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Speaker Darryl Plecas’s chief of staff is on an extensive road trip to collect security-related information from other cities in Canada and the U.S., but Liberal house leader Mary Polak says the B.C. legislature doesn’t know the destinations of the trip or how much it will cost.

“I am doing a multi jurisdictional forward-looking review that has been in the works for quite some time with the speaker, acting clerk and chief financial officer,” Alan Mullen said Monday in text messages to Postmedia.

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“It is looking at … security policies and procedures.”

Mullen said he has already left on his journey, which involves driving not flying, and could not speak by phone.

“The itinerary and cost analysis was done long ago and am meeting with lots of different clerks, sergeant-at-arms, directors, police chiefs etc. Driving and giving up my summer is the cheapest way to do so and will greatly benefit the B.C. legislature.”