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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

We are looking at how the Metropolitan Police Service might evolve in the next couple of years and one of the key parts of this is using new technology to communicate with residents and with members of the public. It is very commendable that internet and text services are now being used to inform people of crime threats in their area and precautions they need to take. What steps is the Metropolitan Police Service going to take to ensure that vulnerable elderly residents who may not have access to text or internet can receive those messages as well?

• Reference: 2010/0151-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

What examples can the MPA and MPS give of where they have managed, or are aiming, to do more for less?

• Reference: 2010/0165-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Boris Johnson wrote in response to my question - on introducing two-tier crime recording (as proposed by the Flanagan Report) to free up police time - that 'We need our police on the streets and therefore fully support a two-tier approach'. What have the Metropolitan police done in response to this?

• Reference: 2010/0166-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

The coalition Government is set on scrapping targets including the confidence target. However I am aware that the MPS feels that confidence both can and should be measured. I think many people doubt both of these. When austerity changes need to be made, is it worth investing police time and public money to measure this in the present time?

• Reference: 2010/0167-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

When targets have been shown, time and again, to create perverse incentives, can we assure Londoners that it will remove as many bureaucracy-creating targets as possible?

• Reference: 2010/0168-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

What are we actively doing to reduce the amount of sickness leave and absence due to restricted or recuperative duties? How have the figures changed in the last four years?

• Reference: 2010/0169-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

When police are scared to not react to calls involving cases such as a child is simply refusing to go to school, what is the Metropolitan police actively doing to remove these kinds of inefficiencies in the MPS?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Can we see an approach to CPEGs which measures the results they achieve in terms of output, rather than, say, the number of meetings they have or the number of consultations they take part in, which are the type of measurements that encourage people to make up work rather than encourage them to solve problems?