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• Reference: 2020/4231
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

UCL’s JDI Institute for Global City Policing recently published a detailed survey looking at policing during the COVID-19 pandemic which showed, among other things, that the use of Live Facial Recognition technology was opposed by 55% of those surveyed. In light of this will you reconsider your support for the Met using this technology?

• Reference: 2020/4232
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

I understand that Wimbledon Police Station’s future has been secured for at least the next 2-3 years given the Merton/Wandsworth rapid response unit is moving there. However, can you provide any further update on long-term plans for the station?

• Reference: 2020/4233
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Appreciating that the pressures of COVID-19 and the uncertainty surrounding the number of additional officers the Met will receive from the Government’s officer uplift, please provide an update on when the Met expects to complete its revised Estate Strategy?

• Reference: 2020/4234
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Will MOPAC be working with the Met on how they dispose of any properties identified as no longer required in the Estate Strategy, particularly in looking at making sure the Met works with local authorities to ensure that not only maximum price is considered, but that for certain sites supplementary planning documents are worked up to ensure redevelopment of sites requires either community-based uses or developments with acceptable levels of affordable housing, regardless of their size?

• Reference: 2020/4235
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Hackney-based Sistah Space is the only specialist domestic violence charity for Afro-Caribbean women in the entire country. The recent agreement reached between Hackney Council and Sistah Space only gives them access to their current premises until 17 January 2020. Given the 300% growth in demand Sistah Space has seen since the start of COVID-19 and the fact that they receive funding for their specialist and vital services through MOPAC, can you please outline how both you and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime will be supporting them in their search for new premises?

• Reference: 2020/4236
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Sistah Space submitted a petition to you several weeks ago and are yet to receive a reply. Can you please outline when you will be replying to their petition?

• Reference: 2020/4237
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Can you please outline detail on the work MOPAC is doing to look at the role new forms of technology can play in domestic abuse, and how this can be tackled going forward?

• Reference: 2020/4239
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Please set out by borough how many Dispersal Orders and Public Space Protection Orders have been made so far this year?

• Reference: 2020/4240
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

For Barnet and Camden BCU and after merger for the relevant BCUs, and excluding holidays and short sickness absence, for the last 6 years please list the names and dates of their periods in charge of substantive, acting and temporary Borough and BCU commanders.

• Reference: 2020/4241
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

Barnet Council have taken the decision not to lock some parks at night due to COVID, which have already led to several instances of ASB in the night. Do you agree that in order to keep ASB down, these parks should be locked, and will you ask Barnet’s police commander to write to Barnet Council to ask them to lock the parks?