Metropolitan Police Authority - February meeting

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25 February 2004

A meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority will be held in Meeting Room 1 (ground floor), 10 Dean Farrar Street, London SW1 on Thursday, 26 February 2004 at 10.00 a.m.

Members will set the policing priorities for London for next year and finalise the Policing and Performance Plan 2004/5, setting the targets and objectives for the Metropolitan Police.

Toby Harris, Chair of the MPA, said:

“The MPA is keen to see the Met continue to improve and perform in a number of areas including anti terrorism and serious crime, as well as volume crime and local ‘low level’ anti social crime. Our aim is to make London the safest city for all our communities.

“Tackling gun crime is also a major priority and the MPA’s Gun Crime Scrutiny makes recommendations aimed at producing even more effective results. We also intend to continue to disrupt Class A drugs suppliers and dismantle organised criminal networks, seizing their assets.

“High on our list of objectives is improving neighbourhood safety and all that entails - tackling robbery, crimes perpetrated against people because of their race, gender, age or disability and safeguarding children and young people.

“In January 2004 we reached a milestone in our aim to be the safest city when police officer numbers reached 30,000, the highest ever in the history of the Met. One of our biggest challenges will be to ensure that with more officers on our streets they will fulfil the expectations of Londoners and achieve results - cutting crime and combating anti-social behaviour."

Other subjects to be discussed include the Gun Crime Scrutiny and the final draft of the MPA’s self assessment document which forms part of the Audit Commission’s Initial Performance Assessment.

The Commissioner Sir John Stevens will give an update on operational policing issues in London and Toby Harris, Chair of the MPA, Catherine Crawford, Clerk to the MPA and Members will give updates on Authority matters.

Members will also hear a question from Ms. Pauline Bowers about the MPA’s policy concerning racial tension in communities and between different sections of the community and police, with particular reference to the work of Community Police Consultative Groups. The Clerk to the Authority, Catherine Crawford will give the Authority's responses at the meeting. 

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