• 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?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

I just want to be absolutely clear on this, because you are saying there are a range of options, but the Metropolitan Police Service has a model, one Metropolitan Police Service model that has been approved by the MPS management board, which you have been consulting on, and in that model, the model has a basis of sharing chief superintendents across a number of boroughs. That is part of this model that you have consulted on, so it is one model that you are consulting on, not a range of options, is that right?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

Obviously you have quite a bit of flexible working between boroughs and within your own service. Are you looking at more flexible working with shared services involving the other emergency services?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

We accept the view, which has been expressed by the Mayor, which we directly elected members, we take the view that the most important thing for our boroughs is that there is a designated chief officer of whatever rank who is going to be responsible for the borough. That is key to us. If the Mayor says that he is going to do that, we certainly accept that. There is one additional thing that I want to raise with you in relation to this, is it not a fact that in many boroughs, certainly at night, in effect they operate...

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

The last MOPAC Challenge in October identified the issues around a very rapid increase in volume of theft from the person in the boroughs. Given the period of time, and it was an annual comparison with the previous year, there has been an explanation, but have you had a chance to drill deeper into why this has occurred in that period of time?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 October 2012

Can I ask what that will mean for resource allocation across the piece? We often hear particularly from different boroughs and from the police that when targets come down centrally you go after one crime type and then others suffer. Can I ask Craig Mackey what these targets could mean for resource allocation to deal with issues that Fiona [Twycross] and we would raise, perhaps domestic violence? Would it mean that other areas would not get the same priority?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

I cannot think of a service of the police that is really - for all the changes, and things have changed from bad days in the past - but things have not really got better in terms of confidence in policing for a major section of society. Women cannot have much confidence with the different things going on. I think you alluded to the issue of the cultural changes, the supervision changes, we have done structural changes. Is it time now, with everything going on, to step back and think, 'Actually, let us rethink this completely'? We know that some...