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Good evening, welcome to the programme. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Neighbourhood policing is set to return to London. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
The Mayor's promised a three-person team for every | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
But that's smaller than the teams more than a decade ago. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
And, as our political correspondent Karl Mercer reports, | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
Sadiq Khan's plan also comes with a warning. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
He has said that keeping Londoners safe is his key priority. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Today, the Mayor laid out the policing plan | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
We have got to help the police do their job and that is why | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
we are announcing a police and crime plan today. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Speaking at a South London school this morning he promised a return | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
But it's a plan that comes with a warning | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
I have kept the strategic target of the 2000 officers | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
but the realities of the police, if the government makes any further | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
cuts to the police service as a consequence of the funding | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
formula being changed, keeping police numbers | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
where they are is going to be a real, real stretch. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
We have of course heard the neighbourhood policing mantra | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
before, under a different Prime Minister, a different Mayor, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
The prize is a fantastic one and an inspiring one, | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
which is that the law-abiding majority in the community take back | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
control of that community and so people feel whatever | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
background they come from, whatever place they have, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
that they both show respect to other people and get | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
respect back and that is, in the end, | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Fast forward a year, a new commissioner, | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
And this concept of safer neighbourhoods that we've got | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
here is very much the pattern of policing in London | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
The broad pattern of change and the rise in confidence in local | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Back then, this was how London's neighbourhood police teams looked, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
each with a dedicated Sergeant, two PCs and three PCSOs. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
That number was later cut and today's promise from the Mayor | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Each ward promised two PCs and one PCSO. | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
A reflection of tougher times, perhaps. | :02:09. | :02:25. | |
Do you think you can continue to police London effectively given | :02:26. | :02:26. | |
What sum of money we get given is a matter for politicians, | :02:27. | :02:27. | |
What we do is we point out the challenges of | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
policing a great city like this | :02:29. | :02:29. | |
A there will be plenty of those challenges ahead | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
While the Prime Minister was announcing the date | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
when the formal process of leaving the EU would be triggered, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
a group of delegates from Paris were here in the capital. | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
To lure companies in the Financial Technology sector - | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
known as Fintech - back to the European Union. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Let's cross to Marc Ashdown who's got more on this. | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
This could best be described as a charm offensive by the Paris | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
business sector, this is the second time in six weeks the top delegates | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
have visited London to try to whirl Fintech firms. It is the fastest | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
growing sector in the UK economy, contributing ?2.2 billion in 2015 | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
and those figures haven't escaped key business minds across the | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Channel. They will try to point out the potentially difficult trading | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
conditions post-Brexit, no access to the single market, so suddenly Paris | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
starts to look quite attractive. It is not that simple, London has a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
fine tradition of nurturing, cultivating Fintech talent, that | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
won't suddenly be forgotten, and it depends on the Brexit negotiations, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
the idea of our sporting for example has been spoken about. Could these | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
firms keep UK roots here in London? And of course there are big European | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
cities did fancy a slice of this juicy pie, Madrid, Luxembourg and | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Frankfurt. Expect more of these schmooze a visit in the months ahead | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
and they will no doubt ruffle some feathers in what has become a | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
successful and thriving sector. Figures obtained by BBC London | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
reveal there were more than 450 That's almost double | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
the number the year before. And what's more, the majority | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
of victims are male. Charlotte Franks has | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
been investigating. I thought I was going to go | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
blind first of all. It was just burning, | :04:35. | :05:05. | |
that was all I could feel. Last year, he was a victim | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
of an acid attack by a gang The shopkeeper threw | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
water on my face straight This type of crime was once | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
considered by police as a relatively rare but over the last six years | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
there has been an upward trend. Figures obtained by BBC | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
London have revealed acid attacks are now | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
at their highest levels since 2011 | :05:27. | :05:27. | |
with 452 victims in London last year alone, almost 100% more | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
than the year before and almost Here in Newham there | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
were more attacks that More than 150 people were targeted | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
last year. Some blame it on the fact | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
that acid is cheap and I was able to buy a bottle | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
with no questions asked. It is because of this that acidic | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
substances are being used by some It is more humiliating than a knife | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
