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• Reference: 2011/0256-1
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

Is the commissioner concerned by some of the findings in the Metropolitan Police Federation survey "Lessons from the front line" and will they be acting on officers concerns?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

Good morning Commissioner. From my own point of view I was quite happy to see we have a Commissioner that will be on the front line. From your letters I have read through and your comments today, a no nonsense gentleman in charge of our police force. I have two questions I would like to put to you. I was going to ask them after the next question but I think they are more appropriate now as much as the next question to follow. According to a poll that has been carried out, 72% of Londoners believe the Metropolitan Police...

• Reference: 2010/0172-1
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

We have been both surprised and alarmed at the response to no less than three FOI requests to the Metropolitan Police. Each case was a violent incident, and the FOI request was for police to issue a description of the attackers: the response stated that "to issue a description of the perpetrators would not be in the public interest". This reasoning defies logic - how can it be in the public interest not to disclose details of a person or a gang perpetrating violence? How can the Met be protecting the public by leaving residents of a given area at...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to continue on the aspect of public confidence. Recently I have made - on three occasions and I am quite surprised and alarmed by the results - freedom of information requests (FOIs) to the Metropolitan Police Service. Each of those related to violent incidents. I had asked for the description of the attackers, person or persons involved. The reply has come back. One example is with Thomas Hewitt [Thomas Hewitt Jones, a man attacked in Dulwich in July 2010]. Two comments come back. One is that to issue a description of the perpetrators would not be in...