You could call it a pilot project, but it's broader than that. We're bringing people to the table, such as non-traditional groups who we're interacting with on a broader basis. We're seeing that we're all dealing with the same people. If you talk to the ambulance drivers and the emergency service people at the hospitals and the shelters, it's all the very same people. We can all refer to them by name; our front-line police officers can refer to these people. We all know who they are, and they're cycled through the system time and time again.
For example, we arrest the same person two and three times per night. We take them to the hospital, they're treated and released from the hospital, and they show up again. That's not a way to treat our most vulnerable people in society. There's a better way to do that, and we found a better way to do that. We know there are gaps in the system. We're working with provincial, federal, and municipal governments as well as with our partners in social agencies to find where those gaps are. We're trying to identify those gaps, figure out a way to plug the gaps, and work collaboratively to get these people to a better place.
The benefit to policing is, quite frankly, that we save considerable man hours by not doing the sorts of things we were doing before—for example, sitting around and waiting for somebody to deal with the problem, or responding to the same call over and over again. Huge efficiencies can be found there. It's a short-term investment and it will have long-term gains. All our partners are seeing this, and they're excited about it. It's not only a better way to treat our most vulnerable, but we're going to save huge amounts of money because of the integration and cooperation, the working together.