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• 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: 2009/0170-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

What provision has the Brigade made for emergency fire cover in the case of industrial dispute, given the removal of military support by Government?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

This is a question for the Commissioner. I do not know if you are aware of this, Commissioner, but on 25 November a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, one Lynne Featherstone, made a 999 call to the Fire Brigade, in which she said there was a terrible noise coming from the boilers in her basement, it sounded a bit like a pneumatic drill but worse. She thought something was going to blow up. The Fire Brigade turned up, punctually, rapidly as it usually does in matters of great emergencies and they discovered that it was an airlock in the central...