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• 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: 2021/0401
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

According to answers to Mayor’s Questions MQ 2019/4137 and MQ 2020/1644, approximately 23,000 Metropolitan Police Service officers and staff have been given unconscious bias training 1 . 2 How much did this cost? 1 https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2019/4137 2 https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2020/1644

• Reference: 2021/0403
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

A highly irregular incident occurred on Sunday 24th January, when City of London Police attended a political campaign recording in the Borough of Southwark. This was on London Bridge Street. According to mayoral candidate Brian Rose, he and his crew were arrested and issued penalty notices for breaching lockdown regulations. Two officers of City Police intervened as Rose began a speech to camera. On request by the officers, Rose's campaign manager produced documents that he claimed were permits from councils. Why were City of London Police operating outside their area, in the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, and what knowledge...

• Reference: 2021/0404
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Do you know why a City of London Police officer asked a London Mayoral candidate for permits for filming on a public street within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2021/0054
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Do you consider that the actions of the Metropolitan Police with respect to Covid-19 have been proportionate to its severity?

• Reference: 2020/4327
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor how many people have been given fixed penalty notices for failing to wear a face covering on public transport and what has been the total value of the fines?

• Reference: 2020/4335
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Does G4S or any other private company supply the Metropolitan Police with any policing services? If so, what powers of policing do they have?

• Reference: 2020/4321
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Are you satisfied that the Metropolitan Police are currently upholding the Peelite principles of policing?