The Patten report on the future of the RUC sparked a wave of comment from politicians, police and the people. BBC News Online pulls together the key quotes of the day. I believe that it is possible to find a policing solution to the policing problem but only if you take the politics out of policing. This is not about unionist policing or nationalist policing, it's about policing for all the people in the North of Ireland. Listen to Seamus Mallon.
Nobody wants to see a repackaged version of what was there before.
Listen to Bairbre de Brun. Sensibly implemented, it can help us build the Northern Ireland we all want to see, free from the violence and hatred of the past, a Northern Ireland the children there are proud to inherit.