• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I think Londoners will be pleased to hear the reassurance from the Commissioner that speed cameras are there for public safety rather than to raise revenue. One of the more positive initiatives has been to paint speed cameras yellow so that they act as an aid to safety rather than as a money raiser. Will you undertake to do what you can to ensure that the Mayor's new mobile speed cameras are also painted yellow and highlighted so that they contribute to safety improvements in London and are not just seen as a way of raising money? ... mobile speed...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I wanted to give either the Commissioner or the Chair an opportunity perhaps to amend a false impression that has been created in the media recently that the police are in some way opposed to traffic calming. Certainly my post-bag tells me that this is an issue that people are very anxious about in the community; I think Jenny is absolutely right about that. Secondly, where boroughs seem in my view to be ill-advisedly removing traffic calming, might the police take a view as to whether those boroughs are being unhelpful in their role of protecting public safety.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

You mentioned the debate at the moment about the use of safety cameras. I wonder if it is time you actually stood up and said safety cameras are there to save lives; it is speed that kills and not safety cameras. Is that something you would be prepared to make a statement on?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

A couple of years ago I went around to about a third of the boroughs to talk to the borough commanders about the issue of road crime and ask them what resources they were putting towards road safety. At the time they said it was not a priority for them, although they would love to do it and saw the value. It is now a priority for the Met, but I still do not see any real understanding of that in the boroughs. What can you do about it personally, Commissioner?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

One of the reasons I put this question is because when we actually got the Met to take up the reduction of road death and casualties as a priority I really felt that the argument had been won. However, I still do not see the results in the boroughs. Are there resources going to the boroughs for this or not?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Roger Evans (AM): Do you think it is a good thing in principle?