Stephen Greenhalgh was appointed Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in June 2012. Since then he has set the budget plans for the Metropolitan Police and devised a cost-reduction strategy to realise £500M+ savings by 2016. Stephen is the executive lead for MOPAC and as DMPC, exercises the powers afforded to elected PCCs outside the capital. He was previously Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council from 2006 to the end of May 2012, where he achieved a number of notable successes, including a crack-down on crime with the only New York-style 24hr Council-funded police teams in the UK.