The Metropolitan Police will consider plans to axe all local PCSOs at its Management Board meeting on the 29th September it has been revealed. The cuts could see neighbourhood policing teams reduced to just a single police officer for each ward. This is down from 9 officer SNT’s in Barnet (more than the London SNT norm of 6) which was […]
Read moreThe Metropolitan Police should be given the power to recover all costs from policing football matches. I have discovered new figures which show the force spent almost two million pounds policing top-flight football matches in the capital last year. (See me on LondonLive discussing the cost of football to the met.) Despite facing budget cuts of 20% the […]
Read moreOut of Court disposals (1) Question No: 2015/2266 Andrew Dismore Please list the number of out of court disposals handed out in Barnet in 2014, broken down by disposal type. Written answer from the Mayor Officers are drafting a response which will be sent shortly. Out of Court disposals (2) Question No: 2015/2267 Andrew Dismore Please list the […]
Read more50% rise in number of knife crime victims under 25 in Camden in the last year 23% rise in number of knife crime victims under 25 across London in last year Violent Crime up 27% on last year in the capital £800m of further police cuts in the pipeline Youth knife crime is on the rise in Camden with […]
Read moreIn my new capacity as a member of the Police and Crime Committee I questioned the Mayor, Deputy Mayor for Policing, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and deputy Commissioner, over the ‘flatlining’ of public confidence in the Metropolitan Police, during the City Hall Police and Crime Committee session on the police annual report. I raised a series of issues, […]
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