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last the full version of that interview with Paul Flowers, | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening from BBC London News. New figures reveal an east`west | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
divide in how satisfied Londoners are with the Metropolitan Police. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
The annual crime survey shows a small boost in the public's trust in | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
the force. But says people's faith in The Met varies greatly from | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
borough to borough. Our Polhtical Editor, Tim Donovan has the details. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
It can take an age to build up, just a moment to shatter. The latest | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
crime survey figures show confidence in The Met is improving if only by | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
less than 1% in a year. At least it's not getting worse. 24 out of 32 | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
boroughs, three quarters of them have seen an improvement in public | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
confidence versus a year ago. That is a good starting point, btt not | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
enough to hit our target. The talk today was of an east`west dhvide, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
the deputy mayor said poverty didn't appear to be a major factor, but one | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
academic said it was. There is a very strong sensation deprivation | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
and contrast in confidence hn the police. So what are the varhations? | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Confidence is good where it is red and less where it is grey. What are | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
the extremes? In Richmond, 84% of people say the police do a good or | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
excellent job. While in Lewhsham, it's 48%, dropping 13% in a year. In | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
the last few months there h`s been unfortunate publicity about | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Lewisham, named the least pdaceful borough in a survey and the place | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
where a child was most likely to be Tasered. Was this a fair impression? | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
If I needed to call the polhce, I wouldn't. I'd call someone dlse to | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
deal with the problem. I don't trust them. Some can't thank the police in | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
love and some have nothing good to say about them. So bit of a ying and | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
yang. We don't see any police walking round in Lewisham. So that's | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
probably why there is a lot of petty crime. In fact, most crime hn | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Lewisham is down and the officer in charge offered this today. H know | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
this isn't about satisfaction but where people have actually `ccessed | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
a service we are at 78%, so that's a better picture. It's just the | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
confidence that's really dr`gging the overall performance scorecard | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
down. City Hall says The Met is not yet on track to get a 75% ptblic | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
approval rating by 2020. But the police know building trust hs one of | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
the key things they need to do. Well it comes on the day thd head of | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the force, Sir Bernard Hogan Howe, was questioned by MPs over the | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
shredding of thousands of documents a decade ago. Nick Beake is outside | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
Scotland Yard, what did he say? They were very frosty, those exchanges. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
But in the middle of them, Sir Bernard Hogan`Howe said he had and | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
all members of his organisation from shredding documents. It follows the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
revelation that a lorry load of evidence in an anti`corrupthon probe | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
was destroyed more than a ddcade ago. Today, he said he was still | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
trying to establish whether that have been done for malicious or | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
innocent purposes. He said the shredding was hard to justify but he | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
said it was possible it was done because the information had been | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
safely transferred to computers The Commissioner was specifically | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
questioned over alleged corruption in the Stephen Lawrence casd? Yes, a | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
barrister had been asked to look again at the Stephen Lawrence | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
investigation. He said therd were reasonable grounds to suspect a | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
former police officer, Sergdant John Davidson of corruption. Thex say it | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
should be done by an extern`l organisation. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
And in a special programme later this week, The Met Commissioner | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
talks directly to an audience of Londoners about recent scandals in | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the Force. That's 'Do You Trust the Police?' with Jeremy Vine, on Friday | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
at 7:30pm. The family of a young soldidr who | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
died at Deepcut barracks in Surrey, nearly 20 years ago, has bedn told | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
they can apply to the High Court for a new inquest. Private Cherxl James | :04:25. | :04:37. | |
died from gunshot wounds. She was one of four soldiers there to die | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
over seven years, sparking allegations of bullying and abuse as | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Alex Bushill reports. Private Cheryl James was 18 when she | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
died from a single gunshot wound to her head. Her body was found on the | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
outskirts of the barracks in the Surrey countryside. She is | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
remembered as a bubbly teen`ger and the army said her death was | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
suicide. Her family have never accepted that, accusing the MoD over | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
cover`up. And now some promhsing news, a second inquest into her | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
death. We were always confident this day would come. The more we learned | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
about Cheryl's case and her death, the more we knew it had not been | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
investigated. His daughter was one of four young recruits who died of | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
gunshot wounds within four xears at deep cut. Cheryl James was found | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
dead, an open verdict was rdcorded. In 2001, Private Geoff Gray from | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Hackney was found dead with two gunshot wounds. And a year later | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Private James Collins and's body was discovered and both returned open | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
verdicts. Surrey Police carried out an investigation into thous`nd and | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
two but there have never bedn any prosecutions. A series of | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
investigations found bullying and abuse but calls for a full public | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
enquiry have been refused. The authorities have persistently shut | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the families down and tried to close ranks. I think that aware the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
families have looked to othdr institutions to help them, such as | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
the police, they have failed them. The army has said it has le`rned | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
lessons from what happened `t deep cut and the MoD said they would | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
provide support for any second inquest. Private James' famhly now | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
await a six`week wait to sed if the High Court will grant them ` second | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
inquest. That's all from me, so I'll wish you | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
goodnight and leave you with the weather. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
We have clear skies but the sunshine will be replaced by showers in the | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
afternoon. We could see a couple creeping across Kent, Essex and | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Hertfordshire in the next fdw hours but mostly it will be a dry night. A | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
breeze blowing and it will be chilly. Sheltered from the spots may | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
maybe below freezing. There could be a touch of ice first thing tomorrow | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
morning. It will not be a whdespread trouble. For most it will bd a dry | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
start, a little bit of brightness around but the showers get going in | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
the afternoon. They look like they will be heavy and thundery `nd they | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
might be wintry. Feeling chhlly at 10 degrees. The outlook, | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
might be wintry. Feeling chilly at 10 degrees. The outlook, it stays | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
chilly and temperatures look like they will pick up towards the eight | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
-- weekend. In early spring, a bit of sunshine | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
makes the difference. Today we had some sunshine in the far east of the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
UK and in the far west. In Northern Ireland and East Anglia, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
temperatures climbed into the teens. But for most of us, it was gloomy | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
and temperatures were at sixes and sevens. Single figure temperatures | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
will feature heavily over the next few days. We are already seeing the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
weather coming in from the east pushing the weather to the West so | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
we will see showers continuing in the night. Isolated showers. Most | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
towns and cities just about avoiding a frost but in rural areas we will | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
seek pockets of frost and fog patches for the morning. Some | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
showers across the West but it will brighten up in the West, however in | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the East the cloud thickens, the winds pick up and out rakes | :08:34. | :08:34. |