• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Given that the principle reason that the inspector turned this down was because it was in conflict with your London Plan, and indeed in direct conflict with four of your policies in the London Plan, are you not being a little inconsistent? You are not supporting your own plan and when an inspector supports your own plan, you want him to be overruled?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

These extra 375 officers which have been recruited. When are they envisaged to be in place?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

We will be looking for the rationale that you have used.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you very much. Can I come back to Lord Tope's questions about shift patterns and so on for PCSOs and in particular in relation to their work on the overground railway. You will remember that there was some discussion of this at the September MPA meeting and the particular concern I have is that at the moment of course y it involves PCSOs finishing at 10.00 pm. Tim Godwin (Assistant Commissioner) told the Police Authority on 28 September that if they worked after 10.00 pm in the evening, staff would be entitled to an increase in salary which was...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you assure us that you will stay with the evidence base that this development is predicated on?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A number of the issues I was going to raise have been dealt with but I wanted to ask about what the Commissioner has just said. TfL, as I understand it, are paying for the PCSOs and that is on the basis of the map of crime that they have, that is evidence based. It is about the boundaries. How then are you going to modify that? You have already taken on some views like Jo (McCartney) asking for an extension there. Do you not think it would be reasonable to stay with the evidence and so we know that...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A lot of the problems that occur associated with transport happen very late at night and in the early hours of the morning, often with dispersal, whether that is on late night buses or particularly with taxis and mini cabs. Will the PCSOs be available at those sort of hours to deal with those sort of problems?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can I just check, these are for outer London and I understand they are going to be based in certain boroughs but be a `transport flying squad' and go round where the need arises?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I take the point, wholly, that the train operating companies should be paying for their policing. Historically they do not. I do not think the public is going to be much impressed by this turf war.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Everybody agrees that it is desirable to have uniform presence of whatever form but, of course, the Mayor told us that the decision to go for 375 PCSOs as opposed to a different configuration, for example warranted officers, came on advice from yourself as Commissioner. What I am saying is, would it in retrospect have not been better to have employed fully warranted officers so that they would have the flexibility to work right the way through the night, particularly as I accept sometimes reassurance and good work that PCSOs do in communities - getting to know local people and...