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• Reference: 2007/0116-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Lambeth and Southwark are unique in South London during 2006/7 for both showing an increase in violent crime in the statistics for the two Borough Police Commands. Why is the case? Do you believe that these units need additional police resources?

• Reference: 2007/0117-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Streatham Police station is substandard as both a workplace for our police officers and staff and as a facility that is visited and used by the public. What plans are there for replacing and improving this station?

• Reference: 2007/0118-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Do you think that there will be a reduction in the violence and intimidation on the streets and estates of south London this year because of multi agency working to combat the abuse and misuse of Fireworks?

• Reference: 2007/0119-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What additional resources will the MPS have at their disposal in order to prepare for and police the Olympics? Will this meet the demands suggested by the Met's risk assessments?

• Reference: 2007/0120-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Why doesn't City Airport make a significant contribution to its own security costs. What discussion is underway on this?

• Reference: 2007/0121-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

How has the operation of the new Licensing Act affected London's Police Service. Could it be improved further?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I have a letter here in my hand from the Leader of Camden Council who is speaking on behalf of Liberal Democratic/Conservative Partnership Administration, and that is what he says in his letter. I am happy to share that with you although I am really in a state of despair about what has happened here. Would you agree that one of the things that made the Croydon Tram Link Scheme happen was that the Conservatives on Croydon Council supported this project all the way through 15 years, up until it happened? That was one of the critical success factors in...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you, Mayor. While the Conservatives on the Assembly were getting very excited and hyperventilating about your trip to Cuba, the Conservatives now involved in the administration of Camden Council were busily undermining the Cross River Tram.

• Reference: 2006/0298-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I am extremely concerned to hear rumours circulating that the Metropolitan Police plans to close Rotherhithe, Camberwell and East Dulwich police stations within the next few years. Is this the case? And do the MPA and MPS understand the great value that local residents place on their local police stations and that shop fronts open only during business hours would not be an acceptable alternative?

• Reference: 2006/0283-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Informal contact with the police, residents and my own experience tells me that there is far more deliberate violence being perpetrated using fireworks this year. I hear that rockets are frequently being fired out of scaffolding tubes like mortars. Has the time come to seek a total ban on the sale of fireworks to the public? What information can you provide?