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• Reference: 2018/5215
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

There were at least 109 deaths of homeless Londoners last year, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. What will you do to reduce these tragic and avoidable deaths?

• Reference: 2018/5216
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Will you create new planning guidance and strengthen the draft new London Plan policies to better protect green spaces from development in areas of proven deficiency?

• Reference: 2018/5217
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Thank you for your response to my question 2018/2554. According to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Revised Code C Code of Practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers, published in February 2017, strip and intimate searches are conducted to find concealed articles and “shall not be routinely carried out if there is no reason to suggest articles are concealed.” Could you outline the different safeguarding risks that you mentioned in response to my previous question that would cause a Metropolitan Police officer to conduct a PACE Code C strip search?

• Reference: 2018/5218
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Could you provide a breakdown of the number of each PACE Code C a) strip, and b) intimate searches conducted on members of the public by Metropolitan Police Service officers in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017?

• Reference: 2018/5219
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Thank you for your response to my question 2018/0988. Will the new Special Services Agreement key performance indicators decided by the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC), Transport for London (TfL), and MOPAC include indicators that measure the effectiveness of reducing road danger for those who walk and cycle?

• Reference: 2018/5220
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Do Metropolitan Police Service officers who attend road collisions breathalyse all drivers involved in these incidents? If not, could you outline the reasons why they wouldn’t (other than being unconscious)?

• Reference: 2018/5221
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How many times have Metropolitan Police Service officers breathalysed drivers involved in a road traffic incident in each year since 2015?

• Reference: 2018/5222
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Since releasing the Vision Zero action plan in July 2018, setting out your more ambitious and proactive measures to reducing road danger, are you planning to increase the capacity and resources of the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC)?

• Reference: 2018/5223
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

In January 2015, when the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) was announced, the previous Mayor said that this new command would be: “capable of delivering hundreds of thousands more hours a year of road safety activity than before.” There are now 143 fewer traffic officers than in 2015. What has led to this decline in officer numbers, is there an optimal number of officers, and is there a target for increasing these numbers in future?

• Reference: 2018/5224
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How many Londoners convicted of serious drink-related offences have been fitted with an electronic ‘sobriety’ tag that detects alcohol levels in the wearer's sweat and alerts the authorities when someone has breached an abstinence order? Could you provide data for years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018?