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

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

• 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...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

): The area I want to talk about is prevention and it is linked with public confidence. We know we have heard and we would all agree that visibility and good performance are key factors relating to maintaining confidence. Would you agree with me that public confidence is also improved if people believe that the police are working with other agencies and neighbourhood watches to prevent crime? I think, sometimes, we miss out that third factor. At a full Authority meeting in September 2010 you said, 'Sometimes we move into gaps in the market and that, on occasion, has been...