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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Commissioner, Mr Mayor, a variety of questions from me. First of all, just on the FGM one, do you have any sense of the level of resources that are currently applied to this particular issue, how many officers, is there a team of 20 or 200?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

OK, the other area I wanted to ask you about was the horse, the mounted units, an area I know that is close to your heart. There has been some research recently about the effectiveness of mounted police officers, both in visibility and in terms of enforcement. In effectiveness, I do not know if you have seen the hilarious video of a motorcyclist just on London Wall, I think doing a wheelie, being stopped by a mounted police officer very effectively and dealt with. What are the plans for the mounted units going forward?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Then I just wanted to clarify the situation on Westminster and police stations, since Murad [Qureshi] raised it. My understanding is that Westminster will be like a Belgravia, West End Central and Paddington Green, is that right? Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM (Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis): Sorry? Kit Malthouse AM: The City of Westminster will have three stations in the plan, which is Belgravia, West End Central and Paddington Green, will remain.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Sir Bernard, in your long and distinguished career, has there been any crime type, the statistics of which have followed a linear progression, either up or down, or has it always been two steps forward, one step back?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Commissioner, is the Metropolitan Police planning any more days of action to help tackle knife crime following the success of Operation Big Wing?

• 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...