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• Reference: 2014/5155
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

In her keynote speech at the Cyber Security Summit in Westminster on 20th November, Detective Superintendent Jayne Snelgrove said that the police are concerned that private industry could "poach" highly skilled officers trained in cyber-crime away from the Met. What measures can the Metropolitan Police take to stop that happening?

• Reference: 2014/4943
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

What were the results of the Metropolitan Police's 20-week trial of the new technology developed in partnership with Accenture, designed to identify which specific gang members are most likely to commit a crime?

• Reference: 2014/4944
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Following the Metropolitan Police's 20 week pilot of the new anti-gang crime predictor, will the Metropolitan Police be incorporating this new technology into their anti-gang strategy? If the answer is yes, can we be informed when this technology will be fully operational?

• Reference: 2014/4945
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

What procedures will the Metropolitan Police put in place to ensure that the new anti-gang crime predictor technology is transparent and does not in any way breach the civil liberties of London's population?

• Reference: 2014/4946
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Following the recent FOI figures revealing that more than five people a week are being bitten by police dogs in London on average coupled with the fact that the Metropolitan Police have paid out £243,363 in compensation to victims of dog bites over the last three years, what measures are the Metropolitan Police taking to ensure that their dogs are being kept under control?

• Reference: 2014/3638
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Given your role in relation to policing in London, would you support creating an independent body or regulatory framework to review police decisions that use RIPA outside of terrorist investigations?

• Reference: 2014/3642
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Have you read my latest report, 'Risky Business', where I propose costed affordable wearable technology to protect frontline workers from violent attacks while on duty? To complement the excellent progress being made with the trials of body worn cameras in the Met, will you consider piloting New-York style wearable GPS panic buttons for appropriate staff that are mobile or work alone such as workers at train and tube stations and cabbies?

• Reference: 2014/3643
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Given your role in relation to policing and crime in London, do you commend the new set of guidance published by the Crown Prosecution Service, which states that the most serious cases of revenge pornography should be brought under Sexual Offences Act rather than obscenity laws, the former carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years?

• Reference: 2014/3529
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

What steps are the Metropolitan Police taking to implement the instruction from Employment tribunal judges, who recommended that they conduct an independent review of their "Fairness at Work" procedures following the case of PC Carol Howard, who was awarded more than £37,000 due to the ruling that she was discriminated against on the grounds of her race and gender?

• Reference: 2014/2667
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Will the Metropolitan Police consider following the lead of South Yorkshire and Hertfordshire Police in training specialist officers to use lie-detectors alongside existing measures on sex offenders to help assess their risk to local communities?