Yes, sure. What the chief is talking about are our child exploitation units and traffic reconstruction units. They're people who see the really, really tough stuff all the time. We also do psychological screening prior to applicants being accepted into the RCMP.
One of the blind spots that I think a lot of organizations have is that there's not a lot known about how certain individuals obtain an operational stress injury. Some people do; some people don't. Some people went through horrific incidents in the wars, for example, and came back and didn't exhibit any signs or symptoms of that. There's a lot that is still being learned about this. There's a lot of research that needs to be done that is police-specific.
Among the things that we know can assist are things like debriefings after a critical incident: after a police shooting, whether there is a police-initiated shooting or a police officer is injured; after a horrific traffic accident; or if there is a major file that has a lot of potential to do psychological damage, meaning that it's a very emotionally tough file. We can do a debriefing.
It's not necessarily an in-depth psychological intervention. It is an opportunity for a like-minded group of individuals, a homogenous group, who have all been through the same thing, to get together to discuss certain aspects of what went on, notwithstanding the fact that there may be a criminal investigation or some other kind of investigation. It's not to go over facts. It's to go over the incident and the emotional reaction; it's not a play-by-play of what you did versus what I did for a criminal process.