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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Can I ask the Deputy Commissioner for a point of clarification on the Leveson recommendations? To what extent are they applicable to British publications getting hacked material from abroad?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

We have already had it rolled out to outer London boroughs like Havering, Barking, Dagenham, Enfield and Kingston. I just want to know what consultation engagement has been carried out in the boroughs about increasing the availability of Tasers?

• Reference: 2012/0060-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Commissioner, if I was a serving officer, I would be really worried about the future of my service. Certainly, from a survey that was done in November, there is that low morale in the service and in the Metropolitan Police Service. On 21 November, you told a BBC Radio 5 live interviewer that indeed there was low morale in the service. Can you share with us what you are doing about that? I mean, in the midst of this storm or tsunami of all the political interference and redrafting of the service, what are you doing to support the staff...

• Reference: 2012/0054-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

The question, if I can start to the Deputy Commissioner, it is regarding the English Defence League (EDL) march planned for 27 October 2012, this Saturday coming, and its impact on the borough. It is planning to march in Waltham Forest, a borough I represent, its impact on Islington, the neighbouring borough, I also represent, but the other boroughs affected are Tower Hamlets and Newham. I wonder if the Deputy can just give us an update, knowing that the Metropolitan Police Service has now joined others, I have to say, from my point of view, a bit late in the...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I will happily join Jennette on Saturday as well. Can I firstly welcome the MPS' support of the ban promoted by Waltham Forest, though it is very late in the day. Is the real issue here not essentially that the MPS still does not think the EDL is part of the far right? We had Sir Paul Stephenson in September 2009, the then-Police Commissioner, suggesting to the MPA that the EDL is not viewed as an extreme right-wing group in the accepted sense?

• Reference: 2012/0044-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Deputy, we know that a letter has gone from the Commissioner [Bernard Hogan-Howe] to local authorities with a document attached that sets out proposals about how savings might be made, including looking at management costs, supervision ratios and a number of areas. It also sets out a new model in policing terms and makes reference to a basic command unit which will vary in size and shape. Are you able to just help us with your definition about what a basic command unit is?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Yes, Chair, thank you for that. I just wanted to clarify, and it is the point that Jenny has made. To so many people, when we talk about deaths in police custody, we include deaths associated with police contact. The public does not get into the sophistication of whether somebody died in the cell, it is if the police are there and they have arrested somebody or they have something to do with it and a death occurs, then that really is what is so alarming to us generally, to us all. If I could go specifically to members of...

• Reference: 2012/0040-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Chair, it is just a quick question, and it goes back I think to where Steve [O'Connell] started. Commissioner, what I just wanted to raise with you was, as well as the Olympics, and I welcome the assurances that you have given from where you are at the moment, it is summer time, even though it is so wet out there, and during this time there would normally be contingency plans for events that happen, certainly in some boroughs that I am familiar with, over that summer period. You would normally, I know in the boroughs I represent, they would...

• Reference: 2012/0028-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

The other part of it we have touched on, London's diverse communities. You gave a reasonable answer to your position on equality and diversity in your confirmation hearing. However, given that one of the key areas of concerns within many of the ethnic minority communities is the relationship with the police, is about their operational activities, what is your thinking so far to date about where your positioning will be?

• Reference: 2012/0030-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

I have to start by saying that these were operational concerns that we had regarding the recent allegations made against the Metropolitan Police Service and the management performance of the Sapphire Unit. I will then have to start off by asking the Deputy Mayor does he feel that he is in a position to answer questions about the operation or functionality of the Metropolitan Police Service Sapphire Unit. If he is not, then basically I will have to pass on my question.