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Question by:
Andrew Dismore
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Meeting date:
20 July 2016
Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chairman. You have probably anticipated partly what I am going to ask you about from your previous response. At the Police and Crime Committee on 28 January 2016 I was told by the then Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime [Stephen Greenhalgh] that the cost of the necessary uplift in the numbers of firearms officers would, quote, “not have an impact on neighbourhood policing”. However, at yesterday’s Police and Crime Committee, the Deputy Commissioner [Craig Mackey QPM, Deputy Commissioner, MPS] said that 500 sergeants and inspectors had been taken out of neighbourhood policing to fund...