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• Reference: 2013/0001
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 January 2013

How do you intend to use police resources more efficiently over the next three years?

• 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...

• Reference: 2012/0039-2
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Returning if I may to the effects, Commissioner, of the G4S ineptitude on the boroughs. I am pleased to hear your professional judgment that you expect perhaps no further draw or demand upon those resources, but clearly that remains to be seen as it plays out. However, I respect your opinion on that. Something that worries many residents is around the pressure on the Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT). The Mayor has given a commitment that the Safer Neighbourhood Teams will be staffed during this period. But remember they are starting from quite a low base at the moment, already the...

• Reference: 2012/0042-2
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

When the last Government decided to set up LOCOG as a private company rather than a public agency, it was sold as a way of speeding up their procurement. After extensive questioning from all sides of this Assembly, it now appears that the motive may have been to escape the sort of standards of transparency that one would have expected from public bodies. Can you tell me, have you ever expressed dissatisfaction with the timing or quality of the information coming from LOCOG?

• Reference: 2012/0020-2
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): I am grateful, Chair. Commissioner, this matter of PCSOs is really exercising the public of London. Obviously you have a lot more to do, but unfortunately there is a lot of misleading information out there and it is very good that you have, this morning, spelt out some of the reality. First of all you talked about the recruitment of new warranted officers from PCSOs which depleted the warranted officers but the main contact that the public seemed to have with the police, from the feedback I get, is when your fairly junior officers go out to...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

It is obvious just from looking at the media coverage that different tactics were used on the ground in different places, and some with a greater level of success than others. In Romford we had some prior notice that this was going to happen by maybe extrapolating the events from the night before in the way that Darren has mentioned, but also information on social media, and that enabled our fairly far-sighted borough commander, Mike Smith, to put measures in place to ask businesses to close early and to deploy his officers at Romford Station, where the considerable police presence...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Acting Commissioner, first of all, congratulations on the level of arrests and the speed with which you have been doing that. The public are right behind you, as far as I hear. I represent the Clapham Junction area of Battersea, and we have been out talking to a lot of residents there, particularly, in many cases, fairly young ones. They say that they had been picking up a lot of intelligence from the likes of Facebook, Twitter and so on some hours before Clapham Junction blew up and, indeed, over the days before. You have already talked as the Chairman...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Will our two witnesses accept that London owes them personally a deep debt of gratitude for the leadership they showed in August; Mr Malthouse in filling the vacuum of political leadership, and you, Mr Godwin, in providing leadership? Can I also pay tribute to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh, who played a leading role and was excellent on the media, and to my own Borough Commander in Barnet, Chief Superintendant Basu, who played a blinder, which meant we had no trouble in Barnet. My question is to Mr Godwin. Other than increased budgets, because every officer always wants increased...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

): First of all, Acting Commissioner, again I would like to repeat the acknowledgement of the bravery of officers that night over in Croydon, Sutton and across London. I have been looking forward to the inquiry and the review and the evidence that will be given to that inquiry from this building and elsewhere. A couple of the points I would like to explore have already been touched upon by both of you. Clearly, from a Croydon point of view, Croydon and Tottenham and one or two others were the most seriously affected. Clearly, I have a lot of knowledge...