There are a few things here and I thank you. The legislation that you mentioned would be hugely beneficial to freeing up the time of officers, particularly lawful access. We already talked about that, but also legislation around random breath testing, or RBT. If that could be brought on I will tell you that the amount of time spent on impaired driving would be cut by probably 70% with RBT, and it would drop court time. Court time is a huge cost of policing.
Secondly, on the technology side, we have what we call our intelligence-led software. It's Palantir, a company out of the U.S. that built this new software project for Homeland Security. It does an amazing job of not only accessing instantaneously your vast pools of data but analyzing the data. It's going to save not only resources on analysts' time, but it will also allow our officers to do a better job on investigations.
I want to talk a bit about body cams. We have in-car cameras, but body cams on the pilot project. We have saved time, not only with professional standards investigations because the videos are right there but also in pre-charge, pre-court appearance resolution, because when you can show the defence lawyer what this idiot was actually doing instead of what he said he was doing, it frequently results in, “I'm not going to court”.
Of course, there are the crime management strategies that have been implemented district-wide in Calgary. These are about analyzing the data and focusing your resources for maximum effect.