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Toby Harris (AM): Nobody is having a go.Kit Malthouse (Chairman): Yes, you have. In a censorious way.Toby Harris (AM): This is a very interesting idea which could, conceivably, beextremely effective and you have reported that, in South Dakota - where, as I said, thereare enormous parallels between the communities in South Dakota and in London - thisapparently works extremely well. What we are interested in knowing is what the detailsof this are and how you might turn it into something operational, because I think wewould all welcome a pilot which demonstrated that this was effective.So do not get ratty with people. What we are asking is how are we going to hear more?It will have an implication for the MPA because, clearly, the police would have to be partof this process. What we are asking is when are you going to report back to us on yourprogress in achieving this interesting pilot?Kit Malthouse (Chairman): After Christmas.Toby Harris (AM): After Christmas. Excellent.Jennette Arnold (AM): Chair?John Biggs (AM): Which Christmas?Jennette Arnold (AM): Just to follow up. I think many of us were listening in andheard this and thought you were talking as the Chairman of the MPA. This is thedifficulty; we never know which hat you are wearing unless we can see you I suppose.What I picked up was, when you talked about the centre, I assumed you were talkingabout police stations. Are you saying you are not talking about police stations because, ifyou are not, clearly I look forward to the pilots and I would have thought it wassomething that you could get buy in for? It was to be done at police stations, I would askyou to go round to every police station. I do not know what it is like in your neck of thewoods at the front desk but there is hardly and standing room at some of the front desksthat I frequent on a regular basis and have to phone up beforehand to say that I amcoming in. Can you give us that assurance, if you are going to be looking to do this sortof thing in police stations, that you will make sure that a proper survey is done in terms ofthe impact on the current service.I have got a number of issues. Shall I put them all to you and then you can come back tome?James Cleverly (AM): Chairman, if this is not an MPA proposal we should not reallybe taking up MPA time discussing it.www.merrillcorp.com10