Mr. Alan Todd:

Yes. That is not an exaggeration based on one particularly bad day but is, rather, a recurrent theme. Most of those interventions involve people threatening self-harm, suicide or to harm family members, which may be caused by mental health issues, drug or substance abuse or a combination thereof. The armed response units were not originally set up to deal with such situations but they now do so and are highly trained for it. It is a more comprehensive response by our organisation for those units to take responsibility for such situations because they have far more training and have access to more equipment and less-than-lethal options to deploy in such situations than ordinary police officers. If such resources were not available, there would be an inevitable increase in tragic outcomes in such situations.