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• Reference: 2007/0108-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

How do you intend to fulfill the promise of a bonfire of bureaucracy?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you for that. I think a lot of it is also about public perception but also what other people say. I heard on the Today programme once Glen Smythe who is the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation saying, `The level of crime reported is far below that which really happens and the whole process is underplayed for political reasons'. I am link member on the MPA for Kensington and Chelsea and the Chair of the Police and Community Consultative Group (PCCG) there is constantly concerned with regard to, say, carnival that the level of reporting of crime is...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Would you, Commissioner, please comment on the misuse of statistics yesterday by the Mayor who said of the police force in Kingston that they were 14 times more likely to stop black people than white people, and that black people in Richmond were 13 times more likely to be stopped than white people? Would you explain how this has occurred and make it crystal clear that there is absolutely no question that the police in both of these fine Boroughs are doing anything which could conceivably be said to be discriminatory?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Would you support completely independent statistics in future?

• 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.