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  • Warranted police numbers in Merton and Wandsworth

    • Reference: 2011/0207-1
    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2011
    How many more warranted police (i.e. Police Officers and Special Constables) are there in Merton and Wandsworth since May 2008?

  • Protecting Policing

    • Reference: 2011/0082-1
    • Question by: Victoria Borwick
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    How will the Metropolitan Police Service use its resources more efficiently during the next three years?

  • Priorities for Budget Cuts (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    What you have described as increasing the bureaucracy have principally been things which have been forced on you externally. Would you be willing to look at things done internally, at the request perhaps of the MPS and more frequently at the request of the MPA, which are rather foolish and look to the public as being extremely odd? You have mentioned your standard operating procedures. This nonsense about how you should ride a bicycle etc are patently obvious and we should not be wasting time training people to do things which to the ordinary man is a complete waste of...

  • Priorities for Budget Cuts (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    Last month I was fortunate enough to tour Romford Town Centre with the Borough Commander, who showed me the work that has been done to tackle crime associated with the night time economy which is a serious problem for us in Romford. Regrettably last month we had a shooting which is quite unusual. Stabbings and violence is not unusual but a shooting is. Can you explain how you are going to tackle crime in places like Romford in the night time economy set against this background of austerity that we need to deal with?

  • Priorities for Budget Cuts (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    This question is about the effect of budget cuts on police work but I think the public always ask, 'All right about the police work but what about unnecessary bureaucracy?' Do you both feel you are bearing down enough on unnecessary bureaucracy? I am thinking of the pursuit of targets and box ticking which was brought in largely by the last Government. For example, I believe the Home Office has suggested that the Policing Pledge should go. Are you going to remove the Policing Pledge in the MPS or not? Are you doing enough on bureaucracy or is Government perhaps...

  • Next steps on public access channels (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    This may be more a question for Kit Malthouse, as an accountant. Are you satisfied that the MPS property estate management is as fast on its feet as it ought to be? Because it does seem to me that in the last few years we were at one point in a considerable property boom and I got the impression that a lot of opportunities were missed at that stage. What is your view?

  • Protecting Policing (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2011
    Could you tell me how the rapid response experiment has been going, in terms of using resources more efficiently?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Does that include taking advice from the people on Lord James of Blackheath's team who had to bail out some of the consequences of the Dome? The police were involved in that.

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    The trouble that I have is that the more one departs from basic commercial practice, when we fall into public sector practice, the greater the risk, history tells us, of budget overruns.

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Can I come, Sir Roy, back to a point that Mr Higgins made in relation to our earlier discussions? I am concerned about the extent to which bottom up budgeting is really being regarded as being acceptable at all. Would you not accept that one of the lessons I think that we have learned from projects like the Dome and other public sector projects is that, by and large, you should start from the revenue generation figure, and be very reluctant about bottom up budgeting, because that is where you get `creep'? If you have the revenue regeneration figure as...