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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

-- 32% of licensed premises were found to be selling to under 18s. I am just wondering where that is in your priorities, and what resources you are putting in to that area?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

The final area I want to explore with regard to children - young people binge-drinking is underage drinking. I think from the figures that I have, the number of underage children that are drinking has remained about steady for the last 10 to 15 years, but the amount of alcohol they are drinking has almost doubled in that period, and also, you touched on this earlier, that alcohol-fuelled crime, and I know that from some of the operations that have taken place with the police and local boroughs that, for example, over the Christmas and New Year period, I understand...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Obviously the police are not the sole practitioners anyway. A lot will fall on local boroughs as licensing authorities, and could you just tell me if there is any advice that you are giving to local forces as to how they deal with their local boroughs, and do you believe there are any gaps in London where that partnership is not working, and what advice are you giving to fill those gaps?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

On the issue of enforcing those licensing laws, can I just have your views about what effect you believe the new licensing laws will have in terms of effective policing and the use of police resources? Perhaps you could also tell us a little bit about whether you think the new Violent Crime Reduction Bill, which gives the police extra powers in respect of premises, will help you in that fight?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I was very keen to ask this question because I was hoping I would get that sort of answer, which is that I think there is a hell of a lot of good work in this area - and let us be very clear this is not a party political question because there are, I think when you are honest about this, Labour boroughs who are good, there are some who are less good, there are Conservative boroughs who are good and there are some who are less good. What worries me in your answer is that, whilst I agree...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Commissioner, you mentioned again a term you used to use about the Balkanisation of policing services. You were always opposed to the accreditation of local authority run neighbourhood wardens or whatever term they use in parks police. Are you reconsidering that view, and will you allow accreditation in London as in the rest of the country?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It does, and I can go on but if you have got anything to tell me other than you have already told Tony Arbour, who asked my question under a supplementary, please do. If you do not, may I explore another area?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you. Safer Neighbourhood Policing is your baby. It is your stamp as the new Commissioner and it is your stamp on policing in London. Therefore, if you cannot get enough money for an expansion of neighbourhood policing, your reputation is at risk. Are you sure that you are actually going to get 6,000 PCSOs paid for from the Home Office?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

No, sorry, our experience on the ground is obviously different.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I noted in the budgetary implications of this sort of requirement and for Safer Neighbourhood teams ' and this question is meant to be helpful ' that in Croydon, and it's something which I have noted from other colleagues, there was quite a resource re-allocation to fulfil the commitments on PCSOs. Indeed petitions I presented earlier were linked with the withdrawal of some police officers from other areas so as to deliver on the PCSO teams or the Safer Neighbourhood team project. Has that been a trend elsewhere, other than in Croydon? I ask the question really to get a...