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• Reference: 2015/1562
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Is tackling knife crime a priority for the Metropolitan Police Service?

• 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: 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?

• Reference: 2014/1255
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 05 March 2014

Are you satisfied that Safer Neighbourhood Teams are visible, contactable and effective under your new Local Policing Model?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Still, even in what you have just described, you have not mentioned any interaction with the people on the ground ' the businesses ' at this stage. You are talking about consulting the boroughs and consulting other stakeholders. I would have thought that at this stage, you need the information from the people who are going to be looking for the contracts, and who are going to be producing it. I find it quite difficult to get information. If I could, I will address the next bit to Tony (Winterbottom, Executive Director, Regeneration & Development, LDA), rather than you. Tony...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know. I am not saying that you are not going to write wonderful strategy papers saying how marvellously the whole thing will work. What I am actually looking for is for you to talk to people, talk to London companies, and engage in debate with them. It is the same thing; it is the blue-sky thinking, the strategies, but where is the action?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am terribly sorry to interrupt you, but the problem is you are probably not aware that the longer you speak, the less time I have.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know, but you said in a radio interview recently, `We are the Mayor's agency for businesses and jobs in London, and for the first couple of years, we will be doing most of the work in respect of the Olympic Games.' Now, you cannot make a statement like that on the radio in a national radio programme, and then not expect local companies to think that they can ring up us or ring up the LDA and say, `What is the position? How can we get some of these jobs?'

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know he did.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004