To date, the unit has resulted in 546 arrests, 4,033 charges laid, and more than $1.6 million in stolen merchandise linked to investigations. He spoke of the need for multiple organizations to work together to combat this crime, which he and police argue is being used to fund further organized crime. Real progress requires all of us doing this together … treating organized retail crime with the seriousness that it demands." He added: "What Canada needs now is consistency; consistent enforcement, consistent prosecution, which is critical, and consistent use of our criminal code, tools that are already available to meaningfully disrupt organized retail crime networks." "Ontario needs to move beyond individual, jurisdiction-led responses," Rodrigues said, and called for "a provincially funded joint force operation dedicated to retail crime."