• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Thank you, Toby. I wonder if you could take us a little bit further on this stop and search question. This clearly is historically an extremely important issue for all Londoners but particularly for African Caribbean communities and also, indeed, Bangladeshi communities in the East End. Now, this exercise, as you say, has shown some promise. Where is the MPS going with it from here?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

On the subject of PCCGs, do you understand the concerns of my Police Community Consultation Group at Havering who are worried that the MPA is requesting personal information from them which they would not want to have on record? And do you understand our concern that, when a member of the MPA officers was actually invited to attend the group and meet us last week, they failed to do so? Can you undertake that someone from the MPA will actually go and talk to them, apart from myself as their link member, someone who's actually responsible for the use of...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Will you publish, with as much notice as possible, the dates of the meetings in each of these boroughs, at least to the GLA and MPA members?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Can I say I strongly support the concept of borough policing but it does not help when borough commanders seem to be shipped out on a regular basis. In Barnet we are now on our third borough commander in about 15 months. The last one disappeared almost overnight three weeks ago and he had done a lot of hard work building relationships with residents' organisations, with the Police Consultative Committee and others. Suddenly he is duly promoted to higher service, which is great for him but rather undermines some of the confidence which the public have placed in the high...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

I have actually two questions. One that there's a perception of crime in certain areas where you may not reach automatically so, for instance, in one of the reviews we are looking at which is the fear of going to open spaces or green spaces. What negotiations are you having with, say, parks police about proliferation of parks police so that people feel comfortable in certain areas where you do not necessarily reach?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Going back to the issue of road safety, there are much wider ramifications. For example, in Havering, where they do have a quite effective road safety team, they have actually, in the course of those duties, for example, found someone with an unlicensed gun in the car; they stopped one man for not wearing a seat belt and subsequently made nine arrests on the basis of that one stop because he was wanted for crimes, his girlfriend was wanted for crimes and so on. Is it possible to have a list of what each of the boroughs is doing on...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Can I just ask how far we are down the line of being fully strategic rather than just meeting partners, where you are not just working on concentrating efforts where there are suitable partners? How far are we down the line to actually ensure that we are focussing where there is an apparent need?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

When do you think we'll be in a position to see with some confidence a longer-term budget strategy for the MPS?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

I think last year, was it last year, when Sir John Stevens came before the Budget Committee, by his own admission he indicated that he had inherited, I think he used the word a "mess". When do you expect those inherited issues to have been tidied up so that you can concentrate on the real financial issues that you have just outlined earlier on.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Are you satisfied that there is a genuine understanding amongst senior officers in the Metropolitan Police of the importance of budgetary accountability? Are you satisfied that there is a real determination to change a culture which many of us perceive to have been a sort of financial crisis management year upon year, and when do you think we are likely to start seeing some positive results that will enable you to be more confident, to use your own phrase?