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• Reference: 2011/0206-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

i) Were there more or less crimes (total notifiable offences) for the 3 years before May 2008 in Merton and Wandsworth compared to the three years after May 2008? By what percentage has this changed in these boroughs? ii) Has there been an increase or decrease in youth violence in 2010/11 compared with 2007/8 in Merton and Wandsworth? By what percentage has this changed in these boroughs?

• 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?

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

Commissioner, I want to try to get from you some idea of how you see the style of policing in the next few years. The reports that have come out since August and the awful affairs in August have rather suggested that there is an attitude that policing has become a bit too much like social services. That has come out in the reports, various ones - I am sure you are conversant with all of them - and the various discussions on television. The assumption has then been made that the people who were committing the offences in August...

• 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...

• 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?

• 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?

• Reference: 2010/0150-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

What will be the effect of the proposed changes to the Criminal Justice system, with regards to sentencing and prisons, to London; and how will the various MPA initiatives created since 2008 help to protect Londoners?

• Reference: 2010/0152-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

There have been recent claims implying that there has been a cut in domestic violence funding in London. How many more resources have been put into issues relating to violence against women since 2008?

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

As you have heard, we have been taking evidence elsewhere about frontline policing, whether the Commissioner likes the term or not. We have been talking to HMIC and former chief constables and one point raised is that there is a tendency sometimes for officers to go off into specialist units and then, when the threat and the risk they are supposed to be addressing within those specialist units decreases, they are not taken off into normal duties again. What is your view, Commissioner, of that point that has been made to us?