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• Reference: 2007/0108-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

How do you intend to fulfill the promise of a bonfire of bureaucracy?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you. Can I turn to another set of statistics which I know that quite a number of your officers are busy out today collecting across London? I myself saw a census point as I came to work and I know other colleagues have seen them as well. We are not due a national census for another two or three years as I understand it, so what is this census as a result of which so many of your officers are involved in pulling cars over this morning?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you for that. I think a lot of it is also about public perception but also what other people say. I heard on the Today programme once Glen Smythe who is the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation saying, `The level of crime reported is far below that which really happens and the whole process is underplayed for political reasons'. I am link member on the MPA for Kensington and Chelsea and the Chair of the Police and Community Consultative Group (PCCG) there is constantly concerned with regard to, say, carnival that the level of reporting of crime is...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Would you, Commissioner, please comment on the misuse of statistics yesterday by the Mayor who said of the police force in Kingston that they were 14 times more likely to stop black people than white people, and that black people in Richmond were 13 times more likely to be stopped than white people? Would you explain how this has occurred and make it crystal clear that there is absolutely no question that the police in both of these fine Boroughs are doing anything which could conceivably be said to be discriminatory?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I am sure it is right to do that because, leaving aside the question of the overground railway simply because they work on the Tube and the buses. Clearly, we all know that after 10.00 pm is very often one of the times when people most want to see a visible uniformed presence. I am wondering, given this difficulty which I hope can be resolved, and given the fact we have had to go through this sort of negotiation, would it perhaps in retrospect have been better to advise the Mayor to put in the money for fully warranted officers...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you very much. Can I come back to Lord Tope's questions about shift patterns and so on for PCSOs and in particular in relation to their work on the overground railway. You will remember that there was some discussion of this at the September MPA meeting and the particular concern I have is that at the moment of course y it involves PCSOs finishing at 10.00 pm. Tim Godwin (Assistant Commissioner) told the Police Authority on 28 September that if they worked after 10.00 pm in the evening, staff would be entitled to an increase in salary which was...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There are pressures which you face immediately financially with a poorer and poorer settlement, and indeed the issues which are over the horizon - clearly the Olympic Games will be a major issue for the Metropolitan Police Service itself - current pressure on terrorism, and indeed the growing focus on clear up rates - how many crimes are resolved and result in a punishment - that continues to grind. We had the Home Secretary yesterday talking about the broad failure of the probation service and we know the impact that has on recidivism within the service. Are you resilient enough...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The actual quote was `even a whelk stall has an accountant', and you did not.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Is the command structure of policing in London robust enough to meet the challenges of the next five years?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There is both revenue and capital. Are you capitalised enough to meet the current demand?