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• Reference: 2012/0035-2
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

Moving on to particularly burglary and robbery. I mentioned earlier directly to the Commissioner that these are crimes that affect many, many people and often are the crimes that touch many people in the sort of areas that I represent, be it burglary of their homes, often robbery which often affects their young people in town centres. It is often a disproportionate affecting crime. It does worry me somewhat that the figures on robbery and burglary do seem to be going in the wrong direction over a period of time, both pan-London and in particular one of my boroughs. I...

• Reference: 2012/0036-2
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

You will know it is the Mayor's Manifesto to introduce the sentencing unit and I think we are very interested to see how that plays out and how that forms. I would be interested in your comments. Something that I think has brought this very much to all of our attentions is about and we had DAC Kavanagh here the other week talking about confidence levels. Something that we did say was that it is all very well the police getting their act together but the communal process is more complex than just the police and sentencing is one of...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Chair, mine is along the same lines that John [Biggs AM], unsurprisingly, was talking about, was the budget, so I will try to blend it slightly away from repeating John particularly. The budget is a challenge and you pointed it out and you have answered those questions around that. However, it does have broader issues, and I am particularly thinking about the effect on things like morale on the ground. If you do talk to as we all do studiously often local cops, cops tend to moan because that is part of the deal. But, if we...

• Reference: 2011/0201-1
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

What are your priorities for London policing in the next three years?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

Commissioner, it is pleasing to hear from you your commitment to safer neighbourhoods and Safer Neighbourhood Teams. My feedback to you is that they are something that are massively important to Londoners and there has been an immense amount of credit built up over the last half a dozen, eight years, with the evolution of them. First of all I want to explore your thoughts around the future and how you see Safer Neighbourhood Teams balanced with maintaining response teams balanced with back office duties. The commitment is there from you and I would like you to repeat it again...

• Reference: 2010/0148-1
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Given that you're now 2 years into a 4 year crime strategy, what have you learned so far that will help you deliver lower crime in the future?"