Ms Orla McPartlin:

No. It is more to do with the classification in that if something started off as a serious assault, for example, and the person died subsequently, the senior investigating officer may not have upgraded it. While the investigation into the death was carried out to a finality and went to court, the officer may not have updated the court outcomes at the end. We had a PULSE upgrade in October 2015 which addressed some of those matters in advance of the new management investigation system coming on stream later this year whereby members' investigative actions can be recorded on PULSE. Even though PULSE probably was not set up to record data like that, it does so now and has increased that. For example, regarding those commonalities, we would have made a recommendation, which has already gone to the college, that people on senior investigating officer courses would be told of the importance of updating actions and the classification of a particular crime as they go along through the investigation. That is the sort of thing we are talking about.