The Mayor and policing

The negative psychological effect of having more armed officers visible needs to be considered. If someone has psychosis it could trigger paranoia and erratic, serious reactions. For the rest of us just the reminder that there is some perceived need to have them brings a sense of unease and worry. Guns and de-escalation do not go together. They are not conducive to a calm environment.

So long as our criminal justice system is linked to profit making bodies, it is hard to dish out effective justice and corrections for the benefit of public protection and the reduction of offending and reoffending.

No more power over CRim justice for the mayor please, he doesn't seem sends blue enough to use them correctly or in line with what people want; remember he was head of liberty and still keeps trying to do their work in undermining the police. He should let the commissioner manage the police and search interfere less. Mr mayor, stop getting in the way of stop and search and allow police to protect themselves by using spithoods, you're just protecting the criminals and making excuses for them by arguing against these necessary tools. What else will stop knife crime if police aren't allowed to stop people carrying knives,? Your soft sentencing and blame transference tendencies won't do it.

Mayor cant have it all his own way - if you want visible neighbourhood policing it means stripping the already depleted response teams (who answer your 999 calls) this means that Londoners will suffer from lack of Officers to deal with emergency calls - neighbourhood officers typically do not work night shifts. The Mayor has to accept you have to pay for better Policing amd that ultimately means a radical uplift in Police Officer numbers.

Well this would be amusing if it wasn't reality: yesterday we held a mass motorbike protest against the exponential increase of motorbike thefts in the city which has now escalated to hijackings, and the police were constantly stopping us to ask what we protesting and we explained, and the response we got: "Oh, we know but we don't want to get involved because we have families and don't want to put ourselves in danger" Seriously??? This from the police! Arent they supposed to be protecting us? I think the Mayor needs to focus on hiring police that have some balls. One biker has already been killed during a hijacking, didn't even make the front page, so how many have to die before the Police do something. But I bet if we took the law into our own hands to protect ourselves, the police would be all over us!!!! This is like being back in Johannesburg. This great city is really going to the dogs :-(

I think this mayor is not fit for purpose ,if he could do away with police altogether,he would ,then he could blame the victims for the crime ,ask any serving officer whst they think of sadiq khans GeForce ,but stand well back for the reply ,crime is much higher in london than the figures suggest ,nobody reports crimes ,whats the point nothing happens ,i dont think police should be the mayors responsibility it should be the govts job to protect its citizens

Well I think we can all agree after last night's Mayor's question time, that Mr Khan is more about photo opportunities and pandering than he is about real change. I have gone from really liking him to thinking he is just another ineffectual glory hunter. When asked about the exponential increase in motorbike thefts in London, he dismissed it as being the fault of bikers who don't secure their bikes; isn't that like blaming women who get raped for wearing short dresses??? I had 3 motorbikes stolen in 5 years, all of them had security on them. My last one had an immobiliser, alarm, alarmed front disk lock, datatagging and was parked under a CCTV camera. Apart from nailing them down, there is nothing we can do. Even trackers are working against us because we have found out that is how thieves have been able to find our bikes and work out the best time to steal them because they have been hiding trackers on our bikes. There are very seldom properly secure places where we can anchor our bikes down. They have spent hundreds of millions for cyclists but wont spare any money to putting ground anchors around London because as far as he is concerned, we can just claim it back on our insurance. Erm, insurance premiums and excesses don't come for free!

We really need a much stronger personality as Mayor; someone not afraid to crack the whip and bash some heads together.

Sadly, London has become more dangerous (although its still a relatively safe city) in the last 10 years. My first 11 years I experience no crime and in the last 10, I have had to call the police 7 times! Twice was to report crimes I was witnessing, 4 were happening to me. And if police want to catch thieves, go onto Facebook, they are openly selling stolen goods on there with no fear of punishment whatsoever.

I was assaulted and called 999; still waiting 4.5 hours later for the police, when I was told they would arrive within 1 hour because my assault had been given 'early response priority'. Ironic to receive the Mayor's email invitation to "help me tackle crime in London" while stuck shattered, waiting up at 23:30pm for the police who are a no-show... Of course no-one has bothered to call me back to apologise or explain the delay, or say I can go to bed either, and I don't know who to call to ask (I don't think I can dial 999 again). So I was given a reference number for my case, but no telephone number or named person to give that reference to. Very confused, tired and upset.

I agree with the major's priorities against crime but I am sourprised that fight against drugs trade was not mentioned there. In my opinion illegal drugs trade and crime are closely related and London is a place where this issue is growing up.

I have been told off for calling the mayor an idiot ,i apologise for that but it doesnt change how i feel about his efforts with our police in london ,massively undermanned ,massively let down by the cps and judiciary ,criminals should be punished properly properly ,what happens now is a travesty and an insult to victims ,we need zero tolerance of crimes and criminals will know they had better not re offend ,lily livered pc punishment not good enough ,victims first

It is clear from the comments below that I am not alone in being concerned about the new Mayor's attitude to the prevention of crime and his apparent 'anti police' demeanour. The issues of spit hoods and overt carrying of firearms in order to tackle terrorism are good examples where he has shown his detachment from reality in my humble view. He is one of a number of key individuals who have responsibility for the residents of London and will be accountable following any terrorist attack in the future which we hope will not occur but in reality is highly possible. His role is not to pander to single agenda groups who shout loudest but to step up to the challenge of playing his part in keeping London safe.

This mayor is the greatest enemy of policing london,not only have numbers been cut drastically he now wants them investigated every time they make an arrest ,their morale is at an all time low thanks to sadiq khan