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  • Numbers of Police Officers (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Some police officers within the service are definitely in danger of losing the roles that they do now. They are members of the Metropolitan Police Trafficking Unit whose funding has been stopped by the Home Office; some £2.3 million. We have a motion on the agenda later today asking for support for that unit and I believe it will get cross-party support. Will you, Mr Mayor, make sure the money is available in the budget to carry on the unit's good work? It is £2.3 million, which is not a great amount when you consider the overall budget of the...

  • Safer Transport Initiatives (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Richard Tracey (AM): Can I say that the indications to me from my constituents is that they are absolutely overjoyed by the Safer Transport Teams and the effectiveness that they are having, and well done to the Metropolitan Police Service for providing them. My question is, to what extent are the Safer Transport Teams able to work very closely with the British Transport Police and also to respond to the live CCTV (closed-circuit television) coverage of some of the buses, particularly? The other thing is can you explain to me how many of the teams are equipped with the small...

  • Safer Transport Initiatives (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Whilst there is great rejoicing in my constituency over the TOCU PCSOs, some areas of my constituency, I am thinking for example of the Kentish Town ward, an area of significant crime, there are currently no PCSOs at all, for all sorts of reasons to do with vacancies, sickness and everything else. I suspect this is not the only ward in London in this position. Have we got a problem with PCSO recruitment, or is this a problem reserved for the Camden Town ward of Camden?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    This is to the Chair of the Police Authority. Would you agree with me that the majority of British people feel that Members of Parliament are overly precious and cosseted and that they should be subject to as much scrutiny as anybody else?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Can I ask how often you have been called in shore up leaks in the workings of Government and how often the Metropolitan Police is used for that?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Thank you for the way that you answered John Biggs' question. In light of your answer, will you go away and reflect to see that it is appropriate, and I might have some sentiments about where you think the outcome of things may go, for you or your office to talk to a potential suspect, even though you have nor role at all, but you may have information and be given information in briefings, during a criminal investigation? Will you go away to reflect?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: James Cleverly
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, it is quite clear the implication that a number of members opposite are trying to make in their line of questioning. Rather than dancing around the issue and trying to muddy water, I would like to ask you a very explicit question, which I think is the question that they were trying to ask. Have you shared any operationally sensitive material that you may have received in your capacity as Chair of the MPA with Damian Green MP?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Mr Mayor, I would like to agree with you that this does look a disproportionate use of police powers, albeit within the law. Can I just remind you that they also use other powers disproportionately? If you are gong to perhaps start to look at what powers they have used and whether it is disproportionate, perhaps you will also like to look at the use of Section 60 [of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994], which is entirely beyond what was expected when that law was enacted. I would say it is an abuse of the law that...

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    This is a question for the Acting Commissioner. Acting Commissioner, various of my constituents have reminded me that one of the platforms on which we were elected to the Assembly in May was common sense policing in London. Can I put it to you, would you consider the definition of 'common sense policing' to include the infringement of deeply entrenched centuries old constitutional privileges of a Member of the House of Commons?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    I want to ask on the Baby P inquiry. I should say I am the Assembly Member for Enfield and Haringey. Although I know some of the people involved I have not been involved myself. I am glad to hear, Sir Paul that you said there will be a London-wide review and you have taken some action London wide. It seems to me that some of the things that I have heard about the review so far have been about lack of communication and the same issues that have happened before in other tragic circumstances. Can I just ask, in...