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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: 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: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you assure us that you will stay with the evidence base that this development is predicated on?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

We will be looking for the rationale that you have used.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

It is my understanding that it is due for publication so if that could be checked. If you gather this information about this most important topic, then surely it should be published.

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

Would you support completely independent statistics in future?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Commissioner, I understand that the Metropolitan Police Service is currently conducting research into the reasons for the disproportional amount of stops, arrests and charges for the African Caribbean community. Can you confirm that this report is due for publication soon, and will you be fronting up that publication and enabling a widespread, really good debate about that report?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Basically Graham Tope asked the question in exactly the same form as I would have asked it and I was actually very pleased with your response. I think it is hugely dangerous to demonise younger people, and I think even right down to the things like the curfews, in addition to what Graham Tope said, I think these are a problem issue for the police, are they not, and it is a situation where really it almost has a massive impact on your ability to engage with young people?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

In Australia, when first of all they were talking about bringing in a similar system to the one proposed in Britain ' which is quite invasive in terms of the amount of material kept on the card ' initially there was public support. After it became apparent what was going to happen, public support collapsed, and then the police weighed in and said this might cost far more in resources to deal with the likely aggravation. I think really that is what I am getting to. It is like the poll tax. Nobody thought beforehand, everybody thought `what a marvellous...