Vans will have five video cameras which will record inside and outside the van, plus three microphones and two monitors to monitor detainees while they’re being transported to a custody suite.
TfL ordered to “look again” at tweaking New Routemaster’s design to battle high temperatures
Critics say that unless the New Routemaster bus is redesigned to include opening windows the vehicles “will have no place on London’s streets”.
Government urged to change law over football policing costs
Currently forces, including London’s Metropolitan Police Service, can only bill clubs for policing inside stadiums and on their grounds and are unable to recoup the costs of escorting fans to local transport links and ensuring crowds disperse.
Tories announce four-strong shortlist in Mayoral selection
London Assembly member Andrew Boff, Richmond MP Zac Goldsmith, Stephen Greenhalgh, London’s deputy mayor for policing, and MEP Syed Kamal are to compete to become the Conservative’s 2016 Mayoral candidate.
Crossrail cleared Parliament a year before Sadiq Khan was transport minister so how did he ‘push it through’?
When the bill was going through Parliament, and when the work got underway at Canary Wharf, Sadiq Khan wasn’t based in the DfT.