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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There are pressures which you face immediately financially with a poorer and poorer settlement, and indeed the issues which are over the horizon - clearly the Olympic Games will be a major issue for the Metropolitan Police Service itself - current pressure on terrorism, and indeed the growing focus on clear up rates - how many crimes are resolved and result in a punishment - that continues to grind. We had the Home Secretary yesterday talking about the broad failure of the probation service and we know the impact that has on recidivism within the service. Are you resilient enough...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

We will take that as a no then, shall we?

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

I suspect you may not be able to answer this question but I think I should ask it, has there been an occasion when BAA or another airport authority has said, `You are over-egging the pudding, you are providing us with an excessive level of protection given the risks that we perceive that we have'?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The Police and Justice Bill - or Act as it very nearly is - will require every local authority to set up a Community Safety Scrutiny Committee which again will add to the complexities of the local arrangements we are discussing. How do you envisage that fitting in with the arrangements? How will it relate to the police consultative groups for instance?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Sir Ken Knight made the same joke. That is why you did not get a laugh, because we have heard the joke once this morning so I am sorry you did not get a laugh.

• Reference: 2006/0282-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you explain the Metropolitan Police property strategy and its implications for existing police stations?

• Reference: 2006/0298-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I am extremely concerned to hear rumours circulating that the Metropolitan Police plans to close Rotherhithe, Camberwell and East Dulwich police stations within the next few years. Is this the case? And do the MPA and MPS understand the great value that local residents place on their local police stations and that shop fronts open only during business hours would not be an acceptable alternative?

• Reference: 2006/0338-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Have you secured agreement with the British Transport Police that Transport Safer Neighbourhood PCSOs will be permitted to patrol their `territory' without any restrictions?

• Reference: 2006/0254-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What level of carbon dioxide emissions reduction and modal shift does the MPS expect to achieve through its workplace travel plan?

• Reference: 2006/0256-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you provide an update on negotiations with BAA to recover the cost of policing at Heathrow and London City airports?