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  • High performance cars

    • Reference: 2019/21133
    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    Regarding the visibility of high performance cars, especially in the middle of the night at petrol stations and other late night premises occupied by alleged gang members. Some of my constituents feel this may show 'crime pays' to some people? What is being done to impound such vehicles? Please also can you provide the figures for the number of such cars impounded for each of the years December 2015 to November 2016, December 2016 to November 2017, December 2017 to November 2018 and December 2018 to November 2019?

  • County Lines

    • Reference: 2019/21134
    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    What the Met is doing to target so called Drug Lords to cut off funding and logistics support to County Lines, and would the Deputy Commissioner offer a private briefing for Assembly Members on the subject?

  • Cycling on Pavements (1)

    • Reference: 2019/21138
    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    What do TfL and the Metropolitan Police do to crackdown on incidents of cyclists riding illegally on the pavement?

  • Cycling on Pavements (2)

    • Reference: 2019/21139
    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    Are you content that TfL and the Metropolitan Police are doing enough to crackdown on incidents of cyclists riding illegally on the pavement?

  • Knife Crime

    • Reference: 2019/21069
    • Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    What are you doing to get knives off the streets of London?

  • Usman Khan

    • Reference: 2019/20761
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    On the afternoon of Friday 29 November, officers from the Metropolitan Police shot dead Usman Khan, who had stabbed two people to death on London Bridge. He had been released from prison after serving less than half of a 16-year sentence for serious terrorism offences. Three hours later, Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations Neil Basu stood outside New Scotland Yard and stated that he couldn't possibly speculate about the motives behind the attack. 1 Given that the police must have known within five minutes of killing him who Mr Khan was, how does Mr Basu’s statement make any rational sense...

  • Sanction Detection Rates

    • Reference: 2019/20862
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    The overall sanction detection rate, or number of crimes solved in the capital, fell by 27% in the 12 months to October. What work are you undertaking with the Crown Prosecution Service to help increase the number of crimes being solved?

  • Predictive Mapping Programs Used by the Met (1)

    • Reference: 2019/20693
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    A recent report by Liberty has named the Met as one of the police forces that uses, or plans to use, predictive mapping programs to predict crime. Please explain how these mapping programs work and how the algorithms are formulated to make decisions on where police should target their resources?

  • Predictive Mapping Programs Used by the Met (2)

    • Reference: 2019/20694
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    It has been claimed that police forces across the UK are not fully aware how predictive mapping programs work. What are you doing to ensure both the Met and the public understand how these predictive mapping programs and algorithms work?

  • Predictive Mapping Programs Used by the Met (3)

    • Reference: 2019/20695
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    Do you accept that a reliance on such predictive mapping programs and algorithms can lead to a significant risk of so-called ‘automation bias’, where police officers are deferring key decisions to this technology?