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• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

My question is for the Mayor. At Mayor’s Question Time a couple of weeks ago I raised with you the intended far-right demonstration planned for July in Golders Green. You said you would investigate it but were reluctant to stop it due to free speech. On Monday this week I sent you a link to their website advertising the event which reads like the Nazi’s Der Stürmer newspaper with cartoons, caricatures and anti-Semitic libels. It is nothing to do with free speech but clearly designed to incite race hatred against the Jews. I have a copy of the website here...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, you and I have sat in this horseshoe now for just over seven years. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has been historic. Kit Malthouse AM MP: During that time, the conversation and the questions from the other parties have never changed. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has deteriorated. Kit Malthouse AM MP: It has always been, “You are cutting. It is a disaster. Things are going to get worse”, yet crime and the budget have inexorably fallen, together, in parallel. Do you think your victory in 2012 and the Government’s victory not a few...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Sir Bernard, I welcome the comments that were reported about your views on fitness standards within the MPS and policing in general. As someone who has to take an annual fitness test for the Reserve Forces twice a year, which I still find quite amusing, I welcome those. Allied to that and linked to overall policing numbers and policing output from those numbers, the number of officers on long-term sick and restricted duties is still significant. Will you also apply the attitude that you have taken around fitness standards to those officers who - perhaps through no fault of their...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Mayor and comes back to TfL property strategy, which Richard Tracey and the Commissioner’s exchange alluded to quite extensively. It showed that the Commissioner had some understanding of the costs and benefits of managing MOPAC’s property assets. I want to know, Mr Mayor. To what extent are you conscious of the benefits of outright sales now or incurring an income from some of the assets the MPS and MOPAC still has in the property portfolio.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

The review of rape services that you alluded to earlier, Commissioner, highlighted the importance of ISVAs to counselling those victims of rape and sexual assault. Are you committed to seeing an increase in the number of ISVAs?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Commissioner, during the last year there were 1,000 incidences when patients were transferred to the hospital using police cars. Do you see this as an increasing trend?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

While we are talking about the 21st century and taking things forward, I would like to bring your attention to the residents of Knightsbridge, particularly, in central London, who are suffering from the people who drive amazing supercars that make the residents’ lives hell. I do not know, Mr Mayor, if you would like to join with me in raising this concern with the Commissioner. Some of these cars are, of course, without insurance. They get shipped in at quite significant cost. They drive around the streets at 2 o’clock and 3 o’clock in the morning, racing through the streets...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Commissioner, I was quite surprised to read in The Times yesterday some comments you had made about not being able to track people on iPhones. It was particularly relating to Uber, where they can track somebody who calls up for a cab. It is rather strange given what we see on American television and police that you in the MPS do not seem to be able to track anybody who has called in on a phone where it might be very, very helpful if they are in some danger.

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

Thank you, Mr Mayor. I mean you will forgive us for concentrating on this particular area because our job as Assembly Members is to see where it is going wrong, not where it is often going right. While the decline in overall reported crime is welcome, it is disturbing that we have these particular categories increasing. I wondered if you would be supportive of the recommendations in a report published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) Conservatives in June called On the Wagon , whereby we wanted to see a doubling of the penalty notice for drunk and disorderly behaviour...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

A couple of very specific questions here around violent crime in London. Recorded knife crime with injury offences has gone up 51% in the last six months. We have had some terrible recent incidents across London. Given the success of the London-wide firearms amnesty last month, and this current hike in knife offences, would you consider launching a similar amnesty for knives in London?