Despite Mr Khan’s boasts, the original decision to buy the land was made by former mayor Boris Johnson who signed a ‘Mayoral Decision’ authorising the £12m purchase on March 17th 2016.
Sadiq Khan’s Met merger has left force “under resourced” and “unable to provide proactive and visible policing” says leader of Barking Council
Scotland Yard and Mayor Khan’s office have embarked on a controversial pilot scheme merging the three boroughs into a single command unit, with a second trial being conducted in Camden and Islington.
Met’s maritime unit becomes latest team equipped with body worn cameras
The force’s adoption of the devices is one of the biggest in the world and helps provide evidence to support convictions, while boosting transparency and accountability and protecting officers against malicious and unfounded complaints by providing video evidence of their actions and encounters with the public.
AMs call on Sadiq Khan to protect London’s local media to avoid a “democratic deficit”
Local papers play a key role in ensuring councils and other public bodies are properly scrutinised, but a London Assembly report published today finds that “the majority of local newspapers” have suffered a fall in sales in recent years.
London buses to trial automatic brakes and audible warnings in bid to boost road safety
Transport for London has appointed the Transport Research Laboratory to carry out “a completely independent trial” of the technologies which it hopes will help efforts to cut the number of people killed and seriously injured on London’s streets.
