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• Reference: 2019/20693
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

A recent report by Liberty has named the Met as one of the police forces that uses, or plans to use, predictive mapping programs to predict crime. Please explain how these mapping programs work and how the algorithms are formulated to make decisions on where police should target their resources?

• Reference: 2019/20694
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It has been claimed that police forces across the UK are not fully aware how predictive mapping programs work. What are you doing to ensure both the Met and the public understand how these predictive mapping programs and algorithms work?

• Reference: 2019/20695
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Do you accept that a reliance on such predictive mapping programs and algorithms can lead to a significant risk of so-called ‘automation bias’, where police officers are deferring key decisions to this technology?

• Reference: 2019/20696
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It has been claimed that predictive mapping programs and algorithms reflect and re-enforce existing patterns of discrimination, which will often mean officers will be directed to attend already over-policed areas. Will you consider using your Ethics Panel to review and advise on any further use of such programs?

• Reference: 2019/20697
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

With a programme of police station closures underway across London please advise where the thousands of new officers you are expecting to recruit to the Met are going to be based?

• Reference: 2019/20698
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Following the independent report by The Network for Police Monitoring, which concluded that during the recent Extinction Rebellion protests the police “systematically discriminated against disabled protesters by failing to meet their needs”, how will you be working with the Met and others to ensure that disabled people have the right to protest like everyone else, and are treated fairly and with dignity in such circumstances?

• Reference: 2019/20699
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Please provide the latest figures, broken down by month, of hit and run incidents in London. Please include how many of these incidents resulted in fatalities or serious injuries, and how many cases resulted in conviction.

• Reference: 2019/20700
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What are you doing to ensure people feel safe on London’s transport network considering that for the 2018/19-year thefts increased by 20% on the previous year?

• Reference: 2019/20701
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What are you doing, working with British Transport Police, to tackle the increase in thefts on our transport network?

• Reference: 2019/20702
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Data for the last year shows that people over the age of 65 are increasingly being targeted by thieves and account for over 20% of all thefts on our transport network. What targeted actions are you planning for our elderly population to protect them against theft and crime on our transport network?