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I welcome everyone to the second meeting of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing in 2014. I ask everyone to switch off their mobile phones and other electronic devices completely as they interfere with broadcasting even when they are switched to silent. That goes for anyone in the public area as well. No apologies have been received.
While I am talking about the public area, I welcome Mr Derek Penman, who has been in post in Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary for Scotland for two weeks. You have now been named and shamed. I do not doubt that we will see you at the Justice Committee at some point in future.
I advise members and witnesses that we need to conclude this meeting at 2 pm today because business in the chamber is starting early and, as you know, under parliamentary rules, we cannot meet when Parliament is in session.
Item 1 is to agree to take item 3, which is consideration of our next steps in relation to local policing, in private. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
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