Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I can't really talk about decisions around the reductions and the amounts and that sort of thing. It's not within the realm of the organization, other than how we respond to it. I would like to comment, however, on some of the pre

Public Safety committee  I wish.

Public Safety committee  I have 37 years.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I would very much say so.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I remember models similar to that.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do.

Public Safety committee  That's a fair assessment.

Public Safety committee  Yes, and you raise a very good point. If you'll just hear me for a moment, one of the strategies we're using to deal with that—which is why I was speaking about the call management piece—is to put officers in these call centres to call back citizens on some of these complaints an

Public Safety committee  Well, as an example, if you consider a municipality as an example.... We'll take the car theft case. What happens in a lot of car theft cases is that sometimes it's organized groups that are stealing cars for a purpose: to strip them, sell parts, or actually send the cars to othe

Public Safety committee  Well, I'm sure that in every case it made sense. The issue is, in the collective, were there other options? I think that's the challenge for modern police leaders.

Public Safety committee  To be honest, I couldn't tell you what the position is across Canada. There has been a fair amount of growth.

Public Safety committee  Well, I think the obvious way of doing that would be to reach out to the many police services. If you concentrate on police services of more than 50, I think there are something like 82 or 84 in the country that would meet that test, so that would be a good place to start.

Public Safety committee  Well, I think the police services would be able to tell the researchers how many of their staff are front-line staff.

Public Safety committee  Well, Statistics Canada collects a great deal of data relative to policing resources in Canada: costs, criminal measures, crime rates, crime severity indexes, and so on. We may in fact have the data. I guess my point earlier, when I raised the point on data, was that we need to

Public Safety committee  Do you mean specifically with regard to training?