Obviously many of the areas that we police are very small, rural communities, so we try to centralize such programs into the bigger centres. Obviously if we could at every major city.... I know a lot of the municipal police agencies have that. Any time we get something like this gang intervention and exiting team, we share it with all the divisions across the country so they can, in fact.... Maybe they can't do a full-blown type program like what's being done in the Lower Mainland, but they can take parts of it and work with that inter-agency approach because it's much better when we work with the other agencies such as education, health, housing and social services. That inter-agency approach through a hub model is much more effective.
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