I want to go back to a time when I was very young, when you expected the police to be part of the community and the community to be part of policing.

If anyone... seriously believes that a further exponential rise in the prison population for short-term prisoners and first-time offenders is the way to ensure our safety then they are sorely deluded.

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

We believe that if the 911 caller hadn't called at that time, and the police hadn't arrived when they did, that the third child would have been dead also,

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.