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• Reference: 2012/0013-2
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Valerie Shawcross (AM): I think the last time you were both in front of us we did speak a little bit about how you were reconfiguring the Trident Gang Crime Command and the considerable number of people who work in that division, was it 500 staff I think you mentioned. Since then there has been seven stabbings in my division and of course a terrible murder of Kwame Ofosu-Asare [March 2012]. We are looking at the performance data that suggests there is a growing problem. Serious youth violence is up over the 12 months rolling period by 4.9%, nearly 5%...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

John Biggs (AM): Yes. If I can get away with that, I have four questions, but they should all be fairly short. The first is on early departures. Do you have a number of officers who have indicated that they want to go, but not until after the Olympics? Do you have the measure of that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you for that answer. I freely admit this is a semi-planted question. The question is not planted but I received a briefing from the police several months ago precisely as part of the strategy which I think the Authority supports of seeking to reclaim funding for policing at London City Airport, and I quite strongly support that, it is a very profitable enterprise. As I understand it the figures are that currently policing at Heathrow costs roughly £48 million a year, of which we recover £26 million, and we want to increase that to £35 million. From the public...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

London City Airport; roughly we spend £7 million on policing - I think this is public information - and we are hoping to recover £5 million of that £7 million from them. That is not unreasonable.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you, Chair. I think you have put your finger on it when you say partly a problem of transition. My experience has been that the public and the elected representatives of the public are not yet quite clear how the new system should be working, and there is perhaps some hanging on to old consultative contact structures that could really be burned back in order to save police time, because there is some concern about use of police time in the evenings if everybody was clear about how they could access the new consultative and dialogue framework. I would...

• Reference: 2006/0279-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What are the effects on the Authority's buildings development programme given the English Heritage stringent listing conditions and are there associated cost implications?

• Reference: 2006/0280-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What steps are you taking to recover costs of policing Heathrow? Why can't you recover the full costs instead of a proportion of costs? Is the shortfall resulting in cutbacks of policing services either at Heathrow or elsewhere? What has BAA offered so far by way of settlement? And are similar recovery efforts being made for London's other airports?

• 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?

• 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: 2005/0203-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Do sufficient incentives exist for and is sufficient priority given by London Boroughs to develop community safety partnerships with the MPS? If the position is variable, with examples of good practice but in other cases insufficient attention, what should be done to bring the laggards up to standard?