• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

I think one of the problems with the Higgins Report is that there is still no recognition of the inadequate compensation arrangements for Camden residents, where they are going to be rehoused, the impact on the Drummond Street businesses that are going to be ruined, the lack of the mitigation measures for those who live near the works, that has not been covered in the Higgins Report at all.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Yes, Mr Mayor, I am very happy that you are seeking to recruit officers to replace the ones you have already cut. I think we all agree that we have to do our utmost to make sure that those new officers are representative of London’s communities. I know that is something that you feel strongly about as well. I was very concerned to read that according to the Metropolitan Police Service’s own Equalities Impact Assessment in January that currently the Metropolitan Police Service has a 10.5% of officers are black and minority ethnic (BAME).

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

I think people are also interested to know that when they dial 999 the police are going to turn up. You have what is called the ‘I call’ which means in most emergency calls the police have to turn up within 15 minutes, 90% of the time is your target, the ‘S call’ within an hour, 90% of the time. In Barnett for the last three months they have consistently failed to meet the targets for both I and S calls, second worst performance in the whole of London. What are you going to do about it?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, I am inclined to make judgements based on results. I hear from my Borough Commander in Wandsworth, which is apparently statistically the safest inner London borough, that in the last 12 months, and the Local Policing Model was introduced six months ago into Wandsworth, we have seen 400 fewer burglaries, 300 fewer robberies, 200 fewer thefts from vehicles and almost 200 fewer vehicles taken in the borough. Over the same period

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, are you aware that the reduction in PCSOs has happened, of course because quite a lot of them have been promoted and become fully warranted police officers, the good ones? Do you think we should be celebrating the fact that the Metropolitan Police Service is actually recruiting and promoting officers when so many other forces throughout the country are not doing that?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

A key part of local policing is the Safer Transport Teams who work closely with the Neighbourhood Police to ensure the bus network and transport hubs are safe. I understand in the next few weeks the Metropolitan Police Service will announce that the Safer Transport Police and the Traffic Police are to be merged into a Road and Transport Policing Command and as a result, we are looking at facing major cuts to police and PCSO numbers in the Safer Transport Teams.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

This raises a key question, does it not, Mr Mayor. Do you feel that the Metropolitan Police Service is fit for purpose in its current form?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, there are a lot of facts and figures and stories and all sorts of, information to be found still, however the police spent two days shredding ten years’ worth of documents from a top-secret anti-corruption unit within the Metropolitan Police Service. The then head of anti-corruption, when he heard that his work had been shredded, said it was ‘gold dust stuff’. How can you go to those lengths and spend all that money and it is not there? I am just amazed. In the past, you said a public inquiry into this whole issue was not necessary.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, do you share my disappointment that in the 18-month process by which the London Safety Plan 5 was produced, the 18 months, which Fiona Twycross described as ‘rushing it through’ but the 18-month process --

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, one of the causes of loss of bus services and delays is attacks on staff, which are currently running at a rate of four per day, according to TfL’s own figures. Obviously some of the routes in London are going to be worse for this than others, in much the way that bus crime attaches itself to certain routes. Will you ask the policing managers on buses to target some police resources at those places where our drivers are being assaulted or abused, so that we can actually put an end to this sort of behaviour which our...