Neighbourhood policemen will each have tablets or smartphones enabling them to patrol with purpose where and when crime is likely to happen.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime pledges to cut fares and regenerate the capital’s most deprived areas.
They visited Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham College to increase black and ethnic minority applicants to the Met.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Stephen Greenhalgh, is the one to watch.
London shows the way
Crime in the capital is falling like a stone
Admirers of Hands say he has the toughness needed to speak truth to power. His detractors say he is far too close to the Chancellor.
The noisiest opponents are the ageing anarchists and scruffy students from the Left-wing protest brigade
Tim Montgomerie writes: Tory leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council, Stephen Greenhalgh has written for today’s Sunday Telegraph about best practice in local government. It is a distillation of a longer analysis he has written for the Centre for Policy Studies; The New Good Council Guide. Here are Cllr Greenhalgh’s key conclusions: "Average council taxes […]
Related links: > Eric Pickles’ previous video. > Stephen Greenhalgh: Help me write a bold Conservative blueprint for local government
A guest article by Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh, Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council and also of the Conservative Party’s Council Innovation Unit. Later today the Conservative Council Innovation Unit is holding its first event at the LGA Conference in Bournemouth. The roundtable, hosted by Localis aims to answer three simple questions: What three things define […]
Stephen Greenhalgh is Conservative leader of Hammersmith and Fulham and a key member of the team that Boris Johnson has appointed to audit City Hall. He won ConservativeHome.com’s 2007/08 ‘Local Hero Award’. In this article Stephen introduces the aims of the new Conservative Council Innovation Unit and its aim to write ‘the bible’ of best […]
The news this morning is of a "tough" expenditure settlement for local authorities. Council chiefs are telling the BBC that they will either have to cut services or increase council tax. One council that is choosing a different road is Tory-controlled Hammersmith and Fulham, led by Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh. H&F cut council tax bills by […]