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I was taking down what he was saying word for word because I knew that I could get a copy of the report later to compare it. They were not putting down anything that he was saying—it was just a matter of ticking boxes.
It would be a great loss if we saw a significant reduction in exchange visits, which is why we are trying to encourage as much flexibility as possible.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on police officers. We have only to look at the exceptional year that we have had with large, mass participation public events, all of which have demanded considerable police resources and flexibility from police officers.
The commission monitors the operation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and have information to give you on how the act is working. The commission also visits people who are subject to compulsion under the act.
Mr Hepburn touched on work capability assessments; there seems to be real fear about them. On a recent visit to the MS Society in Aberdeen, assessment was one of the big issues that kept coming up.
Although it looks as though a 2.6 per cent cash reduction in year 1 will be manageable, comparable reductions in years 2, 3 and 4 will make maintaining police officer numbers impossible.
Even when an indicator is used consistently or reasonably well across the board, it is still difficult to compare performance between local authority areas, because authorities want to measure performance in different ways.