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• Reference: 2020/4244
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Have Londoners been safer in this Mayoral term?

• Reference: 2019/20082
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

What can the Metropolitan Police learn from recent events to meet the challenges of the future?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Just returning briefly to your exchange with Joanne [Joanne McCartney AM] regarding buses in outer London, something I have been banging on about for some considerable time, speaking for, for example, Sutton - and just for once I will not mention the tram, although I just did - it is particularly poorly served by public transport. Joanne probably hit the nail on the head. Looking at increasing services in outer London in a zero-sum game is naturally going to lead to potential reductions elsewhere. Really, what I want to hear from you, Mr...

• Reference: 2018/2950
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Are you satisfied with your record on tackling crime?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: Just very briefly, for the Commissioner, I may have misheard but I did ask a specific question about the £160 million announcement. I know there is not a lot of detail around it, but I would be interested in your observations.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: I do not have much time on this. Let us get back to the amount of shortfall. We have heard, Mr Mayor, £300 million capital and £21 million and perhaps rising on revenue. That would be public money to finish that, would that be correct?

• Reference: 2017/5311
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

"How will the Met adapt to changing threats over the next decade?"

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: You touched upon confidence within the communities earlier. This is a question for the Commissioner. I was with the Borough Commander in Croydon a few weeks ago. We had a public meeting in Norbury where they lost a young man through knife crime some weeks before, very well attended it was too. What are you asking your Borough Commanders to do regarding building trust with communities and perhaps disaffected youth in those boroughs.

• Reference: 2017/2613
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 06 July 2017

What does the future hold for the Metropolitan Police Service?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 06 July 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: It is 52 seconds. Just referring back to Navin’s [Shah AM] comment again, like other colleagues back in 2011 I was on a front line at Croydon, North End, when things were going very badly. I got a call from a councillor in New Addington saying, “It is going very badly up here”. I called your predecessor, “Can we have some help?” The answer ‑ he is a great guy ‑ was, “We do not have anybody”. That was a very difficult time for all of London. Can you reassure me, my residents and other residents in...