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• Reference: 2011/0257-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

What will policing in London look like in 2 years time?

• Reference: 2010/0170-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

How do you envisage the future of Borough policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Reference: 2010/0206-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Dee Doocey (Chair): We now come to the session on policing. Can I formally welcome Kit Malthouse, in his capacity as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. I know that both Kit and Sir Paul wish to make an opening statement. Just to explain how things are going to work, the questions we have got in today are quite unusual in that they are all quite similar, so it has been agreed that each question will be put in turn and the questioner will have the opportunity to ask two...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to pick up a couple of the issues from earlier. I am, Sir Paul, really reassured in your commitment to Safer Neighbourhood Teams and, particularly, that you are nervous about moving away from the ward-based model; I certainly am as well. It is very reassuring compared to what I have heard the Assistant Commissioner in Territorial Policing say. I found that he clearly has ideas to change TP completely. You said to Richard [Tracey] that that might be Surrey, this is London. It seems to me Ian McPherson's ideas come from Norfolk, and that is not London...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I take the point, wholly, that the train operating companies should be paying for their policing. Historically they do not. I do not think the public is going to be much impressed by this turf war.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I wholly agree that this is best served to get sorted out pragmatically and at borough level, but can I suggest that it might be helpful, if it is not already happening, for the MPA to take the lead in discussion with what used to be the ALG, London Councils, as I think it is now, to try and start some thinking about how to rationalise what is becoming an increasingly complex consultative structure with often the same people going to lots of meetings saying exactly the same thing.

• Reference: 2005/0142-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What impact is pressure to meet detection rates targets having on policing priorities?

• Reference: 2005/0144-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Do you think Londoners of the Muslim faith should expect to be stopped and searched more often than other Londoners?

• Reference: 2005/0147-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Do you believe that more use of advanced technology could be made to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time?

• Reference: 2005/0148-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What role is there for the Met in preventing crime in the first place?