Mr. Alan Todd:

The concern hub structure is the partnership piece I have been talking about throughout the meeting. "Concern hub" was the original title whereas partnership hubs are what it has migrated to. That is the concept. Assistant Commissioner Leahy talked about, for example, the role of the office of the District Court in co-ordinating and tasking. I would like to see the concern hubs become that on a daily basis for the partnerships, whereby the partners are tasking what is required in response to the needs of the community, and the police would just feed into that as a service delivery structure. At the moment, while the concern hubs and partnership hubs have staff from the agencies, they are only meeting formally once a week or once a fortnight. I would like to see that being much more dynamic, driving the daily business much more, and actually coming together as a partnership. One could take any range of partners and put them at these microphones this morning and they would have a similar conversation about the stresses and strains, the resources and the increasing demands. However, there is a synergy from us all getting involved in this and helping each other solve what are actually the problems of all. If it sounds as if I am being critical of partners, which includes ourselves as well, to the extent that we have not cracked this in terms of the synergies and benefits we could have from better partnership work.