It would be very useful for this committee to hear directly from them.
I can speak a little bit about, for example, the one in B.C., which was just started a month ago. They went through a public process of soliciting individuals who could head that organization. They found someone. He's an individual who has a lot of experience in that field. He has worked in Denver and some other places in the United States in a very similar role. He is a civilian with a legal background.
In staffing that organization, clearly they want individuals who can conduct competent investigations. Often, in the current environment, that means you're looking at former police officers. However, I know that in B.C., through the justice training they're doing, and in other jurisdictions, they're trying to train more civilians to conduct investigations, so that when someone joins a body like that they have no previous link whatsoever to a previous police service.
We're not there yet. But I think the goal is to ensure that there is absolutely no potential perception of partiality with respect to these individuals and any background connections they may have, even if they're extremely remote or distant. That is the goal, but we're not there yet in terms of training those individuals with the required skills.