Mr. Mark Toland:

I must be careful not to compromise tactics. The national support units deal with issues like drugs and fraud and within those units there are a number of operational units that have their own intelligence unit, sometimes within the same building. There are economies of scale and efficiencies to be made and a better way to manage intelligence within national support services would be to have a single intelligence unit. Sitting above that, we could have another intelligence unit that would manage the more sensitive issues and security information.

At the level we are talking, which concerns operational investigations into drug smuggling and such issues, we suggest one unit would service those operational units far better and reduce the risk of two operational units looking at the same person and not knowing they were covering the same target. Our recommendations are to stop those kinds of things from happening.