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  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    Chair, I think we should congratulate the police on the success that they have had in detection and prevention so far, and I think you mentioned a couple of the cases, and obviously prevention always happens; success is quiet in this context, and failure is very, very, very loud and public. Are you satisfied with both the current legislative context in which you have to work to do this prevention and detection, and what is your view of the Government's proposed control orders?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    Certainly nothing has changed in recent weeks or months to alter that?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    I think you share that information with Government?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    I am sure with the Chair of the [Metropolitan Police]Authority?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Graham Tope
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    ): I recall two or three years ago, David Veness (former Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Operations, MPS) saying that his biggest problem was the management of complacency, and both of you this morning have referred to that. In that context, how do we know, and how can we convince people, whether the lack of a terrorist incident is due to the success of the anti-terrorist measures or whether the threat is actually being exaggerated, perhaps in the competition for scarce resources?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    Absolutely, and I imagine also with the Mayor?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    It would certainly not be your assessment, then, that the terrorist threat is only `a few dozen people'?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    I am grateful. Therefore, the Mayor, when he made that assertion recently, clearly was completely wrong?

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    I will not press you further. I know that is not the purpose of your position.

  • Terrorism Threat to London (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    If asked, that is certainly the advice you would give to the Mayor today?