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For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
If we are heavily involved in an investigation by the time of the December visit, that investigation may also throw up one or two issues that we would like to discuss with the visitors.
Our role is to influence the agenda. Without member ownership or buy-in by the locally elected members who sit on the LGA boards, it is difficult to get European issues on to the agenda.
Increasingly, clerks have to rectify misleading submissions that are made by defence agents and new procurators fiscal. That is just a fact of life for us.
The committee would say that the commissioner should visit Barlinnie jail, Aberdeen prison and the police cells in Pitt Street, or something like that.
I cannot see one advantage to women from the new law that the UK Parliament created instead of protecting women.If you make a law, you are going to put people in jail.