Well, that's a very good point. How we got operational in Saskatchewan was by trying to develop a model that is very similar to what a lot of folks would know as a franchise, which can be replicated. So you build your processes and get everything in place, dot your i's and cross your t's, but at lot of this work is about redirecting or having a paradigm shift in your thinking on how you use the lot of money that is in the system.
So as a police chief back then I had to make a committed decision to move some of my resources into this, and that was my commitment. The provincial government came in with $450,000 for each CORs. The provincial government's role was to pay for the brain piece. They paid for an executive director, executive support, and two analysts. With analysts, obviously, what gets measured gets done, and we had one tactical analyst and one analyst trained on social return on investment. Every other agency had to bring in their staff plus $25,000 worth of operating money, which is very, very affordable with the types of budgets we're talking about. But that was a conscious decision that we were going to try to do business differently.
The piece that we're missing is the federal government's role in this. In short, what is the federal government's role in this? We're still trying to flesh that out. There's no question that if you're going to build the right formula you need to have everybody at the table. As we've often heard, there's one taxpayer and the reality is there's also one client that we're trying to deliver these services to. So that seed money, I think, is imperative to shifting how we think. But I don't think this is a money issue, by any stretch of the imagination: it's about trying to look at some things differently.
Let's not mix this up with totally going prevention-intervention.... We all sat around our TVs and watched the unfortunate incident yesterday in Boston. We're not going to arrest our way out of our troubles, but we're not going to stop arresting. There are people, quite frankly, who need to go to jail and we can deal with those. We do a very good job in relation to rehabilitation and recidivism. But what we need to do is that balance piece, in my opinion, that we're doing it collectively all together. As in any business, you leverage results and you increase your gains by multiples.