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• Reference: 2012/0068-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Does the Metropolitan Police Service actually accept in broad principle the findings of the Leveson Inquiry?

• Reference: 2012/0069-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Let us move on to the drug intervention programme. Obviously you are having the budget for this devolved from the Home Office. It is a considerable sum of money. How are you going to manage the programme?

• Reference: 2012/0070-2
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

I wanted to pick up first on Project Daedalus and then moving forward on that. Obviously in the detailed evaluation report that we have had it showed the reoffending rate for those leaving the Heron Unit was 53%, whereas the national reoffending rate was 70%, but that was only for the first cohort. I am wondering, are you going to be looking at the later cohorts to assess what their reoffending rate was - which would mean we probably would not get the final details until the end of next year?

• Reference: 2012/0071-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Yes, we have just got a few questions about Operation Condor, and I think my colleague, Andrew, has some questions about this as well. Deputy Commissioner, you recently carried out the operation in my corner of town in Havering and Redbridge, I think you arrested one person in Havering and nobody in Redbridge. How do you judge the impact of a large-scale operation like that against the resource costs?

• Reference: 2012/0061-2
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I want to ask about, and we have touched on it a little bit, the consultation that is going to be taking place and is taking place on the Local Policing Model, the Estate Strategy and the Police and Crime Plan. We have heard so many different things about this, perhaps, Stephen, if we could just start off with you, if you could just clarify to us exactly what will be consulted on in January. I think you said 7 January. What is going to be in it in terms of will there be options around the estate, will there...

• Reference: 2012/0063-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Perhaps I can move to the Police and Crime Plan, and thank you, Deputy Mayor, for sending us the headline document. I think at the moment, until there is great meat on the bones, there is very little we can feedback at the moment, so we look forward to doing that in the New Year. Could I just make and observation and ask one question. You talked about accountability earlier, police accountability. There is nothing in this document about accountability, so I think that is a major issue that needs to go in there. Also, I think MOPAC's accountability, particularly...

• Reference: 2012/0067-2
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

It is very simply stated that we have a commitment from the Mayor's Chief of Staff about the quality and quantity of financial information we will be receiving and it should not diminish. My exhibits are (a) Police and Crime Committee monthly report, one paragraph of financial information, which says I think diddly-squat is the accounting term, and (b) is MPA Finance Committee, Resources Committee, same time last year, 24-page report with tables with accurate information on the departures from the budget. That seems to me to be a bit of a departure from Sir Edward [Lister]'s undertaking. If I...

• Reference: 2012/0050-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I think my colleagues may have picked some of the cherries out of this by the time I got here. Just to explore the targets, first of all, Deputy Commissioner, let us talk about the culture that target-setting creates. How do you make sure that the targets which you set drive performance and measure performance rather than create incentives to do things that we would not want people to do, make people focus in the wrong direction or even dare I say it fabricate results?

• Reference: 2012/0051-2
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I have a few questions about the borough command units. If I can start with the Deputy Commissioner, what is the strategy driving your proposals for merger of borough commands?

• Reference: 2012/0053-2
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I want to talk about the general issue of fraud, and then I want to get into a specific example. First of all, perhaps briefly, Deputy Commissioner, you could outline what the police are doing, what checks you have in place, to alert you to cases of potential fraud?