Mr. Michael O'Sullivan:

I would reiterate what the acting Commissioner said. On our site visits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Police Scotland, Essex Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we asked them all the same question as to how they ensure the checkpoints are done. The answer is supervision. It is glaringly apparent to me and from the report that supervision was absent across all the divisions in respect of MAT/MIT checkpoints. How do we know they were done? We would have to go back to Deputy O'Callaghan's question. Do we look at 502 checkpoints, go through them and listen to the recordings of the phone calls? That would take 21 years. The answer is supervision. There must be adequate supervision and sergeants available at front-line level in the traffic corps and in districts, stations and divisions to supervise the checkpoints. That is how it is done in other jurisdictions.