What was not clear was just how much involvement was planned for the private sector in policing matters, he said.
He added there were real "opportunities" to "capitalise on the good will" of local people and organisations, while making sure private hire of policing, sponsorship and donations remain transparent.
On Monday, he told the BBC he was responsible for the European operations of the organisation and said the organisation supported greater involvement of the private and third sectors in policing.
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Now Mr West, the former chief constable of West Mercia police and director of Policing For All, a private company which advises on police reform, has questioned the role of the PCP.
That would mean the disarmament of paramilitaries would go hand in hand with the eventual disarmament of policing, and a curb on private legally-held guns.
Then as luck would have it, just when we were doing research, the private security guards, who are responsible for policing the trains and the stations, went on strike.
The president-elect of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, Irene Curtis, has told me that while "outsourcing of policing services has been done by the private sector for years", she's concerned as to "where the line is drawn with core police services and where those services are provided by a company that is not under the complete control of the chief constable".
Ten years later, a private prosecution failed to secure convictions against two officers who led the policing operation.
Front-line policing in Avon and Somerset could not be done better by a private company and would be a step too far, its chief constable has said.
Mr Johnston's commitments included reducing crime and anti-social disorder, to find solutions to local problems, place a greater focus on the needs of victims rather than offenders and ensure core policing functions continued to be carried out by police rather than the private sector.
To be shocked by the police use of private companies, as outlined in the contracts being considered by West Midlands and Surrey, implies ignorance of the enormous changes in the way policing has become a partnership service with other agencies, including the private sector, over the past decade or two.
As part of my contribution to today's hearing, I wanted to emphasize some of the private sector arguments for companies to implement new security-minded due diligence procedures that bring a self-policing dimension to their activities in a way that mitigates the valid risks involved.
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