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  • Operation Midland

    • 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?
  • Metropolitan Police Clear Up Rates

    • 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?
  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (1)

    • Reference: 2021/1199
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    I note that on 24 February 2021 Mr Toyin Agbetu - one of your Commissioners for Diversity in the Public Realm resigned, after his blog posts commenting on Jewish people were brought to City Hall’s attention by Jewish News . One of his posts claimed there was an ‘immoral hierarchy of suffering’ which had seen victims of the Holocaust ‘served well by Nazi hunters’ compared to African victims of the slave trade. Agbetu has also claimed that Jews played a leading role in the Atlantic slave trade. In 2007, he also heckled the Queen, during a service at Westminster Abbey...
  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (2)

    • Reference: 2021/1200
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    Given that your recruitment due diligence failed to uncover the alleged anti-Semitism of one Commission appointee, what else might it have failed to pick up? How can Londoners have confidence in the people you have selected?
  • Stop and Search

    • 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?
  • Collapsed Behind Locked Doors

    • Reference: 2021/1235
    • Question by: Steve O'Connell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    In May 2020, a new pilot scheme was launched across four Met BCUs, enabling colleagues from London’s Fire Brigade (LFB) to assist the London Ambulance Service (LAS) for ‘collapsed behind locked doors’. For each of the BCUs involved, how many times has this been done?
  • PSO Counter Terrorism Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Team

    • Reference: 2021/1236
    • Question by: Steve O'Connell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    Since its creation, how many times has the PSO Counter Terrorism Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (CTUAV) team responded to: -Deploy drones -Mitigate a third party drone (Please provide the data monthly if possible)
  • Child Sexual Exploitation

    • Reference: 2021/1237
    • Question by: Steve O'Connell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    For each year 2018, 2019 and 2020, how many incidents of child sexual exploitation were recorded by the Met? If the number has increased, what are the reasons behind this?
  • Police Overtime

    • Reference: 2021/1238
    • Question by: Steve O'Connell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    For each year, 2018, 2019 and 2020, how much has been spent on police overtime?
  • National File Quality Standards

    • Reference: 2021/1239
    • Question by: Steve O'Connell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    What is the Met's National File Quality Standards file failure rate for 2020?