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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Occasionally we have a lively exchange but let us keep to matters of professional interest here. What insights did the report give you when it described you as being too confrontational? What did you take away from that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

I am not down to speak but I am just intrigued how you reconcile your rather bombastic style as Chair with the need for you to preside over a fire authority which is multi-party and which no party will have a majority and, therefore, you need to rule through a consensus? Do you lie awake at night thinking about this? I am sure you do not.

• Reference: 2003/0357
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Do you believe that having the Mayor direct the work of borough commanders would: 1) Improve local accountability or 2) Improve local policing? .

• Reference: 2003/0377
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Which issue raised in the Green paper on policing do you believe have already been addressed by the MPS and MPA? .

• Reference: 2003/0382
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

How many MPS officers and civilian staff are deployed at airports and ports .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I wanted to give either the Commissioner or the Chair an opportunity perhaps to amend a false impression that has been created in the media recently that the police are in some way opposed to traffic calming. Certainly my post-bag tells me that this is an issue that people are very anxious about in the community; I think Jenny is absolutely right about that. Secondly, where boroughs seem in my view to be ill-advisedly removing traffic calming, might the police take a view as to whether those boroughs are being unhelpful in their role of protecting public safety.

• Reference: 2002/0170-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Has the MPA made any progress on the issues raised at the special meeting of the authority held in January to discuss deaths in custody? What if any discussions have been held since then? .

• Reference: 2002/0171-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you provide figures for each of the following for the last financial year: 1.The number of Metropolitan police officers assaulted while on duty? 2.The number of MPS traffic wardens assaulted on duty? 3.The number of Metropolitan police officers accidentally injured on duty? 4.The number of accidents involving police cars and where these occur? .

• Reference: 2002/0172-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Is Barking and Dagenham likely to get a new police station sometime in the near future? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I have a feeling we won't get to the question to which this supplementary will be perhaps a little more appropriately targeted, but it does fit with this as well. I attended last week a meeting of the Covent Garden Community Association, where there were about 400 residents present. And they have the good fortune of being in a very lively part of London, and the misfortune of the problems that brings. And they welcome the support of their borough commanders, but they span two borough areas. And I'm wondering whether you think the relationship is quite right where, in...