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• Reference: 2021/1197
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Is there anything about Operation Midland (the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech’s bogus claims about a VIP paedophile ring) that you think could have been handled differently?

• Reference: 2021/1198
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What have been the Metropolitan Police’s clear up rates for murder, burglary, rape and Grievous Bodily Harm over the last five years?

• Reference: 2021/1201
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

On 26 February 2021, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services published its report into the police use of stop and search powers. It raised the prospect of abandoning stop and search for drugs altogether, stating that damage may outweigh the benefits. ‘While suspicions about drugs are stated as the reason in the majority of the half a million stop and searches in England and Wales annually, illicit substances were found on only one in four occasions.’ Does the Metropolitan Police regard one in four as an effective detection rate?

• Reference: 2021/1207
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

With reference to your answer to my question MQ2020/1050, it concerns me that non-crime hate incidents are criminalising people for expressing their opinions within the law and this was not recognised in your answer. For instance, Harry Miller, that Mr Justice Julian Knowles concluded his tweets were: “lawful and that there was not the slightest risk that he would commit a criminal offence by continuing to tweet”. Does the Metropolitan Police Service recognise the fundamental right that people who have expressed opinions within the law should not be criminalised in this way and have non-crime hate incident allegations recorded against...

• Reference: 2021/1208
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In your answer to my question MQ2020/1052, you stated that during the period 2014 to 2019, 9,473 people had non-crime hate incidents recorded against them by the Metropolitan Police Service. How do you expect Londoners to trust or have any credibility in these figures, when the case of Harry Miller revealed that people expressing opinions within the law are been criminalised by having non-crime hate incidents recorded against them? Ref: https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2020/1052

• Reference: 2021/1209
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In the MailOnline article ‘Police log 120,000 ‘hate reports’ – but not ONE is a crime’, 13 February 2021, Harry Miller a former police officer and co-founder of the Fair Cop campaign group said: “Non-crime hate incident reports do not appear to have any usefulness as a crime prevention tool, but what they do have is a chilling effect on free speech because they make people think twice before saying or posting something on social media in the fear that it could land them with a criminal record. “These reports have allowed the police to become weaponised by woke activists...

• Reference: 2021/1192
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What is the current Metropolitan Police non-white recruitment target?

• Reference: 2021/1193
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How many instances of drugs going missing from the custody of the Metropolitan Police were there in the period 2016-2020? Could you please tabulate your response by year, drug, quantity and borough (or Borough Command Unit)?

• Reference: 2021/1195
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How many Diversity and Inclusion advisers does the Metropolitan Police currently employ?

• Reference: 2021/1196
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How much money did the Metropolitan Police spend on Diversity and Inclusion over the last five calendar years?