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  • Public disorder incidents in London (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 07 September 2011
    ): There is a very good track record in many areas of London of engagement by the police with the community, particularly in gang intervention, and I know, Acting Commissioner, that this is something you know a lot about. Have there been cuts in that intervention?

  • Public disorder incidents in London (Supplementary) [5]

    • 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...