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• Reference: 2019/20084
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

At a meeting of Merton Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Commission held on the 11th September Sally Benatar, the Basic Command Unit (BCU Commander, stated that there are five key performance indicators for the South West BCU, one of which is ‘Stop and search – increase the amount we are doing’. Are you concerned that such simplistic performance indicators might be counter-productive and undermine public confidence in the police?

• Reference: 2019/20085
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

At a meeting of Merton Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Commission held on the 11th September Sally Benatar, the BCU Commander, stated that there are five key performance indicators for the South West BCU, one of which is ‘Stop and search – increase the amount we are doing’. Is such a policy being followed by any other BCUs within the Metropolitan Police Service?

• Reference: 2014/4966
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

What is the forecast spend in 2014/15 on training officers to use the Water Cannon?

• Reference: 2014/4967
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Please publish a summary of the responses you have received from the Hospital Trusts you wrote to regarding the implementation of the Cardiff Model in London.

• Reference: 2014/4968
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

The current model for policing Richmond and Bushy parks is not working. Shift patterns do not match visitor or incident patterns and there are no specific environmental policing considerations in the current model. Would you commission research into how this model could work better for the effective policing of the parks?

• Reference: 2014/4969
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Environmental policing is not part of MPS culture and receives low priority in the MPS; wildlife crime as defined by the MPS does not cover the type of policing needed by Bushy and Richmond Parks. What additional training do the officers receive who are assigned to these parks?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Still, even in what you have just described, you have not mentioned any interaction with the people on the ground ' the businesses ' at this stage. You are talking about consulting the boroughs and consulting other stakeholders. I would have thought that at this stage, you need the information from the people who are going to be looking for the contracts, and who are going to be producing it. I find it quite difficult to get information. If I could, I will address the next bit to Tony (Winterbottom, Executive Director, Regeneration & Development, LDA), rather than you. Tony...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know. I am not saying that you are not going to write wonderful strategy papers saying how marvellously the whole thing will work. What I am actually looking for is for you to talk to people, talk to London companies, and engage in debate with them. It is the same thing; it is the blue-sky thinking, the strategies, but where is the action?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am terribly sorry to interrupt you, but the problem is you are probably not aware that the longer you speak, the less time I have.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know, but you said in a radio interview recently, `We are the Mayor's agency for businesses and jobs in London, and for the first couple of years, we will be doing most of the work in respect of the Olympic Games.' Now, you cannot make a statement like that on the radio in a national radio programme, and then not expect local companies to think that they can ring up us or ring up the LDA and say, `What is the position? How can we get some of these jobs?'