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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I think Londoners will welcome your condemning Christopher Grayling, Boris, as Chair, because --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you accept that you played your role in misleading the public in terms of what you had to say before you were elected? In fact it seems to me, on reading Sir Ian's [Blair] [former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service] book, that you were willing to say absolutely anything to get yourself elected. I quote him when he said, 'You cannot go on talking down the fall in crime in London which they have achieved, they need to know you care about them and the way that we can work together.' You looked him straight in the face and replied...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I ask, Sir Paul, there has been comment this last week about the use of cautions - I know it is something that you have raised as well - which goes straight to, I think, the confidence in policing. Do you agree with the Director of Public Prosecutions that no offence above the level of common assault should be dealt with by a caution?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I want to pick up on a couple of those issues. Firstly, Mayor, in your manifesto you said that you supported neighbourhood policing and would put the necessary resources into safer neighbourhood teams. We have heard about the concerns about restriction of public finances. I am just wondering are you committed to retaining Safer Neighbourhood Teams in every ward in London?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Good morning, Mr Mayor. My concern here regards confidence in the police. This will tie in with other Members who have mentioned the cautioning. I have statistics here in front of me that were brought to my notice during the [Assembly's] Budget and Performance Monitoring Sub-Committee. I appreciate both the Mayor and also yourself, Commissioner, have mentioned there are still problems that we have to face regarding burglary and also regarding violent crime. What I do have concerns about, and this is relating to the confidence in the police; it says that it has gone up 2% in the last...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

May I say I believe it to be extremely mean-minded of Jennette Arnold to criticise you, Mr Mayor, in acting on behalf of the citizenry of London. I have to say that when you as super-Mayor intervened earlier last week, my heart lifted, and I very much hope that that is going to be an example to Londoners in the future and I very much hope that we do not get prosecutions by police of those good citizens --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I just follow on and pick up the themes about reputational damage and confidence. I wanted to start with the Commissioner, just to ask whether he wanted to use this opportunity to assure us about how widespread the work is, across London, about the issue of confidence. When you think that in the paper yesterday we saw reports that one of your departments sent out a note asking for the images of police in the public domain to be deleted and only images that presented the police in a good light to be used, have you got anything to...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Apart from areas where you have got terms and conditions that you cannot change, are you expecting every single part of the Metropolitan Police Service to make 5% to 10% cuts? Are there any areas where there will not be cuts?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

This is probably more a question aimed at the Commissioner. My friend and colleague, Roger [Evans], has already highlighted one of the regular concerns expressed by outer London boroughs, which is the balance of police numbers compared with some of the inner London boroughs. Linked to that is the effect that abstractions have on the outer London boroughs. Within Met Forward are there any plans to look at impact assessment for abstractions, particularly as we move towards, in the next couple of years, a number of very large and very high profile public order policing events; Jubilee, the Olympics etc...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Sir Paul, in a few weeks' time we will be heading towards the Christmas and the New Year festive season and, as you know, as in previous years, this has placed a huge strain on the resources around excessive alcohol incidents in the night time economy and, in my constituency, I have the largest night time economy outside the West End. What plans are afoot and what steer are you giving to your borough commanders to address this seasonal problem?