00:00So I think it is helpful. I actually welcome the Home Secretaries.
00:05I think the Home Secretary has properly taken the ball.
00:10By the horns, these are bold announcements in respect of a reform.
00:15Which to policing is literally decades in the coming.
00:20I think it's a mistake purely to view the announcement through the prism of the amalgamation of...
00:25...forces. But it is certainly true to say that if people imagine...
00:30...that at the moment we have 43 forces, countable to 43 people.
00:35Thus 86 decision makers, all seeking to do the same thing.
00:40In various ways. That by definition is not efficient.
00:45Or effective.
00:46I think that the whole of what has been proposed, however...
00:50...is better viewed through that which happens at the very localised level.
00:54That which happens at...
00:55...at the regional level.
00:56And that which happens then at the national and international level.
01:00And I think when you look at the whole of the white paper proposal...
01:05...across those three levels, you can start to see how those reforms better...
01:10...take effect at each of those levels in turn.
01:13I think it has been a long time.
01:15There is no doubt that major reform brings about complexity of organisation...
01:20...restructuring and all the rest of it.
01:22I don't think that that restructuring will come at the...
01:25...at the expense of continuity.
01:26I think it is the job of those of us in a position of...
01:30...leadership to make it so.
01:31But because these things are difficult, I think...
01:35...a degree of timidity in this space has too often been prevalent.
01:40I applaud the Home Secretary's courage in bringing...
01:45...forward what are bold proposals.
01:47I don't think it before time.
01:49And I think...
01:50...that when we talk in the language of once in a lifetime...
01:53...generational trans...
01:55...transformational change in policing, that is precisely what this is.
02:00And that for me is very exciting and certainly it is due.
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