These days, Spearn heads his department's organized crime task force, and in his spare time travels across Canada talking about how police can get on board with harm reduction policies. He came to Philadelphia at the behest of the Public Health Department, which has been holding informational meetings around the city about its plan, announced earlier this year, to sanction a safe injection site. It was Spearn's first time speaking about these sites in the United States, where the concept is controversial.