I believe that what has been broadly described as the social work aspect of policing is an important and vital part, but it should not be the predominant role that police officers play. We have been forced to take on more and more of this role, because structurally, the way we line up with other service providers—public health and public education are two quick examples—we are not in really good formal partnerships.
Our mobile crisis intervention team is a better example of how we could be, functionally, working together better. The police could do more of what they're really good at, which is policing, and public health could do more of what they're good at, which is public health interventions. That's a better example of how we could and should be doing business, but we can and should be doing that in terms of guns and gangs operations. We can and should be doing that in terms of cyberbullying. We can and should be doing that in terms of preventing radicalization and extremists within our communities across Canada.
So I think there is a role for us in social service provision, but we can do it better if we do it in better coordination with those other social service providers.