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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?

  • Police Recruitment

    • Reference: 2021/1192
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    What is the current Metropolitan Police non-white recruitment target?

  • Missing Drugs From Policy Custody

    • Reference: 2021/1193
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    How many instances of drugs going missing from the custody of the Metropolitan Police were there in the period 2016-2020? Could you please tabulate your response by year, drug, quantity and borough (or Borough Command Unit)?

  • Diversity and Inclusion (1)

    • Reference: 2021/1195
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    How many Diversity and Inclusion advisers does the Metropolitan Police currently employ?

  • Diversity and Inclusion (2)

    • Reference: 2021/1196
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    How much money did the Metropolitan Police spend on Diversity and Inclusion over the last five calendar years?

  • A Mayor For All Londoners

    • Reference: 2021/1191
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    In February 2016, before you became Mayor of London, you stated: ‘I will be a Mayor for all Londoners.’ Do you think your aspiration has been borne out by events? https://labourlist.org/2016/02/sadiq-khan-i-will-be-a-mayor-for-all-lon…