00:00More than anything, my constituents are going to be concerned about the lack of funding for policing.
00:05We urgently need more police on our streets. We want to see more neighbourhood policing in Richmond and in Kingston.
00:11And we know that the Metropolitan Police as a whole is facing a huge funding shortfall.
00:15And we didn't see enough today to really make up that difference.
00:18And that's going to have a massive impact on policing in London.
00:21And it's something that my constituents see every single day, that we don't have enough police in our local neighbourhoods.
00:28And part of the reason for that is because the Met, as a single police force, often has to abstract offices from places like Richmond and Kingston
00:35and bring them into central London and do some of that policing that they're only required to do because this is the capital city.
00:41And we really do need to see the Met's special status in that regard, properly recognised in its funding settlement.
00:48The commissioner, the mayor, all of the elected politicians have been calling for that for months and months.
00:54And we're really disappointed today.
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