Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Through you to the witness, thank you for attending today.
I'm very interested in the training, and in the training through the new modules. Some of us who have been out of the business for quite some time saw the introduction of that, and the benefit of it.
I wonder if you could talk about the regulatory regime around training. A great deal of the police training, at least as far as I can recall, was mandated because of coroner's inquests, because of inadequacies found in policing and the need to bring officers.... I think of this particularly with regard to pepper spray, the proper use of the ASP.
I wonder if you could talk about some of the reasons why. I know that continues on today, with a scheduling nightmare around what the OPP refer to as “block training”.
For those who may want to know, that's when you take an officer out of the detachment and they go through intensive training once a year for four days.
I wonder if you could you talk about that, and about the ability of smaller police forces to provide the same quality and quantity of training as opposed to some of the larger forces that you talked about.