What I would change is the entire way you get promoted. The way you currently get posted into Depot, because it's the quickest and easiest way to get promoted, is that you go into the applied police science program and you teach in that program, and this is sort of your path to promotion.
Teaching at a police college should not be a path for promotion. Teaching at police colleges should be done by professionals, by those who are professionals in matters of criminal law, for instance, and whatnot.
I would encourage you, sir, to sit in on a course. You will see that people literally read PowerPoint decks, people who don't entirely really understand what it is that they are actually teaching about. It becomes a check mark sort of approach to training individuals, as opposed to having professors who can help people paint a much bigger picture.
I always compare it this way. One of the challenges is that we teach them all the tactics, but the problem is that the tactics can bring down the government tomorrow. Somebody might make the right tactical decision on the ground, but it might be a decision that would never be accepted by Canadian society in regard to the way that particular decision, while tactically correct, was actually carried out. I think this is the understanding that's missing—