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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you assure us that you will stay with the evidence base that this development is predicated on?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

We will be looking for the rationale that you have used.

• 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?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

It is my understanding that it is due for publication so if that could be checked. If you gather this information about this most important topic, then surely it should be published.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Commissioner, I understand that the Metropolitan Police Service is currently conducting research into the reasons for the disproportional amount of stops, arrests and charges for the African Caribbean community. Can you confirm that this report is due for publication soon, and will you be fronting up that publication and enabling a widespread, really good debate about that report?

• 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?