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• 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?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Just taking us back briefly, if I may, to the pressures on the LAS at this time of the year, and obviously the point that was made earlier about drinking and excessive street drinking at this time of the year. In the past I have been fortunate enough to go out with your teams and see the valuable work they did and last week I was out representing the Mayor with the ambulance teams, and again the vast majority of people who had drunk themselves and had been abandoned by their friends and then ended up putting pressure on our...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

I want to come back to the issue of the rate of violent crime and I heard and I have asked questions of the Mayor, I think the last three Mayor’s questions, about what is driving this increase. I would just like to comment on something Andrew Boff [AM] said about domestic violence, undoubtedly part of that is the increase in recorded domestic violence, however I am hearing from my boroughs it is about an increase in reporting, however also about an increase. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): About actual domestic violence, yes. Joanne McCartney AM: Therefore I was wondering...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

I want you to fast forward, OK, because Theresa May [MP, Home Secretary] has promised an inquiry, a judge-led inquiry, into undercover police officers, and supposing it happens in two, three, four years’ time, and you are called as ex-Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for London to give evidence, are you going to be able to give the evidence that they want to hear? For example, will you be able to tell them how many of the four officers that were looked at by the Herne Inquiry [Operation Herne – MPS internal review into use of undercover policing by the...

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

That is really reassuring, Commissioner, because I think trust is really essential for the public and we have had some really recent high-profile cases where we have seen respected celebrities and other public servants jailed, some of them as paedophiles, and their hideous crimes uncovered, and I think with this sort of thing going on it is really important for the public to have absolute trust in the police and their investigations. Mr Mayor, do you think it is right for the MPS to have a compulsory public register of interests, including membership of the freemasons?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Could I ask a few questions now on front desks and contact points? We have seen the closure of three police stations in the residential part of Westminster, that is, north of Oxford Street. That is, the Howe Road in Paddington, Marylebone Station in Seymour Street and St John’s Wood Police Station in New Court Road. Why has there been no front desk replacements, Mr Mayor? Could I ask the Commissioner, has the MPS forgotten that people actually live in Westminster?