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• Reference: 2020/4323
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor how many Section 35 Dispersal Orders were issued in the Metropolitan Police District over the last three years and to tabulate your response by borough.

• Reference: 2020/4324
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor what has been the Metropolitan Police’s compliance level in handling Freedom of Information requests over the last three years?

• Reference: 2020/4325
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

What effect is the Metropolitan Police’s decision to abandon its tried and tested regime of ensuring all officers start at constable and working their way up through the ranks, currently having on the morale of the force’s junior ranks?

• Reference: 2020/4328
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

I note the report in The Times newspaper on 5 October 2020 that a total of 1,343 pieces of evidence were recorded as lost or misplaced by the Metropolitan Police from the start of 2013 to 15 May 2020, according to data obtained under a Freedom of Information request 1 . Would you please explain how this state of affairs has come about and what steps are being taken by the Metropolitan Police to rectify it? 1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/met-police-has-lost-1-300-pieces-of-… .

• Reference: 2020/4331
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor if you are happy with the level of performance of Action Fraud, the UK's national fraud reporting service, run by the City of London Police?

• Reference: 2020/4332
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

I note that TM Eye, which runs ‘My Local Bobby’ has successfully prosecuted Nicholas Richards, who has more than 50 previous convictions for shoplifting, after officers from the Metropolitan Police declined to become involved, when he was observed on CCTV stealing Gucci perfume worth £170 from Boots in Piccadilly, central London. TM Eye launched My Local Bobby two years ago. Its 30 ‘bobbies’, uniformed with red vests and caps, provide cover 24/7 for up to 250 houses and businesses on each beat. It promises to have a response officer at the scene within five minutes for a fee of £100...

• Reference: 2020/4333
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

How much tax-payers’ money has the Metropolitan Police expended in its various investigations into the activities of the journalist Darren Grimes? Is he still under investigation and if so, for what?

• Reference: 2020/4341
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

I would like some assurance from you that under the current Coronavirus restrictions officers of the Metropolitan Police will not be entering licensed premises to argue with landlords and customers about whether a Scotch Egg constitutes a ‘substantial’ meal and ordering customers to leave pub premises as soon as they had finished their meals, thus preventing them from ordering more drinks 1 . In my opinion, for a variety of reasons, which I have previously raised, the Metropolitan Police has not done its reputation any favours over the last year and I believe that a heavy-handed approach to this issue...

• Reference: 2020/4322
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Do you think it is ever appropriate for senior officers of the Metropolitan Police to engage in matters of political controversy?

• Reference: 2020/4243
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

What has been the outcome of the Metropolitan Police's review into the security failure at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day (11 November 2020), when activists from Extinction Rebellion hijacked the event?