and we are really excited today about the launch of our -- facebook live participants, i'm david stephenson with the san francisco police department. we're very proud to welcome you here today to show off our new website, san francisco police dot org. this has been in the works for a year and a half. we got down to the probably executive with a lot of feedback and input from the community, the people we serve. we're really thrilled about it. we want to walk you through it today. first, i want to introduce the folks who are going to do that. joining me first is police chief william scott. welcome here. >> thank you, david. thank you. and we are really excited today about the launch much our new website. as you said, a year and a half in the making. it is really stems from our department of justice elaborate reform work. when we looked at the website in 2016, some said it wasn't as user friendly as we would like. it was cumbersome to find material. data was a little bit hard to get to. this is leaps and bounds beyond our old website. like i said, a year and a half in the making. a lot of work

andrew stephenson. daviddely seen as having led to changes in our behaviour as consumers, particularly when it comes to single—use plastic items. politicians are changing their behaviour, too, with the government planning to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers. almost 5 billion plastic straws are used each year in england. details of the ban are due to be published shortly. in the lords, ministers were urged to do more. we know, and the minister will be fully aware, of the statistics about the dangers to marine life, the thousands of years it takes for plastic to degrade and plastic has been found north and south on this planet from the arctic to the antarctic. surely, we require more drastic action than that. could we develop a clear, visible kite mark on all packaging to indicate whether it contains plastic or not and whether it meets standards? a mark agreed to by industry? and secondly, what about an annual award to industry? without his permission, i'd love to call the award the david attenborou