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• Reference: 2012/0023-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

The Commissioner has said that he wants a new approach to stop and search. He told the Metropolitan Police Authority last year that he hoped to have a new policy in place for the New Year, and he told us last time he was here that that is still his view, but that there would be some consultation with communities and with ourselves and the stakeholders about that new approach. We have not heard of any consultation at the moment on what the new approach is, so could you just let us know firstly what the timescales are, what steps...

• Reference: 2012/0011-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Yes, I do have some questions about the flawed police investigation that followed the fatal stabbing of Stephen Lawrence 19 years ago. I am sure I am not the only one but I just would like to say that so many people who have, if you like, been associated by just their feelings of sympathy and empathy with the family over the years would have been in a state of shock on reading that article. I would just like the Deputy Commissioner to say, if possible, what has been the response from the service to this article and this article...

• Reference: 2012/0014-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): I have a few questions. I wonder, Kit, if I can ask you in your role as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime what assessment you plan to make of the MPS' strategy and policy to address hate crime? I say that given this, I think, quite large increase of 7.6% around disability crime offences that we can see on the performance figures that you have given to us. Also, I just wanted to focus as well on hate crime and crimes against older people, because the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) February 2012 report shows an...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you for that answer. I freely admit this is a semi-planted question. The question is not planted but I received a briefing from the police several months ago precisely as part of the strategy which I think the Authority supports of seeking to reclaim funding for policing at London City Airport, and I quite strongly support that, it is a very profitable enterprise. As I understand it the figures are that currently policing at Heathrow costs roughly £48 million a year, of which we recover £26 million, and we want to increase that to £35 million. From the public...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

London City Airport; roughly we spend £7 million on policing - I think this is public information - and we are hoping to recover £5 million of that £7 million from them. That is not unreasonable.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you, Chair. I think you have put your finger on it when you say partly a problem of transition. My experience has been that the public and the elected representatives of the public are not yet quite clear how the new system should be working, and there is perhaps some hanging on to old consultative contact structures that could really be burned back in order to save police time, because there is some concern about use of police time in the evenings if everybody was clear about how they could access the new consultative and dialogue framework. I would...

• Reference: 2006/0279-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What are the effects on the Authority's buildings development programme given the English Heritage stringent listing conditions and are there associated cost implications?

• Reference: 2006/0280-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What steps are you taking to recover costs of policing Heathrow? Why can't you recover the full costs instead of a proportion of costs? Is the shortfall resulting in cutbacks of policing services either at Heathrow or elsewhere? What has BAA offered so far by way of settlement? And are similar recovery efforts being made for London's other airports?

• Reference: 2006/0281-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A number of local councillors and community activists have expressed their concerns about the complexity of police panels and committees. Please could you set out clearly the roles, responsibilities, membership and inter-relationship of a) the Safer Neighbourhood Ward Panels, b) Action (formerly TAZ) committees and c) the Police Community Consultative Groups?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I thought I might, with your indulgence, Chair, just start the ball rolling by giving one example, very briefly, of good practice which was given to me in my briefing, which is in the Slade Green area of the London borough of Bexley, where Bexley is I think held up as a very good practitioner of community partnerships between the police and the local authority and the voluntary sector and other players, and it has had material benefits, and I guess one thing that would be very helpful in helping to clarify this whole area is to grandstand and exemplify...