Under new proposals, courts could able to impose special orders prohibiting known troublemakers from going into pubs, with life bans for the worst offenders. He also said retaining high-quality police officers was proving difficult. At the moment we are not getting the numbers and quality of people coming through the recruitment system. We are losing more than we are recruiting in London, it's a major problem. It is about pay, the attitude towards the police service and we need to work pretty hard to improve that.
Money is such a dirty word.
I'm not hearing about investment in policing. We need some investment across the board. The new government proposals were contained in a white paper first published in April this year. Chief constables from the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire forces are expected to join the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at Monday's event. The summit comes after Mr Blair was criticised for making law and order announcements without proper consultation.