There are two things there, sir. One is that smaller police departments don't have the resources or the internal expertise to do some things. We still have police departments with 10 to 12 officers so they don't have a tactical team or homicide investigators and some of those things. They traditionally turn to the OPP because we are funded, in part, to help them. We would do that at no cost.
But because they're afraid for their future and because some of them are afraid that if they call the OPP it's an admission that they can't do it themselves, they don't call us. They either go without that help or in some cases they've turned to a large department such as Toronto or Peel and asked for their help. Toronto or Peel would never let anyone down. I'm just picking them out of a hat. It could be Ottawa Police or whoever. But they have their own internal financial problems now, so they just can't send people to small communities to help with a homicide investigation.
It's created a fear of big brother, that being the OPP, and they're not going to get the help from their municipal colleagues in other departments, except in an emergency situation. So sometimes they're going without and that's not necessarily fair to the taxpayer nor the right thing to do in terms of officer and public safety.