An additional 1,800 Metropolitan Police officers are to be issued with Tasers, taking the total number of officers carrying the weapon to 6,400.
City Hall Greens claim Sadiq Khan’s air quality policies are too focussed on central London
Since coming to office last May, Mr Khan has announced a raft of measures aimed at reducing airborne pollution, including measures to clean-up London’s bus fleet, mandating the adoption of ‘zero emission’ Taxis and confirming plans to introduce the Ultra Low Emission Zone proposed by his predecessor.
Transport for London analysis identifies 25 potential cycling ‘corridors’
Twenty five routes, spreading Brentford to Heathrow in the west, to Dagenham Dock to Ilford in the east, Highgate to North Finchley in the north, and Streatham to Oval in the south, have been published today and Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner.
Greg Hands named as Theresa May’s new minister for London
The minister for London role had been dormant in recent years but was revived by Theresa May when she became Prime Minister last summer in a decision which was privately opposed by some Conservatives on the London Assembly who felt it undermined their position as scrutineers of Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Mayor Sadiq Khan urged to investigate shortfall in BTP’s London transport cop numbers
The British Transport Police is providing up to 10% fewer officers than Transport for London is paying it for, according to figures released under Freedom of Information laws.
