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• Reference: 2006/0281-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A number of local councillors and community activists have expressed their concerns about the complexity of police panels and committees. Please could you set out clearly the roles, responsibilities, membership and inter-relationship of a) the Safer Neighbourhood Ward Panels, b) Action (formerly TAZ) committees and c) the Police Community Consultative Groups?

• Reference: 2006/0362-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Do you believe that the management and finance structure of the Metropolitan Police Service is fit for purpose in the 21st Century?

• Reference: 2006/0382-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Statistics appear to show a drop in crime, but do you have any reservations about the statistics?

• Reference: 2006/0375-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Do you see security and safety at main line stations as an issue and if so, what will you be doing to ensure the safety of the travelling public, particularly at peak hours?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

The good students of Malmesbury School might be interested to know that out of all this chaos we have a bunch of Assembly Members quizzing the man who is responsible for delivering the Olympic Games in London. By the time they are voters, the Olympics will be finished. The area of the Olympics will be regenerated, and there will be many jobs there. Mr Higgins has already said that he wants to put other people on the spot to make sure it is not just the Olympics delivering all of these benefits, but it is the whole regeneration of the...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

If their input is going to be meaningful, it cannot be after the contracts have been let, and the horse has bolted, as it were. It also cannot just be producing more imaginative, visionary statements that do not translate into practical reality on the ground.

• Reference: 2005/0275-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How will you ensure that those developments being funded by the private sector (if any) will adhere to the sustainability promises made?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I thought I might, with your indulgence, Chair, just start the ball rolling by giving one example, very briefly, of good practice which was given to me in my briefing, which is in the Slade Green area of the London borough of Bexley, where Bexley is I think held up as a very good practitioner of community partnerships between the police and the local authority and the voluntary sector and other players, and it has had material benefits, and I guess one thing that would be very helpful in helping to clarify this whole area is to grandstand and exemplify...

• Reference: 2005/0261-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Many areas in Croydon and Sutton are cursed with the riding of small mini-mopeds and motorcycles on pathways, parks, open spaces and roads by riders often unhelmeted. Frequently it seems that individual community ward officers do their very best to tackle the problems arising from this behaviour. What though is best practice across the Metropolitan Police Service on dealing with this problem ? What powers are employed to tackle such behaviour and what additional powers could the police service seek to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2005/0262-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What opportunities and challenges do you see for the Service from proposals in the Queen's Speech ?