A bishop has rejected accusations that the Catholic Church has not done enough to encourage young Catholics to join the police in Northern Ireland.
PSNI senior director of human resources Joe Stewart said the Church needed to go further than just supporting the new policing arrangements.
He told the Irish News on Friday: "I think more could be done. If you look at Patten, he talks very much about the community as a whole, and Church leaders particularly, encouraging people to pursue careers in the police service.
"It still seems to be a more acceptable career within the Protestant community, and not within the Catholic community, and that is down to people who have got influence in society to change that."
However, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor Donal McKeown said it was up to politicians to make the PSNI more attractive to all sections of the community.
"We expect our political parties to sort out arrangements here to ensure that we can all live in peace and tranquility and we are not going to be used as a weapon in an essentially political argument.
"We expect our politicians to deliver but we are not going to be used by anybody to ensure that the argument comes out on one side or the other," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback on Friday.
The Catholic Church gave its backing to a revised plan for implementing police reform in Northern Ireland.