It concludes that while the NWCR has identified its own shortcomings and factors affecting performance, ORR still plans to instruct the Region to set out its own improvement plans with time-bound milestones.

Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.

Police authorities are similarly aware that motor cars and wireless and infra-red photography and photo-telegraphy will not avail in the crime war without the familiar, slow-moving beatsman as the broad base of the whole organisation.

When the reduction is drawn out over many months, several major restaffings of the same division may occur, each such restaffing requiring training and retraining, preparation of new job descriptions, adjustment of records, etc.