Boris and the police

I was at the Empress State Building in Earls Court this morning at the speech Boris gave to the Met's borough commanders. It was a fairly short speech with a long question and answer session afterwards.

I was very impressed with the police's willingness, desire even, to embrace change. Normally big organisations are very unwilling even to consider there may be a better way of doing things. I half expected Boris to put ideas forward and for them to be met with shakes of the head and furrowed brows. None of it at all.

The police officers in the room were putting forward very interesting ideas in support of community engagement, youth crime prevention, staffing flexibility etc. No sticks in the mud there.

Also congratulations to Sir Paul Stephenson on his recent knighthood.