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• Reference: 2014/4960
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Can I invite you make a short opening statement before we move on to the questions which have been tabled?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Fortuitously, Madam Chairman, my question is about response times, so it may be that the Chairman is able to clarify his position here, because we would not want him to be misreported in the electronic media emanating from this meeting, would we. We recall the production of the very first London Safety Plan, which I think was overseen by Valerie Shawcross when she was Chair of the Brigade. That demonstrated that response times were poor in some parts of London, including Havering, and actually led to an improvement in the resources in those boroughs. The question that I have for...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

It is obvious just from looking at the media coverage that different tactics were used on the ground in different places, and some with a greater level of success than others. In Romford we had some prior notice that this was going to happen by maybe extrapolating the events from the night before in the way that Darren has mentioned, but also information on social media, and that enabled our fairly far-sighted borough commander, Mike Smith, to put measures in place to ask businesses to close early and to deploy his officers at Romford Station, where the considerable police presence...