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Alcohol is definitely a feature in offending behaviour. For many people coming into custody, there might be a need for medical detoxification on admission.
Whether the board is moving at a pace that is sustainable and will enable the desired impact is an important question and one on which the project board will want to satisfy itself and its many stakeholders. I appreciate that there will be a call for urgency in many quarters.
We arrived at wanting to campaign for a commissioner partly because many good strategies and many good laws—lots of different initiatives—have failed to make the kind of impact that we want.