Indeed, Burns believes that confidentiality is at the heart of the issue.
And this morning when he spoke to the media he explained that the BDF Senior Command struggle to deal with issues that are only communicated to them in the vaguest of terms.
Lieutenant Colonel Burns, Acting Chief Of Staff
"The issue comes in when we don't know as the senior leadership that we are being affected in this way or that way, because you call in the counselling unit and they are telling us sir we have problems, but the problems are only given to us in a very generalize sense and so we would say let's apply these or let's make these changes to the sexual assault police and let's tighten up a bit that in some cases allow small talk between a senior officer and a female WBDF or so. But it restricts us if we don't know and so now would want to try and break down some of that confidentiality barrier, because we need to know how far these cases are and to stem the issues that might be posed so that we don't have a recurrence of something like this and from the chief counsellor she is saying that normally if somebody does it, there is like a copycat that would attempt to do the same thing that suffering in similar ways and so we've made some immediate strides to try and insure that this doesn't happen and there are some papers that have been pushed up the chain of command to try and say you need to do this and that and this. It means hiring some new people, it may mean getting rid of some folks from the wellness center so that we can do thing a little bit different to get better results and so I've just been place in charge of the wellness department as part of my job as the chief of staff and so I will be very adamant that we stick to the rules and regulations in that sexual assault police and that in fact we try to stem some of these issues."
