Thank you very much. I'll answer your last question first. There is more they can do. This is an issue we need to deal with. The bargaining group was, in our case, the Ontario Provincial Police Association. There are some things that we do not need fully trained and equipped police officers to do. Once again, we have to keep the balance and make sure we have critical mass to respond with police officers to big events, and of course, to protest situations. We do get a lot bigger events than we used to.
But there are things, and prisoner escorts are one of those things. Ontario gave us some money some years ago when certain jails were closed in Ontario to do the escorting of prisoners by large vehicles—vans and trucks. Those are special constables. They receive some training and limited equipment. They're not armed and they don't have powers of arrest like normal police officers, and training and investigating crime and all of that. But they perform a very valuable function because otherwise you would have police officers tied up all day moving prisoners from community to community, sitting with them in court, and doing all that sort of thing that we have the special constables doing.
We're going through a process as we speak. Every job that we look at, we need to look at whether a civilian can do it. We used to train just police officers to do everything because only police officers could ever understand IT, or telecommunications or science. We realize that's not right. So we're hiring kids virtually out of university who are experts in this stuff and want a career in that. They don't have to carry guns and do police work. That applies to the special constable area as well.
We need to look at every job. Should it be civilianized? Do they need some powers like a special constable has? Or does it need to be a fully armed and trained police officer? We have to think that way. We traditionally did not.