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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?

• Reference: 2011/0257-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

What will policing in London look like in 2 years time?

• 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: 2010/0170-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

How do you envisage the future of Borough policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Reference: 2010/0206-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Dee Doocey (Chair): We now come to the session on policing. Can I formally welcome Kit Malthouse, in his capacity as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. I know that both Kit and Sir Paul wish to make an opening statement. Just to explain how things are going to work, the questions we have got in today are quite unusual in that they are all quite similar, so it has been agreed that each question will be put in turn and the questioner will have the opportunity to ask two...

• 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: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to pick up a couple of the issues from earlier. I am, Sir Paul, really reassured in your commitment to Safer Neighbourhood Teams and, particularly, that you are nervous about moving away from the ward-based model; I certainly am as well. It is very reassuring compared to what I have heard the Assistant Commissioner in Territorial Policing say. I found that he clearly has ideas to change TP completely. You said to Richard [Tracey] that that might be Surrey, this is London. It seems to me Ian McPherson's ideas come from Norfolk, and that is not London...

• 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...