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• Reference: 2009/0160-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will the MPS be re-consulting residents and stakeholders about its plans for Wood Green police station?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I was reading in the press yesterday the story that more than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution and that 66 of these cases that were highlighted involved child rape. One of the examples that was given in this article was a woman who had been sexually abused by a 34 year old man between the ages of 13 and 15 years of age and yet he only got a caution. I understand that a caution could mean nothing more than two years on the sex offenders register. So I was wondering, do you know how...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Moving on, can I add to Tony Arbour's point. Of course, your intervention in my constituency in South Camden was most welcome and has been a real fillip to the community down there in South Camden who realised that, with you as Mayor, their issues on street crime will be taken seriously. Can I ask Sir Paul on the question of burglary, in many of our suburban boroughs and particularly in Barnet, we have a huge rise in burglary and I wonder, Sir Paul, what would you say to the resident that I visited over the weekend in Woodside Park...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Another risk to policing in London which appears to be growing is that of dangerous dogs and weapon dogs. Can you just take the opportunity to clarify the Metropolitan Police Service's policy and what is being done about this?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I think Londoners will welcome your condemning Christopher Grayling, Boris, as Chair, because --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you accept that you played your role in misleading the public in terms of what you had to say before you were elected? In fact it seems to me, on reading Sir Ian's [Blair] [former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service] book, that you were willing to say absolutely anything to get yourself elected. I quote him when he said, 'You cannot go on talking down the fall in crime in London which they have achieved, they need to know you care about them and the way that we can work together.' You looked him straight in the face and replied...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I ask, Sir Paul, there has been comment this last week about the use of cautions - I know it is something that you have raised as well - which goes straight to, I think, the confidence in policing. Do you agree with the Director of Public Prosecutions that no offence above the level of common assault should be dealt with by a caution?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I want to pick up on a couple of those issues. Firstly, Mayor, in your manifesto you said that you supported neighbourhood policing and would put the necessary resources into safer neighbourhood teams. We have heard about the concerns about restriction of public finances. I am just wondering are you committed to retaining Safer Neighbourhood Teams in every ward in London?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Good morning, Mr Mayor. My concern here regards confidence in the police. This will tie in with other Members who have mentioned the cautioning. I have statistics here in front of me that were brought to my notice during the [Assembly's] Budget and Performance Monitoring Sub-Committee. I appreciate both the Mayor and also yourself, Commissioner, have mentioned there are still problems that we have to face regarding burglary and also regarding violent crime. What I do have concerns about, and this is relating to the confidence in the police; it says that it has gone up 2% in the last...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

May I say I believe it to be extremely mean-minded of Jennette Arnold to criticise you, Mr Mayor, in acting on behalf of the citizenry of London. I have to say that when you as super-Mayor intervened earlier last week, my heart lifted, and I very much hope that that is going to be an example to Londoners in the future and I very much hope that we do not get prosecutions by police of those good citizens --