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I can tell Mr Rumbles that we did look at other options, and his inquiry is perfectly correct and legitimate, but I am satisfied that the order commands support from the majority of the people who are engaged in fishing and from the wider public.
What role will you play in ensuring that there is engagement with staff? How will you command the confidence of staff and take them with you in implementing what is a very challenging agenda that includes cultural change and the need to make savings?
As a slightly indirect answer to your question, I think that we need to ask which skills we need for the future. Those skills are less about command and control—if that was ever effective—and more about influencing, negotiating and working with a much wider range of partners with different perspectives, cultures and histories.
For example, in Edinburgh, where I was previously the commander, the large custody centre at St Leonards has nurses who are employed full time out of hours and who have access to medical information for people who are, in essence, patients.
Alistair Darling could have been presented with the 10 commandments on the slopes of Mount Sinai and he would have dismissed them, asking whether the commandment to “Honour thy father and mother” includes adoptive parents and saying that we should be told.
In addition, we should write to the Ministry of Defence to ask it to update us both on the investigations that naval command headquarters has carried out and on the MOD’s communications with the Scottish Government on the issue since the minister wrote to the previous secretary of state on 18 March.
Too much of the focus is through the local divisional commander from local policing, so one issue for us is engagement with those specialised services in the local community.
This Parliament established the Police Service of Scotland. However, on taking command of the national force, the chief constable swiftly presided over a rebrand.