• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

There are the Leveson recommendations and then there are things that the police can do over and above Leveson themselves. If we go to the heart of the issues of investigating the rich and powerful, the checks and balances on judgement calls. From the original investigation of limiting to the few - not going in and looking at the wider evidence but it sits there in a room or whatever - to other issues of when you do the recall are the checks and balances internally and judgement calls about investigating issues. Is there something more that the police can...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

I am going to move on to a few questions about community safety funding, if I may, and I wanted to ask the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. Obviously we have seen some of the criteria that have come through in the letter that has been sent out from you and London Councils to councils. The first question was how MOPAC selected the criteria under which the decisions on allocating community safety funding were selected and what consultation if any you made in determining the criteria with relevant stakeholders who were applying for funding.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

This is an incredibly difficult area because in fact you do not want to stop whistle-blowers. You do not want to stop the police officers who are reporting on illegal activities within the Metropolitan Police Service. You want them to come forward. At the same time, you do not want false allegations leaked. In the past, the Metropolitan Police Service has had incidents where that has happened and officers do not seem to have been published. We have the de Menezes stuff and we have the Tomlinson stuff. Metropolitan Police Service officers have got away with false allegations or false...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Obviously because the time has slipped for getting bids in to you by the end of February but the schemes are going to be starting in April, the new financial year, it does not give them very much leeway. Will you be giving them some extra leeway in how they can deliver those schemes?

• 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...