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Work has started on setting up the structures for that to happen, and we have also started the pilots, which are looking at the technologies, behaviours and management regime that might work.
Someone might say that mental health issues are involved—this really irritates me—and somebody in the group will ask, “What exactly do you mean? What illness? What behaviour does it produce? How does it affect the parenting?”
Ultimately, research has shown that tackling an offender’s behaviour involves a number of things, including finding them a house, finding them a job and getting them established in a stable relationship.
There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that if the allegations—again, I stress the word “allegations”—are proved to be correct, that will represent behaviour that I find completely unacceptable.
Basically, the police said that it is very difficult to establish what “drunk” means and who was responsible for selling alcohol to a person who was involved in antisocial behaviour or a public display of drunkenness afterwards.
When I was in Uganda, I watched a football match between local children who all wore Scotland strips that Scotland’s captain, Darren Fletcher, had donated.