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  • The police and the press

    • Reference: 2022/5276
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    How are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to ensure that the rights of journalists to report on events such as protests are maintained?

  • University of Cambridge facial recognition report

    • Reference: 2022/5286
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    The October 2022 report, A sociotechnical audit: assessing police use of facial recognition, from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, said that the facial recognition deployments by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) failed to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards for the governance of this technology. Following the findings of this report will you urge the MPS to end its use of facial recognition technology?

  • Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews (2)

    • Reference: 2022/5287
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    Could you confirm if the pilot referenced in question 2022/0036 has now begun, and if so, when?

  • Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews (3)

    • Reference: 2022/5288
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/0036. Since the date of your response could you tell me: a) how many Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews (OWHRs) have started in London, b) how many Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews been completed in London, and c) any initial learnings from these Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews you can share with me?

  • Stop and search based on the smell of cannabis (2)

    • Reference: 2022/5289
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    How confident are you that all Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers in every Basic Command Unit (BCU) are clear that they should not rely on the smell of cannabis alone when deciding to stop and search someone?

  • Referrals to immigration services (1)

    • Reference: 2022/5290
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    How many referrals to immigration services have been made by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as a result of targeted immigration operations since January 2020?

  • Referrals to immigration services (2)

    • Reference: 2022/5291
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    How many referrals to immigration services have been made by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as a result of operations not targeted at immigration since January 2020? Could you provide a breakdown of these, showing which operations led to immigration service referrals?

  • Gangs Matrix

    • Reference: 2022/5292
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    Will you encourage the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and MOPAC to actively reach out to Londoners to tell them if they are or were ever on the Gangs Matrix?

  • MPS injuries policing Notting Hill Carnival

    • Reference: 2022/3907
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 17 November 2022
    In response to a recent FOI request, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) confirmed that 60 officers rather than 74 were injured across the two days of the Notting Hill Carnival as reported in a 30 August 2022 MPS press release and in response to question 2022/3095. Will you ask the MPS to update both the record to reflect the correct number of officers injured and the response to question 2022/3095?

  • MPS injuries policing the Queen’s funeral

    • Reference: 2022/3908
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 17 November 2022
    How many, if any, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers were injured across the six days policing the Queen’s lying-in state and funeral? Could you provide the nature of any injuries broken down by date and incident type, incident severity, injured part, and injury type?