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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

But with a budgeted workforce target, by March 2002 we would have deployed 662 officers through £28 million, or whatever is paid for those officers, so the precept's already paid for that. I'm asking, where do all the other officers go, because in fact, until you decided to move that the allocation should be determined by the figures in December, they were in fact only 200. So do you not think that perhaps New Scotland Yard are becoming too centralised, they've forgotten that major crime happens in the boroughs, and the council tax preceptor is paying for it, and is...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I won't take up too much time, I just want one other question about the management consultants and financial management consultants that have been looking over the MPS budget. Now do you have meetings with them, because we don't, and I would like to suggest that they come and address a Finance Planning and Best Value Committee as to how they're getting on, because we just hear third hand how it's all working out, and then we work in the dark as to how much savings we can actually put through, like £60 odd million now. So do you have...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Mr Godwin also talked about tabling a paper, a very important paper. If it's not tabled, we need it in advance, and I think it's about time that we get through to the MPS that the MPA is there for good. I think it's time Chairman, you and your Chairman got tough, and you pulled papers off agendas that were laid on the table with serious budgetary consequences. Sometimes you put us all in a very difficult position. We may one day make the wrong decision.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Chairman, thank Mr Godwin for that, but Chairman, if the MPA decides that this initiative, and we are talking about the CF as late as this, and this initiative is not going ahead, how are you going to tell the Mayor? No doubt, he's already got a press release winging out this very minute!

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Lord Harris, can I go back to this policing initiative with the Mayor? We've heard from the Mayor this morning that there's a pilot going on. I believe that Commander Shave has been sent over to look after that initiative and set it up. I'd like to know, considering this year's budget is so tight, where the funding is coming for that? Has there been a transfer of funding from TfL to pay for this present initiative? This year I'm talking about, not the 240 we're going to recruit.

• Reference: 2001/0290-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Does Lord Harris accept that a Metropolitan police report into the impact of the Mayor's congestion charge on the police service has shown that; crime will rise around the congestion charging zone, the charge will cost the Met over £1,000,000 a year and that response times around the zone will be slower as a result of traffic build up? .

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Lord Harris, I'm looking at the Commissioner's Report for tomorrow that ethnic minority police officers are running at 4.1%. Do you think our target, which is to increase the percentage to 5% of minority ethnic police officers in the force, is ambitious enough?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Lord Harris, I notice you have appreciated Merton's problem with only 303 but that is not 303 bodies, that is their workforce plus their vacancy level and it is that question around vacancy levels I want to talk to you about. 333 police officers have been identified, and given up by central and support departments. No, can I take that back, 333 police officers' posts have been identified. Now these are not bodies that have been transferred to the boroughs and what I would like to know is, was this a cynical exercise by the central and support departments -...