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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Clearly, the Wildlife Unit doesn't figure high on your radar screen, and maybe the aspirations of the Borough Command Units and the people of Bromley, and indeed an expansion of the Wildlife Units could be achieved if the target which you, the Home Secretary, and indeed the Mayor have talked about - some 35,000 officers in London - were to change from an aspiration to a real target. On 14 February, the Mayor said that he will need the agreement and backing of Government. And today I am calling on the Home Secretary to agree with me that we should...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Given that that is a list of those who are exerting pressures on the Police Service in London, why do you not accept the premise of the question?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

One of the other sets of pressures which will exert itself on the Police Service is from the Government of the day. Yesterday, your Labour Chairman, John Reid said that Labour was not infallible on law and order, and indeed accepted that there were a number of failed initiatives over the last five years since you were in power. He said we should be prepared to say, "We tried that and it did not work". If one looks at the number of issues that haven't worked, you could include the child curfews - none of which have been imposed -...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Given your closeness to the preparation of that gracious speech, do you expect those directions to be targeting the criminal, rather than the crime, or do you expect it to impose yet more statistics, which the Home Office can fiddle?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

We talk about 250 officers, 240 officers from the boroughs, and backfilling with new recruits to cover the officers on the traffic issues. We've also talked on the MPA of some 400 officers to backfill for the special operations. And we've talked of, only last Friday, of experienced traffic officers being pulled and backfilling again within the boroughs, which if you add those simple numbers together it comes to some 880 officers backfilled. We also know, that there's 1,000 new officers gone to boroughs over the course of this year. A simple calculation tells me that some boroughs could be...

• Reference: 2001/0279-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is Lord Harris happy with the financial settlement for the MPS as announced by the Chancellor in November? .

• Reference: 2001/0280-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Does Lord Harris believe that the November 2001 financial settlement will address the last four years of under-funding of the MPS by the Government? .

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

You touched briefly, Toby, on the definitions of deaths in custody and the very broadness of that definition. The general public would regard custody as being in the care, protection and control of the police, yet when there's a death in custody that takes a far, far broader definition. Do you think that definition should be changed so that the police cease being pilloried for things which are often beyond their control and circumstances which are beyond their control? Secondly, do you think it appropriate that individual members of the MPA should make public statements or issue press releases or...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

My Lord, members have wickedly and unfairly endeavoured to malign and treat badly the noble and liberal Lord Tope of Sutton whose borough received no increase in officers. Will you actually join me and recognise that the noble and liberal Lord Tope of Sutton actually did chair the process to the best of his ability?