• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): Do you have any views on that, Stephen?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I had a process question, which is one of the reasons I am on this earth, or indeed on this Committee. It is about the Police and Crime Plan. I was really taken aback by something you said, Mr Greenhalgh, which is about how are you going to reach hard-to-reach groups. This is a statutory document, a statutory plan, it cements the relationship between you and him [The Commissioner] in a very public fashion. I had assumed you would have a plan, a project plan if you like, as to how you are going to roll this out. You have...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

My point relates to the Local Policing Model and goes back to Safer Neighbourhood Teams, or should I say Area Teams for discussion. Really, on the rationale of amalgamating ward-based Safer Neighbourhood Teams, in the Crime and Policing Plan it will be the broad thrust of it, what consultation is going to take place at local level about deciding -- I think earlier you, Deputy Mayor, said, 'There might well be a single one in a town centre depending on crime levels', I am not sure if it was the Commissioner or you, 'or it might be a number coming...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Just to go back briefly, I have two questions if I may please, just to go back and follow up what Len just said about sector inspectors. The working group chair in Kensington and Chelsea recently wrote to us because they had nine sector inspectors over a very recent period of time. I just want to sort of reiterate that the confidence or the feeling that gives about the Metropolitan Police Service, about changing culture, where there is a constant staff changeover, you know, obviously inevitably there is a feeling of one is losing out on experienced corporate memory and...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I just wanted to make one comment on the consultation programme. I am going to agree with Caroline that an hour per borough seems quite short. How are you going to demonstrate that you have listened to people, because obviously the real way that you can demonstrate that consultation is meaningful is by demonstrating that you have taken comments onboard? Are you going to allow room for change if after what is an extensive consultation you find that you do not have the support for the plan that you are obviously hoping to get?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I have three quick points. Can we go back to earlier on about the labelling and the various boxes? Let us not deal with the 6,000-odd officers that you are looking at and analysing some of the issues that you said we wanted to be careful about taking decisions in relation to those. Let us concentrate on the 2,000 officers which presumably are the ones that you are going to be implementing for April 2013. I presume both of you want an honest debate with Londoners about the provision of policing. I cannot quite see Stephen's nod but I take...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Yes, this is interesting. This has really come as a bit of a bombshell because much of the consultation and the discussion which has taken place up until now has been predicated on the proposal that there is going to be increasing co-operation between boroughs and that there may well be a change in the rank of the person who is in charge in a particular borough. I can tell you of the meetings that I have been at that this has been something quite considerable. You have told us today that effectively everything is back in the melting pot...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

Of course, Lord Justice Leveson will be commenting about the policing relationships with the media and he will also be commenting about politicians' relationships with the media. Can we ask, Chair, both for yourself and the Mayor about the transparency of relationships, about meeting with the press? Of course, it is much more difficult for the Mayor but, clearly, if the police are going to be undertaking some duties, what is MOPAC doing? We are meant to be overseeing you in terms of those relationships. Can you come back to this Committee if it is appropriate about how you plan...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

Very quickly, on the compensation issue of any compensation paid, look, you are making massive cuts to our services here in London. I hope that you are going to recover any monies that have to be paid, if they are paid eventually, from the owner of this or from the Association of Chief Police Officers Terrorism and Allied Matters (ACPO TAM) who were meant to be supervising these officers. I do not think the MPS should be paying for that and I hope it is not going to be further cuts. We need to follow that and MOPAC needs to...

• 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?