• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

That is an assessment that you will have shared with the Mayor?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

That is your continuing assessment?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

If asked, that is certainly the advice you would give to the Mayor today?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I will not press you further. I know that is not the purpose of your position.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I am grateful. Therefore, the Mayor, when he made that assertion recently, clearly was completely wrong?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It would certainly not be your assessment, then, that the terrorist threat is only `a few dozen people'?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Absolutely, and I imagine also with the Mayor?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

): I recall two or three years ago, David Veness (former Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Operations, MPS) saying that his biggest problem was the management of complacency, and both of you this morning have referred to that. In that context, how do we know, and how can we convince people, whether the lack of a terrorist incident is due to the success of the anti-terrorist measures or whether the threat is actually being exaggerated, perhaps in the competition for scarce resources?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I am sure with the Chair of the [Metropolitan Police]Authority?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I think you share that information with Government?