• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

How does this zero tolerance fit, then, with the police experiment in not arresting people in Brixton?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

There is a lot in what you say about the organisation with which a lot of people might agree. But what about the zero tolerance issue, for which I think you were praising ex-Mayor Giuliani when he was here? Do you support that in London as a solution to the rise in street crime?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Mr Mayor, I welcome your suggestion that the MPA should be abolished. I really feel that it has not served Londoners well. But we must not be unkind to it - can you think of any useful achievements by the MPA since its inception?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

From a personal point of view, I would like to see another rank introduced into the police service, so that those who are determined to pursue a career as a community police officer could be senior officers, earn more money and be properly valued. The last three or four weeks have seen the operation of the "Safer Streets" campaign, in which the Metropolitan Police has abstracted a number of officers into the eight inner-London boroughs, and which has resulted in an additional 4,000 arrests. Part of that process has been what I can only describe as a ratcheting up of...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Since you mention it, I would not mind having my book back. You notice that I wrote my name in it before I gave it to you. My point is very simple: that a myth and a legend is growing up - you are as much a victim of it as anyone else - and people are saying, "Why don't you do what they do in New York?", when it would on occasion be spectacularly inappropriate. It is very important that we find a way of having a sensible and informed debate for the public, instead of us all -...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I think that the Mayor's visit to Cuba was one of the highlights of these Assembly meetings - particularly for the female Members, if we recall a certain Daily Mail photograph. You seem to be vying with the Home Secretary as to whether the target is 40,000 or 42,000 police officers within five years. Have you any estimates of the likely cost of achieving that - not just the cost per police officer but in the whole infrastructure, accommodation, training and so on - in such a short period? Even if we do incorporate the British Transport Police and -...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I was not going to come in on this, because I do not want to give Giuliani more publicity, but it makes me vomit when I hear the way people talk about this. Following what Jennette said, I visit New York three or four times a year, as you know. Anywhere in the community that I am in, the word people use for him is "seriously butters", which means totally ugly, and they say that his actions are "hank", which means they stink. There has been a lot of hero worship of Giuliani. On the police, he implemented the programme...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Are you committed, as Chair, to pursuing this issue? Is it a matter that you can't prioritise on TfL's agenda because there is so much else there? What can I say to those people who took part in that survey from North London, and the nurses, and the other healthcare workers, who see this as a real problem and it's a deterrent to them? They're thinking, "Is it safe? Do I have to find another job?" because it speaks to the economy of London. I can pursue this further with you at our forthcoming meeting but I think you should...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What is the criteria for partnership? You talk about the partnerships that you have got with nightclubs; what's wrong with partnerships with, say, health care authorities or schools?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Listening to the issues that Jennette has raised and examples that you have given, there are some great similarities between this and Green travel plans. A lot of it is a matter of information. Can you co-ordinate the work that is being done on this and come back to the Assembly and tell us how that's going?