@Multizone

Multizone are greatly heartened by Chief Inspector O'Connor's call for radical police reform in order to reduce costs whilst maintaining the standards of policing. I know at first hand that he achieved much in this respect during his period as Chief Constable in Surrey - this has been taken further by his successors through initiatives whilst doing national pilots under workforce modernisation initiative

Much of this better cost effectiveness has been by use of an optimum mixture of manpower realignment, taking full advantage of availability of new technology built into mobile phones and better computer based communications systems.

Multizone are continuing to support this thrust by use of the new and emerging tools gaining acceptance in the social media community. This community of interest is now starting to make progress within policing and community safety partners, particularly with regards to overcoming some of the cultural and institutional barriers.

We hope that Dennis O'Connor's comments will further help to make progress in this regard.

James E Smith OBE