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• Reference: 2012/0059-2
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Can you tell us a little bit about how the budget proposals were developed between the Metropolitan Police Service and the Mayor's office?

• Reference: 2012/0012-2
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Jenny Jones (AM): It is really difficult to know where to start. This has been going on for eight and a half years now and that is a long time in human terms, in Metropolitan Police Service terms of course it is just a click of the fingers. I think I first wrote to the Chief Executive, I cannot remember, it might have been 2004, about this when Mr Ahmad actually approached me, and it just seems to be so turgid, the whole process, that the Metropolitan Police Service is constantly to be forced to do anything about this. You...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

I think most Londoners are absolutely full of praise for the way police handled this from Tuesday 8 August onwards, and the policing was proportionate, it was appropriate, it was effective, the right numbers were there and we did not need to have the Army coming in or plastic bullets or water cannons or anything like that. It was appropriate, effective policing that restored order. However, the widespread perception on the Sunday and the Monday is simply that the policing operation was not effective either in terms of tactics or in terms of the numbers on the street. Could those...