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• Reference: 2011/0230-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

Please can you update me on progress with this strategy in Enfield and Haringey. What proposals are you considering for the future 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?

• Reference: 2011/0079-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

In the face of unprecedented budget cuts, what areas of police work will the MPS prioritise for budget reductions in order to meet the funding shortfall in future years?

• Reference: 2011/0080-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

How many responses did you receive to your online survey about 'public access channels', when will you publish the full results and what was ranked as the most important reason for visiting a front counter?

• Reference: 2011/0081-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

Are you concerned about the value for money implications of moving to a workforce with a higher proportion of police officer posts and lower proportion of civilian posts?

• Reference: 2011/0082-1
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

How will the Metropolitan Police Service use its resources more efficiently during the next three years?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

We do all support efficiency but cuts and the pressure of budgets do pose a danger that we could be losing essential expertise. There has been some coverage that you are planning to make cuts to the homicide and serious crime command teams and that there may be some merging with Trident. I would be very concerned that the quality and effectiveness of the excellent work that is done in those areas could be lost. Would you be making these cuts and these changes to these extremely expert teams if it were not for the enormous budget pressures that you...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

What you have described as increasing the bureaucracy have principally been things which have been forced on you externally. Would you be willing to look at things done internally, at the request perhaps of the MPS and more frequently at the request of the MPA, which are rather foolish and look to the public as being extremely odd? You have mentioned your standard operating procedures. This nonsense about how you should ride a bicycle etc are patently obvious and we should not be wasting time training people to do things which to the ordinary man is a complete waste of...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

Tim, do you share his optimism? Is that a target you can guarantee today?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

Last month I was fortunate enough to tour Romford Town Centre with the Borough Commander, who showed me the work that has been done to tackle crime associated with the night time economy which is a serious problem for us in Romford. Regrettably last month we had a shooting which is quite unusual. Stabbings and violence is not unusual but a shooting is. Can you explain how you are going to tackle crime in places like Romford in the night time economy set against this background of austerity that we need to deal with?