wound, you could get stabbed and that knife wound | :05:54. | :06:05. | |
can be concealed under in a place that's not visible | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
whereas an acid attack is Furthermore, there | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
are huge concerns that secondary schoolchildren | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
are getting their hands on it. We are urging parents to make sure | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
that they do know what Figures show that acid is well used | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
during assaults and rapes. The commonly held belief | :06:27. | :06:42. | |
is that the majority of the victims are women but surprisingly in London | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
they are mostly men. Something like that, | :06:45. | :06:56. | |
I think it is worse than a Emergency services say that over | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
nine hundred vehicles will breach the ultra low emission zone | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
when it's introduced in 2019 and it could cost them thousands | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
of pounds in charges. Some politicians are | :07:12. | :07:25. | |
calling for all emergency Here's our Transport | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Correspondent Tom Edwards. In two years' time, more polluting | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
vehicles will have to pay ?12.50 But that could also include over 900 | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
emergency vehicles and now there are calls for them | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
to be exempt. You are talking about free | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
services that literally The Mayor should not be charging | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
them to carry out that process. We feel that all three of those | :07:45. | :08:02. | |
services should be exempt. We're not saying they shouldn't | :08:03. | :08:03. | |
be brought into line with the better emission standards, | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
but it should be over All of them have plans | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
to renew their vehicle fleet and they should be allowed to do | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
that without the extra burden According to a freedom | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
of information request by the Assembly Tories, | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
the emergency services are concerned about how much the ultralow | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
emission zone will cost. It's claimed the Met will have | :08:24. | :08:23. | |
to replace 82% of its fleet. The London Fire Service will have 52 | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
noncompliant vehicles and the London Ambulance Service, | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
86 vehicles would have to pay. There are children in parts | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
of London whose lungs The Tories have done | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
nothing for the last eight years and they should | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
rightfully be ashamed. I consulted widely on my | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
new ultralow emissions zone and you know what, | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
the police, the Fire Service, and ambulance service, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
they don't object. They welcomed me addressing | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
the issue around air quality and what they are going to do | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
is make sure that their ULES compliant vehicles are | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
used in the ULES area. Tackling pollution is | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
a priority for the Mayor. How it should be done and who should | :09:06. | :09:05. | |
pay, not everyone agrees. And as bird's eye views | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
of the capital go, this one is pretty hard to beat | :09:07. | :09:07. | |
because it was taken An astronaut took it | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
from the International Space Station and it's been a big hit | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
on social media. That's it from me so I'll wish | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
you a very goodnight and I'll leave you with Wendy for a check | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
on the weather. The weather for the week ahead will | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
be turning colder I'm afraid, that process starting at the moment. It | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
will also be breezy and there will be rain at times too. This is the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
cloud that brought the rain today, quite a defined edge on the back of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
it, marking the difference between the warm and cold air. Today we got | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
to 14 degrees, but the colder air oddly enough is coming in from the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
south-west but the origins of this air are from the Canadian Arctic so | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
it is cold. It gave beautiful skies this evening and they continue to | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
clear as we go through the night. It will be breezy so it will take a | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
sheltered spot to get a touch of frost but it's not out of the | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
question because temperatures will be almost if not at freezing and I | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
think you will feel that first thing tomorrow morning. There is some | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
strength in the sunshine, we could catch a shower in the afternoon and | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
it will be feeling cooler today especially in the breeze. Midweek | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
onwards not looking very nice with heavy rain on and off through | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Wednesday. It is still lingering around on Thursday and Friday as | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
well and this breeze will be making it feel a good deal chillier than | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
those double figures suggest. Good news for the high pressure system | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
building in for the weekend, things are looking much better so the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
outlook for Saturday and Sunday is for something | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
outlook for Saturday and Sunday is for something dry and settled, sunny | :11:04. | :11:04. | |
spells but a bit on the cool side. This week we are starting off with a | :11:05. | :11:18. | |
taste of winter. This is Paul and maritime air, it has come from a | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
long way north and will push in lots of showers. The last of any mild air | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
gets swept away with the cloud. Tonight we have showers mostly | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
across the northern half of the UK, which will turn wintry and that | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
means more snow, particularly across Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
perhaps northern England. With those temperatures it is not just snow | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
that is a concern, it is icy roads. Quite a few wintry showers still | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
packing in across the north and west of Northern Ireland, west of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Scotland by this stage. Eastern Scotland much more sheltered so it | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
should be drier and we may have early sunshine here as well. For | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
England and Wales, | :12:06. | :12:06. |