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• Reference: 2012/0016-2
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Turning to resources, I know recently you have written to the Chair with an update on your thoughts around PCSO numbers and improvement and that letter has been copied to us, so thank you for that.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): I have been looking at this card, and I have to say I am not sure I agree with you, Kit, that people do not expect criminals to be caught. I seem to recall Kit Malthouse (Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime): They do. Tony Arbour (AM): the saintly Sir Robert Peel [Home Secretary who established the Metropolitan Police Force in the 1820s], when he put down the things of people being caught and brought to justice; no mention of that on the card. The key thing about this card which I note is that it says...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

James Cleverly (AM): Following up from Victoria's questions about particularly young victims of crime and their confidence in policing, and I do not want to go crashing into one of the issues we have later on, but we are going to be touching a little bit on disproportionality. From memory, from the feedback we get from the sectors of the community who are least confident interacting with the police, the young tend to be less confident than the older generation. Black and other ethnic minorities tend to be less confident than the white population. Specifically with young, potentially black victims...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): On the specific point which John raised with you relating to the legal cost, are you telling us that it is possible that Lord Blair, Lord Stevens and other former luminaries at the top of the Metropolitan Police Service, we have paid to give them legal advice before they have gone to Leveson?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

I accept what you are trying to say, or trying to say to us, but I think, in terms of business management - and I do not claim to be a business management expert but it just seems to me common sense - that one man, as managing director, should focus on specific things. Now can I just tell you - you probably know this - from a curriculum vitae from yesterday's seminar upstairs about buses, Mr Brown is said to be in charge of London buses, Public Carriage Office, Dial-a-Ride, Victoria Coach Station, TfL Piers and TfL's corporate interests...

• Reference: 2009/0125-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will the Mayor and the Commissioner please update Members on the progress of Met Forward since it was approved in April this year?

• Reference: 2009/0132-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

The increase in homophobic attacks, including a recent murder in Trafalgar Square, is a worrying trend in London. What is the Metropolitan Police Service doing to counter such hate crimes?

• Reference: 2009/0133-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

There has been a significant increase in burglaries across London. What has been the increase by Borough this year and what will the Metropolitan Police be doing to reduce burglaries, especially in suburban boroughs like Barnet?

• 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?