Mr. John Twomey:

The prosecution of offenders rests at the local, district and divisional levels. Earlier we referred to previous reports and PULSE being an instant recording process. The line of sight of people at various different levels was not what it should have been. A superintendent, for example, did not have a view of all of the prosecutions. We are talking big numbers in this context: hundreds of thousands. That was one of the key weaknesses of the system at that particular time. This fed into the issue we are dealing with here. PULSE 6.8 was such a change because it began to provide supervisors at all levels with the information they required to fulfil their roles and obligations with regard to governance. While we have policy makers at the centre, the people with responsibility were at district and divisional level. These cases - and we see some 158,000 cases now - were only since the IT system was brought to bear. It was only at the end of 2015 that we provided the facility for people at district and divisional levels to have oversight and proper governance of it. There has been considerable change and improvement. We have also enhanced the role of the national bureau to provide a specific resource for governance on a national level. They are the critical changes that have been brought into it now.