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• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

The other issue is whistle-blowing, when a junior officer perceives racism. How are procedures being put in place to ensure that whistle-blowing can happen?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I am pleased to hear that you are so rigorous. The issue highlighted by the figures is that the numbers of those leaving the police is actually higher in the black and minority ethnic sector. Nearly 9% of such people are leaving, as opposed to nearly 6% who are actually part of the police force. What do you think accounts for that? How do you hope you will be able to change that? Do you think it will be changed by next April?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

The Government recently proposed that the children of failed asylum seekers should be taken into care. What impact upon race and community relations do you think it would have to see Met officers assisting social workers in the Child Protection Agency as they forcibly remove these children from their parents? No doubt the parents would not surrender them willingly?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

If an officer found the proposal morally repugnant, as indeed I do, and he refused the order to assist in the snatching of children from their parents, would he be subject to a disciplinary process?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Under Standing Order 2:22 can I ask the Chair to ask whether Sir John could quickly comment on a Labour Party press briefing note on this meeting which is headed `Top Cop Savages Tory and Liberal Democrat Police Plans'. `Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, this morning condemned Conservative and Liberal Democrat policing proposals for the capital." In doing that, could you also ask Sir John " and I am sure he is aware of some concerns certainly from the Tory group about comments " whether he would also accept an invitation to meet the Tory group at...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Can I say that personally I am quite happy to defend, if it needs defending, the Commissioner's right to comment on proposals. I do not think we should equate him with the chief executive of a local authority because he is not. Chair, he says he does not want to be drawn into our Party-political controversy, but frankly I think it is too late. This press briefing which we now have in front of us is headed `Top Cop Savages Tory and Lib Democrat Police Plans'. Eric has read out the first paragraph, which Sir John has now seen. I...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Roger Evans (AM): Do you think it is a good thing in principle?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

One of the reasons I put this question is because when we actually got the Met to take up the reduction of road death and casualties as a priority I really felt that the argument had been won. However, I still do not see the results in the boroughs. Are there resources going to the boroughs for this or not?