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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Caroline Pidgeon (Deputy Chair): Specifically on this area, Craig, you are saying that this is still absolutely a consultation period that is going on but you could not confirm whether chief superintendent levels would stay at the borough commander. Is that really the case when we received an email in the last week relating to one borough, Southwark, where their newly appointed borough commander who was appointed with the firm intention to serve for three years has sadly emailed saying, 'As part of the budget cuts in response to the crisis, it has not been possible for the Metropolitan Police...

• 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: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Is one of the problems that you face the quickness and the speed of some decisions? I understand some of the options being discussed now were options that were discussed and, in my understanding, were put out for disposal, Woolwich Police Station, Thamesmead, on the basis that a new patrol base was found. It was on a proviso that counter services could be found in other locations. That was back in 2005 that decision, 2006. It was then stopped when Boris Johnson took over the Mayoralty because it was obviously in the list of others around that. Do you not...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Yes, Chair, thank you for that. I just wanted to clarify, and it is the point that Jenny has made. To so many people, when we talk about deaths in police custody, we include deaths associated with police contact. The public does not get into the sophistication of whether somebody died in the cell, it is if the police are there and they have arrested somebody or they have something to do with it and a death occurs, then that really is what is so alarming to us generally, to us all. If I could go specifically to members of...

• 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?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

I cannot think of a service of the police that is really - for all the changes, and things have changed from bad days in the past - but things have not really got better in terms of confidence in policing for a major section of society. Women cannot have much confidence with the different things going on. I think you alluded to the issue of the cultural changes, the supervision changes, we have done structural changes. Is it time now, with everything going on, to step back and think, 'Actually, let us rethink this completely'? We know that some...

• Reference: 2012/0037-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Commissioner, when were the Metropolitan Police Service first aware of problems with the private security firm Group 4 Security (G4S) and their ability to deliver their promised security complement?

• Reference: 2012/0038-2
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

I did want to pick up a question I had asked last month, we had the Diamond Jubilee, were there any particular operational issues that were learned, Commissioner, that you are then applying to the games themselves?