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  • Stalkers Register

    • Reference: 2014/5141
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    Following the call made by the Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service to introduce a national register for stalkers and the perpetrators of domestic violence, will you call for this to be introduced for the Metropolitan Police?
  • Metropolitan Police Policing Communities

    • Reference: 2014/5140
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    Police in Scotland have been working with Polish counterparts to foster a better cultural understanding of the communities they serve. Would the Metropolitan Police consider adopting such initiatives regarding how they police certain communities within London?
  • Young People Confidence in Metropolitan Police

    • Reference: 2014/4927
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
    According to the recent report from all-party parliamentary group for children, children and young people have a "profound lack of trust" in the police, bordering on fear in some cases. What measures are the Metropolitan Police taking to ensure that their procedures in dealing with young people do not serve to dent their confidence in the police?
  • Gender Equality in the Metropolitan Police

    • Reference: 2014/4928
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
    Following research carried out by the Superintendents' Association of England and Wales which found that six in ten female officers in the senior ranks say their male colleagues are "not well informed" on gender issues with half of women officers not confident to report sexual discrimination, what processes do the Metropolitan Police have in place to ensure that gender equality is up to standard?
  • Holistic solutions that actually work

    • Reference: 2014/3619
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 22 October 2014
    After a year of enforcement in Ilford Road to tackle prostitution - which, as a result, meant sex workers were pushed into working in less safe areas or were criminalised and so forced to remain in prostitution - prostitution is again on the rise in this area, and one sex worker has tragically died. Is it time to admit that this police policy has failed and that a long term holistic response, which assists sex workers to make choices that will allow them to eventually move away from prostitution, is preferable?
  • Child abuse due to witchcraft

    • Reference: 2014/3620
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 22 October 2014
    Alarming news was released this week that suggested that there have been 27 allegations of child abuse for perceived witchcraft so far for this year, and 148 such allegations over the last decade. Can the Mayor let us know what he and MOPAC are doing to ensure that children are protected from such abuse, and does the Mayor believe that London must take the lead on tackling the cultural assumptions that underlie this type of crime?
  • Anti-Semitic incidents

    • Reference: 2014/3513
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
    179 Anti-Semitic incidents have taken place in Greater London in the month of July following the conflict in Gaza, the highest spike in history according to Community Security Trust (CST) records. Will you join me in strongly condemning the recent record-breaking rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the capital?
  • Proactive policing and cost savings

    • Reference: 2014/2656
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 23 July 2014
    My report, Shadow City, proved in its Return on Investment model that proactive work would provide long term savings around trafficking and sexual exploitation and so avoid these huge inquiries. In Shadow City, I spoke to stakeholders who could name specific parks and schools in London where the sexual exploitation of children was taking place. Would the police be willing to proactively investigate these cases?