Mr. Drew Harris:

For me, the Policing Authority is an organisation which provides for accountability to the public. Accountability is essential in modern policing in that it keeps us sharp, but it also promotes public confidence in the organisation and fulfils an essential and important role. I appeared in public in front of it four or five weeks ago. It was a three-hour grilling which certainly sharpened me up. I will be there again on Thursday. It is good. It is what it is supposed to do in holding me and my senior staff to account for performance. The commission has considered the issue and made its recommendation which is for the Government to consider. I do not really want to get drawn into that debate.