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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I am sure it is right to do that because, leaving aside the question of the overground railway simply because they work on the Tube and the buses. Clearly, we all know that after 10.00 pm is very often one of the times when people most want to see a visible uniformed presence. I am wondering, given this difficulty which I hope can be resolved, and given the fact we have had to go through this sort of negotiation, would it perhaps in retrospect have been better to advise the Mayor to put in the money for fully warranted officers...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you very much. Can I come back to Lord Tope's questions about shift patterns and so on for PCSOs and in particular in relation to their work on the overground railway. You will remember that there was some discussion of this at the September MPA meeting and the particular concern I have is that at the moment of course y it involves PCSOs finishing at 10.00 pm. Tim Godwin (Assistant Commissioner) told the Police Authority on 28 September that if they worked after 10.00 pm in the evening, staff would be entitled to an increase in salary which was...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It does, and I can go on but if you have got anything to tell me other than you have already told Tony Arbour, who asked my question under a supplementary, please do. If you do not, may I explore another area?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you. Safer Neighbourhood Policing is your baby. It is your stamp as the new Commissioner and it is your stamp on policing in London. Therefore, if you cannot get enough money for an expansion of neighbourhood policing, your reputation is at risk. Are you sure that you are actually going to get 6,000 PCSOs paid for from the Home Office?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Neighbourhood policing is very expensive. In the next two years £90 million, £100 million, something like this, for the expansion. I was in fact going to ask exactly about the £300 million that you hope to get out of your review, whether you would use any of that, and it would be right to use our own resources. I believe that the neighbourhood policing now is all rolled out in the first quarter of the year, funded by £2.8 million from the underspend which we are having this year. I think the underspend now, net of this £2.8 million, is...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Can I just ask if it was your idea to actually roll out all these neighbourhood units in the first quarter of the year, or were you asked to do it from somewhere else?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It would have given us 70 officers. It would have given us maybe two extra officers per borough, which would have been great.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

No, I am dealing with finance here.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

As I understand it, your assessment is that the risk, whilst not to be overstated, nonetheless remains real and continuing?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Certainly nothing has changed in recent weeks or months to alter that?