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  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Thank you for the way that you answered John Biggs' question. In light of your answer, will you go away and reflect to see that it is appropriate, and I might have some sentiments about where you think the outcome of things may go, for you or your office to talk to a potential suspect, even though you have nor role at all, but you may have information and be given information in briefings, during a criminal investigation? Will you go away to reflect?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: James Cleverly
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, it is quite clear the implication that a number of members opposite are trying to make in their line of questioning. Rather than dancing around the issue and trying to muddy water, I would like to ask you a very explicit question, which I think is the question that they were trying to ask. Have you shared any operationally sensitive material that you may have received in your capacity as Chair of the MPA with Damian Green MP?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Mr Mayor, I would like to agree with you that this does look a disproportionate use of police powers, albeit within the law. Can I just remind you that they also use other powers disproportionately? If you are gong to perhaps start to look at what powers they have used and whether it is disproportionate, perhaps you will also like to look at the use of Section 60 [of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994], which is entirely beyond what was expected when that law was enacted. I would say it is an abuse of the law that...

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    This is a question for the Acting Commissioner. Acting Commissioner, various of my constituents have reminded me that one of the platforms on which we were elected to the Assembly in May was common sense policing in London. Can I put it to you, would you consider the definition of 'common sense policing' to include the infringement of deeply entrenched centuries old constitutional privileges of a Member of the House of Commons?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    I want to ask on the Baby P inquiry. I should say I am the Assembly Member for Enfield and Haringey. Although I know some of the people involved I have not been involved myself. I am glad to hear, Sir Paul that you said there will be a London-wide review and you have taken some action London wide. It seems to me that some of the things that I have heard about the review so far have been about lack of communication and the same issues that have happened before in other tragic circumstances. Can I just ask, in...

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Yes, this is a question for Chair of the MPA. Under the previous Commissioner and now with this latest Damian Green case we have had a series of high profile cases where the judgement of senior Metropolitan Police officers has been called into question. What needs to be done to improve public confidence in the judgment of senior Metropolitan Police officers?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Can I welcome the remarks from Sir Paul Stephenson clarifying matters. I do welcome part of some of your remarks around where the police must be allowed to carry on and see this through, and at the appropriate time people will come back and look at it. In light of that, do you think it was appropriate to share your comments publicly about the ongoing police investigation was right?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    Can I welcome the decision to set up an urgent review of what has happened so far, to report back within the next couple of weeks? Can I invite the Commissioner to share the terms of reference of that review with us?

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    This is a question for the Chairman of the Police Authority. Do you not think that in the Green matter the Commissioner was between a rock and a hard place? Whatever he did was going to be seen to be wrong. By acting in the way he did he has been seen as the tool of the Government. Had he not acted in that way he would have been seen to be protecting a Conservative Member of Parliament. In the light of that, do you not think now will be an appropriate time for the Metropolitan Police Authority to press...

  • Oral Update (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    A question for the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority: Many of my constituents were delighted to see the departure of the former Commissioner. You are now engaged in recruitment of the new one. Those same constituents have been horrified to see the scenes on television of Metropolitan Police officers acting in a way that would not go amiss in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Will you ensure that candidates for the top job at the Metropolitan Police are those who are not going to carry on this system of working and that those candidates who are busy running to the media -...