Mr. Drew Harris:

First, the rule of law will prevail. We have to provide a service that protects people, prevents the further growth of organised crime, and, in fact, erodes such crime, but which also deals with the threat that there may be of terrorism as well. We are not sure how Brexit will work out. We are not sure of the drivers that there may be behind any of those issues, but certainly we have identified properly the concerns of the local population and how we should address those. We emphasise that because in many ways people's local concerns about robbery, very bad driving or anti-social behaviour through bad driving, etc. are somewhat missed in the big political debates around Brexit, but those are of concern to us. We will be there for the local communities.

In terms of organised crime and terrorism, we will be watching those very closely. We will be in a position to react should the climate change in terms of the threat posed by either of those, but we are particularly concerned in respect of how organised crime will use the difference in tax tariffs, as I have said, to try to build up revenue. We will work with other partners in respect of that. Two weeks from now, we have the annual cross-Border organised crime conference. That always has a focus on the various forms of criminality that we see right across the island of Ireland, not only smuggling but also other areas of organised crime that we can co-operate on, and not only in the Border area. I am meeting the Chief Constable before that to agree further areas that we can develop. It is incumbent on us at these times of uncertainty to do our utmost to reach out to our neighbouring law enforcement agency to assure to the best of our ability that we are ahead of the game even though we are not quite sure exactly what shape the game will be, which is part of the problem here.