Absolutely. Reflecting what the 10-year policing 2026 strategy says, I recognise that there is a public expectation that, in modernising and transforming itself, the police service should utilise technology. However, as I said, that must be balanced against the need to respect human rights and privacy.
Police Scotland has been on a journey, in the course of which we have worked on a number of other areas of technological development, and we have taken some learning from that. We need to have a wider debate on policy and what the public expects and would consent to, so that what we do is legitimate. Ms Brown mentioned the use of independent ethics panels, and we are setting up a framework for data ethics, which is a more nuanced aspect of the issue. Within that framework, we will consider what our approach should be to the use of data and taking a more holistic approach so that we can comply with any legislation.
I come back to the fact that the first step is to have the right approach. We will have a legislative framework in place, whereby the Scottish biometrics commissioner, whoever that might be, will lead the public debate, and Police Scotland will need to be fully involved in that.