Mr. Peter Whelan:

In its review, Grant Thornton did a benchmarking exercise with similar agencies in other jurisdictions. Those agencies' investigators have two to six cases per investigator. The review recommended that GSOC would have ten cases per investigator. At the moment, we have approximately 20 cases per investigator. That crude figure alone suggests we need to double the number of investigators we have. At the moment, we have 29 investigators and one investigator who is acting up and they are supported by nine assistant investigating officers. We do not have the capacity to do the level of work required in a more timely manner.