Ms Anne Marie McMahon:

They have reduced. However, it is against the backdrop of a lag in recruitment and competing demands with other resources – everything from community policing all the way to the various specialist units we have. There is a requirement for all of those units and we have finite resources. Roads policing, road fatalities and serious injury accidents are a very important part of the focus of our effort. I would not like to give the impression that just because the roads policing units have shrunk somewhat in numbers, that it has in any way lessened our focus and commitment to road safety.