1.16 Effective mobile communications are crucial to successful police work. Having outsourced its radio functions, the police risk losing their current skills and knowledge in this field. This puts a greater onus on PITO to provide technical assistance in future procurements. PITO is building up its own independent radio engineering section with this need in mind. While the police forces will remain experts in what they want from their communications systems, it is unlikely that most forces will, in future, have the technical capability to procure new systems individually.