- guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 7 2008 13.58 GMT
· Use of mobile technology to reduce the paperwork burden for "stop and search"
· Civilian staff to take over more tasks carried out by fully-trained police officers
· Reduce the number of criminal offences which need to be comprehensively recorded
· Create more local democratic accountability
· Home office should review activity based costing with a view to replacing it with a scheme which encourages productivity
· Government to facilitate voluntary merger between police authorities where there is a sound business case
· Chief constables to take an "entrepreneurial approach" to policing
· The government should examine the role of risk within the police service and begin a national debate on risk aversion and culture change at a central government level
