Andrew Dismore

 

Andrew Dismore, Labour Parliamentary candidate for Hendon and London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden challenged the Mayor over Barnet police’s poor emergency attendance times at Mayor’s Question Time on 19^th March ( link below) Mr Dismore had previously revealed that Barnet has the second worse attendance times in London. (See below)

Whilst the Mayor said he would look into the problem, he failed to agree to enquire into Mr Dismore’s claims, that calls that had gone past the target time went to the back of the queue, and that he had heard form a police source that some officers were booking in attendance at the scene before they had  arrived, so as to appear to meet the target times when they were going to fail to do so.

 

Mr Dismore said:

“It is clear that the target driven culture the Mayor is demanding of the Met is having a bad effect. Whilst I welcome the fact that he says he will look into the poor attendance  times at Barnet it is disgraceful that he is not going to find out about the way the statistics are being manipulated to make it look  like  his requirements are being met. We already have one scandal of dodgy police statistics over crime figures being reviewed.  Here are yet more and he is so complacent that he could not care less.

This is all a product of his 20 % cut in London’s police service. The Mayor says he wants to improve public confidence but problems like this can only undermine it. It is astounding that the Mayor could not  care less- presumably because the truth might make the figures look even worse.

It is also a disgrace that Hendon’s Conservative MP has nothing to say about these matters. After all he promised  at the last election there would be more police if he was elected yet he has delivered the exact opposite  with cuts in the Met  that have reduced the numbers of officers available in Hendon.”

 

http://www.london.gov.uk/webcasts/36277/asx

Police question – 1 hour 35 mins in.

 

The police are expected to attend 90% of emergency calls (“I” calls) within 15minutes; and 90% of urgent calls (“S” calls ) within  1 hour.  Actual performance for the last three months for which figures are available are:

Month	I call	S call
Nov 13	87.7%	86.2%
Dec 13	89.3%	85.5%
Jan 14	89.5%	88.3%