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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

I would like initially to thank you, Commissioner, for ensuring that the borough commanders in my part of London were able to, by having a show of strength, prevent any trouble in any of the boroughs which I represent, and I thank him for that. The question I would like to ask is probably one for Kit. One of the few positive things which has come out of this has been the demonstration that it is possible to cut through the red tape which there habitually is in bringing people to justice. The rapidity, swiftness and certainty of punishment has...

• Reference: 2009/0170-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

What provision has the Brigade made for emergency fire cover in the case of industrial dispute, given the removal of military support by Government?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

This is a question for the Commissioner. I do not know if you are aware of this, Commissioner, but on 25 November a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, one Lynne Featherstone, made a 999 call to the Fire Brigade, in which she said there was a terrible noise coming from the boilers in her basement, it sounded a bit like a pneumatic drill but worse. She thought something was going to blow up. The Fire Brigade turned up, punctually, rapidly as it usually does in matters of great emergencies and they discovered that it was an airlock in the central...