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• Reference: 2012/0069-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Let us move on to the drug intervention programme. Obviously you are having the budget for this devolved from the Home Office. It is a considerable sum of money. How are you going to manage the programme?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): Do you have any views on that, Stephen?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

This is an incredibly difficult area because in fact you do not want to stop whistle-blowers. You do not want to stop the police officers who are reporting on illegal activities within the Metropolitan Police Service. You want them to come forward. At the same time, you do not want false allegations leaked. In the past, the Metropolitan Police Service has had incidents where that has happened and officers do not seem to have been published. We have the de Menezes stuff and we have the Tomlinson stuff. Metropolitan Police Service officers have got away with false allegations or false...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

I wanted to bring us on to the topic of violence against women and children. I think you know that we are doing a piece of work on it at the moment. We have met with women's support organisations and so on, with a view to presenting that report to MOPAC and then having it feed into your update to the Mayor's strategy. That is all going fairly smoothly at the moment. I wanted to ask you in particular about two of the Mayor's pledges on domestic violence. One of them was that he has pledged to maintain the number...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Yes, this is interesting. This has really come as a bit of a bombshell because much of the consultation and the discussion which has taken place up until now has been predicated on the proposal that there is going to be increasing co-operation between boroughs and that there may well be a change in the rank of the person who is in charge in a particular borough. I can tell you of the meetings that I have been at that this has been something quite considerable. You have told us today that effectively everything is back in the melting pot...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Just to go back briefly, I have two questions if I may please, just to go back and follow up what Len just said about sector inspectors. The working group chair in Kensington and Chelsea recently wrote to us because they had nine sector inspectors over a very recent period of time. I just want to sort of reiterate that the confidence or the feeling that gives about the Metropolitan Police Service, about changing culture, where there is a constant staff changeover, you know, obviously inevitably there is a feeling of one is losing out on experienced corporate memory and...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

This is another of those cases I am afraid where there has been leakage in some parts of town and there are protests already springing up around various sites and people are hearing different things. Obviously, we appreciate you have a difficult job to do. I had one case at Wanstead where the police station was actually closed ten years ago and opened again because it was found to be necessary. I guess my question to you is how will you make sure in this strategy that you do not find yourself in a situation again where something is closed...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Thank you. I want to go back a couple of steps to the use of digital technology and video. There have been trials of body-worn cameras, which - on the figures I have had shared with me - indicate that they have reduced the amount of administrative time that those officers subsequently have had to get involved in, they reduce the number of complaints. What I would ask is what plans do you have in place to learn lessons from those trials and roll out body-worn cameras as widely as possible right across basically frontline policing? Stephen, I think.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Jenny Jones (Deputy Chair): Thank you. Mr Mackey, how many vans are there that you are going to -- Craig Mackey (Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police): Right across the Metropolitan Police Service? I do not have the exact figure. Jenny Jones (Deputy Chair): I am just wondering, roughly.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Yes, thank you, Chair. Can I ask the Deputy Mayor, in the light of the PC Harwood episode, are you now satisfied with the vetting procedures for employees of the Metropolitan Police Service?