• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I wonder if you would consider cross-cutting indicative policing numbers for overground rail companies, so you could guide them into what you would expect, if TfL were the franchising body in this respect.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

To ensure better coordination of the policing of TfL services, would you support the transfer of the BTP officers assigned to Croydon Tramlink for their funding to the London Underground division?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

In the answer to the question to Joanne McCartney, if we could refer her to the Department for Transport of September 2004, they have actually already done a review of BTP, and maybe if we had joined up government between yourselves, the Members opposite, and the Government, we could actually save some money and stop doing extra reviews. Why do we not just look at this one and adopt that, rather than go through planted questions with the other side, so you can expand your empire?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

In the light of the failure of CCTV cameras at Wood Street station ( a station in my constituency where there was the recent fatal stabbing ) will you join me in pressing for every possible step to be taken to ensure that where CCTV is in place, it is fully operational?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

One of the concerns about Train Operating Companies (TOCs) funding a policing initiative is that they run services which travel, in some instances, quite a long way outside the boundaries of London. How would you make sure ' in this contract proposal which sounds good on the face of it ' that the money that they provided would be used for policing stations in London, and the resources would not be going further afield?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I think all Londoners would agree that this is a critical issue - safety in public places, and the fact that many of our National Rail stations are dingy, poorly lit, insecure places that people quite often go out of their way not to use, because of their sense of insecurity. I was wondering if you would be prepared to name and shame operating companies which are doing least in this area, and perhaps, at the same time, applaud the good work of some of those who are doing quite good work. I think that Southern, for example, has at...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

They might even find, Chair, that people start using their services in greater numbers if they feel more secure on them. Would you be interested in exploring the extension of the Transport Operational Command Unit (TOCU) pilot into National Rail services, where cooperative rail companies indicate they are prepared to support that?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

One of the successes of the late, lamented Connex South East was actually to encourage their staff, particularly the drivers, to become special constables. Is that something you would take up with the train operating companies and encourage them there, because Connex certainly said it made a significant difference to - not just having them as special constables, but actually to the observations that their staff made as trained constables?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Can I take you back to answer you gave to Jennette Arnold on CCTV. Not too long ago, a London bus driver was stabbed in an incident of road rage, which no doubt, you will recall. The CCTV system on his bus did not work. As Chairman of TfL, would you accept the same sort of responsibility which you wish to impose upon the train companies?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Even with the bus TOCU, your officers found themselves enforcing lane discipline amongst the contractors at Vauxhall Cross when work was being done there, which I do not think had originally been envisaged. How would you make sure that the officers are used for the purposes that you intend them for, and they do not get diverted onto making sure other people are doing the jobs they should be doing?