Mr. Drew Harris:

I think it is a disciplined force, but it is not helped by its disciplinary procedures, if I could put it like that. Perhaps we need to break the link with a disciplinary code. It has been set out clearly in the commission's report and also by the Charleton tribunal, going right back to the Morris tribunal, that our disciplinary procedures are not fit for purpose. I agree. We need to think far more of having an organisation which, instead of discipline, intervenes to deal with poor performance and intervenes appropriately to provide for supervision, as well as providing support and extra training, such that it is a management, as opposed to a discipline, intervention. In cases of serious misconduct, where trust in an individual is entirely broken, they have no place in the organisation.