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• Reference: 2020/4316
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

In your answer to my question 2019/19697, you told me that it was not possible to provide data on how many times Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers used spit hoods in conjunction with other restraints in custody suites. Will you now reconsider making this data available, given that the importance of transparency and public access to data is highlighted in your new Action Plan?

• Reference: 2020/4317
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you give an update on the progress of the young persons’ action group being established by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and how it plans to work in partnership with the London Youth Assembly?

• Reference: 2020/4318
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) be the lead force at COP26?

• Reference: 2020/4319
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you provide data showing the number of arrests under coronavirus legislation, as well as the number of attendees, during each of the main protests in 2020 in central London held in support of a) Black Lives Matter, b) Extinction Rebellion, and c) Groups opposing coronavirus measures?

• Reference: 2020/4320
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

A new partnership led by Sheffield Hallam University, and including South Yorkshire’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), is to investigate the impact on young people of using images of knives in communications and police work, including whether it may cause more harm than good (https://www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-articles/latest-news/study-launched-impa…). Will you, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) or your own VRU be reviewing the use of knife images by the MPS in a similar way in the near future?

• Reference: 2020/3854
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/1955. Could you provide an update to this data showing how many protestors on Parliament Square have been: a) arrested b) had charges brought against them, and if available now c) been convicted during each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to date).

• Reference: 2020/3855
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation into the stop and search of Ms Bianca Williams and Mr Ricardo Dos Santos found that their three-month-old child had been added to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Merlin database for children known to the police. How many children are currently on this database? Please provide a breakdown by: a) age, for all age ranges captured on the database, b) ethnicity and, c) reason for being added to database?

• Reference: 2020/3856
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Thank you for your answers to my questions 2020/2646 and 2020/3327. There has been great confusion about the legality of protests during the ongoing coronavirus crisis and now, during this period of new national restrictions, Government has been clear that the larger gathering exemption for protests has been removed. Are you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) developing guidance to inform and facilitate socially distanced democratic protests in each of the Covid alert level tiers?

• Reference: 2020/3857
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Despite repeated requests from the community and members of the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee that Community Monitoring Groups are allowed to resume their viewing of body-worn video footage captured by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers during stop and search this has not yet happened. You recently said in response to MQ 2020/2836: “there is no legal pathway to routinely release footage except for exceptional circumstances.” With no public scrutiny of this footage for some time now, how can your claim that body-worn video is: “the biggest game changer in ensuring the human rights of all people are protected...

• Reference: 2020/3858
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

A report in the Guardian on 19 October 2020, titled ‘Leaked review of Met police body worn video footage reveals officer errors’, shows the continuing need for public scrutiny of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Why is it that the MPS internal memo mentioned in the report suggests it is reluctant to release the footage because it would exacerbate public criticism, and not, as you have previously stated, because it is legally restricted from doing so?