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• Reference: 2002/0264-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Has the Metropolitan Police Authority set an ambitious enough street crime reduction target (0% increase in 2002/03 across the Met, including a 10% increase in Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Waltham Forest and Wandsworth) given the efforts made by the police and the priority accorded to tackling this crime by the public? .

• Reference: 2002/0272-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I am aware that a number of Borough Commanders have been instructed by Territorial Policing - at short notice - to relinquish officers from their borough complement to assist other under-strength borough commands. As many probationers were allocated to certain boroughs on an understanding that they would progress there, and as many transferees from outside the MPS were also given assurances as to location of employment, is this the best way to manage police personnel in the borough commands? .

• Reference: 2002/0249-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can borough-based policing succeed and Borough Commanders be given the independence to set targets relevant to local crime-fighting needs and local community input when there are pressures from central government, London government, London's Crime Reduction Director, Crime Reduction Partnerships, the Metropolitan Police Authority and other groups, and when the Borough Commanders serve so many masters? .

• Reference: 2002/0235-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Is there not a danger of a proliferation of plans and strategies with the National Policing plan, the Metropolitan Police Policing and Performance Plan, the `Towards the safest city" three-year strategic framework document, as well as Borough Policing and Performance Plans and local crime and disorder strategies? .

• Reference: 2002/0246-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

How does the Home Secretary's National Policing Plan sit with the recommendation of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary that crime reduction and other police targets should be set locally so that they are responsive and appropriate to particular local crime problems and crime-fighting needs? .

• Reference: 2002/0251-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Will the National Policing Plan, the Metropolitan Police Policing and Performance Plan and other plans and strategies accord with the view expressed in the `Policing for London" study (published by South Bank University and the LSE earlier this year) that the Metropolitan Police needs to""develop ways of managing performance that place greater emphasis on achieving professional standards and less emphasis on hitting numerical targets"? .

• Reference: 2002/0254-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are there any plans to rectify the discrepancy whereby the original nine Safer Streets Boroughs (Brent, Camden, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Westminster) were set a -5% street crime reduction targets for 2002/3, but the additional six Safer Streets Boroughs (Croydon, Ealing, Lewisham, Newham, Waltham Forest and Wandsworth) have a target to limit the increase in street crime to 10% (except Newham with a 0% increase target)? .