• Reference: 2011/2915
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

How many TfL-controlled pedestrian crossings in Enfield do not meet the Department for Transport specification of the minimum time for pedestrians to cross the road? Please detail which ones fail to meet these specifications. What percentage of crossings in the borough these account for? Can you also provide a timetable for bringing these crossings up to specification?

• Reference: 2011/2914
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

How many TfL-controlled pedestrian crossings in Haringey do not meet the Department for Transport specification of the minimum time for pedestrians to cross the road? Please detail which ones fail to meet these specifications. What percentage of crossings in the borough these account for? Can you also provide a timetable for bringing these crossings up to specification?

• Reference: 2011/2913
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Officers for the Safer Transport Teams are provided by Borough Command Units. However, as some boroughs have had some recent problems recruiting a sufficient amount of Police Officers since the recruitment freeze, will you guarantee that the funding will not be lost for Safer Transport Team posts and be ring-fenced until vacancies have been filled?

• Reference: 2011/2912
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

The HMIC's model of defining the 'front line' as 'the police front line comprises those who are in everyday contact with the public and who directly intervene to keep people safe and enforce the law' and they state that it has the benefit of being formulated with the involvement of ACPO, APA, APACE as well as the MPS. The MPS use the Operational Policing Model (OPM). Which system do you believe is the most appropriate? Do you believe the Met should adopt the similar HMIC model for a more consistent and widely endorsed approach to enable unambiguous and clear discussions...

• Reference: 2011/2911
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Page 27 of your Policing Plan outlines the proposed number of Police Officers to March 2014 is 31,460. The HMIC repeated this figure in their recent report 'Valuing the Police: Preparedness Inspection'. However, when the HMIC repeated figure has been quoted to you and your Deputy Mayor for Policing, you have both denied it, and your Deputy even called it 'cobblers'. Is the figure in the MPA/MPS Policing Plan 2011-14 incorrect? If so, please can you provide the correct figure for the proposed number of Police Officers for 2013/14?

• Reference: 2011/2910
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

What are you doing to mark the 18th October 2011?

• Reference: 2011/2909
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Are you confident the MPS will be able to meet its obligations under the Victim's Charter if the MPS's victim focus units are closed down due to government cuts? What alternative arrangements will be put in place and will you ensure that Victim Support and other partnership organisations have a say in any alternative arrangements?

• Reference: 2011/2908
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Are any TfL roads in Enfield & Haringey being sprayed with dust suppressants in order to stick particulate matter to the road? If so, how often and where exactly is the spraying carried out?

• Reference: 2011/2907
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

In response to Mayor's Question 2808/2011 you stated that £8M funding to Tottenham is intended to 'unlock' Tottenham Hotspur's 'commitment to Tottenham...in supplementary projects and schemes, not dissimilar to the kinds of investment I envisage in other areas of London.' Can you please give more detail as to what these 'supplementary projects and schemes' are?

• Reference: 2011/2906
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Does the MPS Commissioner's call for a more targeted use of stop and search rather than 'blanket' operations call into question the current approach and effectiveness of Blunt 2? What changes will be made to Blunt 2 operations?