Mr. Joseph Nugent:

I guess a lot of our effort has naturally been focused on the large intake of staff and members that is occurring at the moment and the major system deployment we must roll out. That is where the priority of our budget has had to focus. It has been around the commitments we made in our policing plan and our commitments under the police service of the future. Notwithstanding that, there are continuous professional development arrangements in place in all divisions around the country. There are schools and staff in place where the kind of training described by the Deputy is delivered. Clearly, we can do more and that is something on which we will keep an eye over the coming period.

We expect to advertise for the position of an expert director in learning and development very shortly, to pull some of those threads together and assist us in looking at what the norm is in industry in delivering that type of training. We will learn many lessons from that.