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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?

• Reference: 2012/0071-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Yes, we have just got a few questions about Operation Condor, and I think my colleague, Andrew, has some questions about this as well. Deputy Commissioner, you recently carried out the operation in my corner of town in Havering and Redbridge, I think you arrested one person in Havering and nobody in Redbridge. How do you judge the impact of a large-scale operation like that against the resource costs?

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

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

• Reference: 2012/0062-2
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I have spoken with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime with regard to collocation of emergency service provision in London. In the intervening period, the Deputy Commissioner obviously put out some ideas about some fairly major, fairly significant changes in the headquarters element of the estate plan. Could you expand a little bit about where you envisage some of those kind of senior management or centralised management functions being physically located and what thoughts you had given to sharing real estate with other emergency and public services in terms of locating those?

• Reference: 2012/0064-2
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Well, these are questions that arise from issues and it is really for both of you. I am very concerned, and I have raised the question with the Mayor on a couple of occasions, about the increasing percentage of matters that do not go to trial. Your officers spend a great deal of time, a great deal of expense, catching criminals, banging them up, getting them charged, and then the matter does not go to trial. For example, in London there is a gap between cracked trials and trials, which, for some other reason, do not go ahead because they...

• 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...

• Reference: 2012/0050-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I think my colleagues may have picked some of the cherries out of this by the time I got here. Just to explore the targets, first of all, Deputy Commissioner, let us talk about the culture that target-setting creates. How do you make sure that the targets which you set drive performance and measure performance rather than create incentives to do things that we would not want people to do, make people focus in the wrong direction or even dare I say it fabricate results?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

We accept the view, which has been expressed by the Mayor, which we directly elected members, we take the view that the most important thing for our boroughs is that there is a designated chief officer of whatever rank who is going to be responsible for the borough. That is key to us. If the Mayor says that he is going to do that, we certainly accept that. There is one additional thing that I want to raise with you in relation to this, is it not a fact that in many boroughs, certainly at night, in effect they operate...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

Obviously you have quite a bit of flexible working between boroughs and within your own service. Are you looking at more flexible working with shared services involving the other emergency services?