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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: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The actual quote was `even a whelk stall has an accountant', and you did not.

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

Is the command structure of policing in London robust enough to meet the challenges of the next five years?

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

There is both revenue and capital. Are you capitalised enough to meet the current demand?

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

I would actually like the Commissioner to give his views on the fitness for purpose both of the financial and management structures. The Metropolitan Police within two years will be 180 years old. In many ways it has not changed. Certainly its mission from 1829, `Detection and prevention of crime with the promotion of public tranquillity', has not changed. Should that be changing? How far of you gone with Safer Neighbourhoods? What about accountability of local Borough Commanders or answerability to the local people? How far are you taking localised citizen focus? Are we fit for purpose there?

• Reference: 2006/0366-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The total budget for equalities issues was reported to the MPA as £196 million at the Joint PPRC/Finance Committee meeting on 21st September 2006. Does this seem a little excessive to you and can you provide a breakdown of how this money will be spent?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I am grateful for the Chairman's intervention and indeed your last comment. I am conscious of the new strapline for the MPS, which is `Together'. I am conscious that Len (Duvall) said that it is an issue for the whole of London, all the communities across London, and yet, I still, within my constituency, get echoes of the statement that Hazel Blears (Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety) made, that our Muslim community must be prepared, and to accept, to be disproportionately stopped and searched because of the terrorist threat; a statement which was echoed by yourself...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you very much, and can I thank you for your answer that you gave earlier to the Chair on how we are going to measure the inputs and what I call the `fluffy side' of politics and policing. How was it for you? What do you expect from us? Was it nice? Did he walk quickly? Did he walk slowly? All the fluffy bits, but is not the true measure of success at the MPS the manner in which it, one, prevents crime as it was asked to do in 1829, and secondly, we now call it public cohesion...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

- only in part, to be fair -

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

If you had listened to the whole of that interview, you would have heard me mention exactly those figures that you have done now, and the Serious Crime Directorate is doing particularly well, and they come under that, but when I look at the variation in crime and detection rates for both burglary, vehicle crime, whatever it is, borough by borough, it gives me the impression that there are boroughs that are suffering from a lack of detectives, from a lack of detective skill, both in numbers and experience and all the rest, and whilst we concentrate on the uniform...