The Department’s former CDDTO commented that the Department had added complexity to the NLEDS programme by trying to bring together the PNC and the PND into a single service. It had not understood the complexity of bringing that data together. In 2018, prior to the first reset and when she had still been in the Department, she and the former SRO had looked at the option of just focusing on the PNC, but at the time had 46 C&AG’s Report, para 16 47 Qq 27, 28 48 C&AG’s Report, paras 1.5, 1.6 49 C&AG’s Report, para 7 50 C&AG’s Report, para 2.21, Figure 5 51 C&AG’s Report, paras 2.24, 3.10, 3.11 16 The National Law Enforcement Data Programme not managed to get police forces on board with that approach.52 She commented that separating the PND and the PNC had significantly reduced the complexity of what the Department had to do and given it a much clearer development path.53