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• Reference: 2011/0116-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Can I open this session by putting the question to both of you: what are the key learning points and the next steps arising from the recent public disorder incidents in London? Can I ask the Acting Commissioner to start?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

I would like initially to thank you, Commissioner, for ensuring that the borough commanders in my part of London were able to, by having a show of strength, prevent any trouble in any of the boroughs which I represent, and I thank him for that. The question I would like to ask is probably one for Kit. One of the few positive things which has come out of this has been the demonstration that it is possible to cut through the red tape which there habitually is in bringing people to justice. The rapidity, swiftness and certainty of punishment has...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What age have they reached - not infancy?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I did not know London's topography changed that often. You said it is quite likely in a catastrophic incident that the advice will be to stay indoors, basically, but how will you manage a spontaneous, fear-led mass exodus, when people panic? What have you got in place for that?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

How would that information be made available to Londoners ' with road, rail, Tube closures so that you avoid that kind of human panic? If transport is running at any point, how are they going to receive those'?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Has, for example, something like a register of all the private coach operators in London been established? Has that all happened already?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Right, so that is about 10 years old.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Just following up on the points about spontaneous evacuation, as opposed to the formal evacuation plans, and if the plans to guide and inform people and all the rest of it did not work, could people expect formal restrictions on their movement in the event of a severe incident?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Would you agree that the BTP, CCTV systems, and communications systems on the Underground are actually an important part of protection, as well as evacuation plans?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Do you, therefore, think it is a problem that we are undersupplied with all of those resources on the over-ground system in London?