- The range of Members’ legitimate perspectives when discharging their different roles and responsibilities and the potential for contact between Officers and Members in a variety of circumstances, creates a variety of situations that have the potential to cause both groups difficulties. There are three principal sources of conflict:
(i) Actual or apparent failure by Officers to act in accordance with the principle of political neutrality;
(ii) Unreasonable pressure by Members on Officers;
(iii) Blurring of Officers’ and Members’ public and private roles.
