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On the basis of the financial situation that we are in, can Glasgow or Scottish policing afford the Commonwealth games?

Good morning, chief constable. In your opening remarks, you said that more than 50 per cent of staff had responded to the survey. Do you have any data about their views on welfare issues? If not, will the survey be published, and when?

I ask because the submission from ASPS, Suzanne Smith, says that 97 per cent of your members work for more than 40 hours per week. The difference might be that the salary for superintendents and chief superintendents starts at £79,000 and goes up to more than £106,000 a year. Is that a complaint about 97 per cent of your members working for more than 40 hours a week?

That goes back to your point about overtime. With fewer and fewer officers, there will be an expectation—almost an obligation—that people will do overtime, which could add to their stress.

It is that waterfall analogy.

I will not ask about body-worn cameras, but I will just note that, in 2012, Grampian Police was the first force to pilot these cameras, so it is nice to see that, after all these years, they will be returning there, operationally.

David Threadgold, you referred to the Lifelines training. More than 1,000 officers and staff have attended that training, and you talked positively about it. Who provides that training? Towards the end of the Police Scotland submission, it says that it is moving towards having 110 officers and staff in the organisation who can facilitate that training, so it is clearly going to be an on-going thing.

That is confusing me. We have Lifelines, Vivup, a new occupational health contract, TRiM and pilot schemes in different parts of the force, so the picture seems a bit inconsistent—it is a bit of a patchwork quilt.

In England and Wales, there are statutory inquests in such circumstances. My understanding is that none of the eight suicides that we spoke about has been the subject of a fatal accident inquiry and that, in some of those cases, there were potential contributory factors that related to workplace issues. I wonder whether there is a bit of a blind spot in respect of officers who have died in such circumstances. If there is no fatal accident inquiry, such issues could be missed and lessons not learned.

On the issue of under-18s and assault, according to the SPA, it was decided that police cells are no longer appropriate places to keep under-18s. In a recent tragic case, the details of which I will not go into, someone was released from police custody and committed a serious crime. Do you feel that your hands are tied in respect of your inability to hold under-18s when they potentially pose a danger to officers and the public?

Police Scotland remains the only police force in the UK without body-worn cameras, and we have heard that their introduction has been delayed yet again. Does the SPA take any responsibility for that failure?