I've been involved in this issue for about four or five years, and if you ask five other people involved in this issue you might get six different opinions about what that actually means. It ultimately ends up being a discussion of costs in many cases. But more broadly, it touches on all aspects of policing. So it's about the evolution and sustainability of policing. It's not just what's happening within the sector itself; it's public perceptions of what is happening. When you look at police costs rising and crime going down, with the public increasingly aware of that and other fiscal pressures in health and education, you have a different public dynamic emerging with respect to policing. That's part of the debate as well.
On June 7th, 2012. See this statement in context.