Member

Under a Government who oversaw a decrease of 1,200 officers in their first year, resources should not be delineated or restricted to the training and provision of officers for solely community-based duties. Those duties should come hand in hand with being a police officer; they are at its very heart. If they are not being exercised then we are faced with a cultural and organisational issue, rather than a legislative one. Government-mandated teams should not be necessary. Community-oriented officers should be the norm. The real solution is to hire and train more regular officers, whose roles would include helping with neighbourhood issues.