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  • Blue Badge Theft

    • Reference: 2023/4575
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 21 December 2023
    What action are you, the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London taking to address the significant uptick in Blue Badge theft in London?
  • NHS Staff Assaults

    • Reference: 2023/4356
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 16 November 2023
    Can you provide data on the number of assaults on NHS staff reported to the Metropolitan Police across the year 2022/23 and from April 2023 onwards? Can you also provide a borough breakdown?
  • Policing and Mental Health (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    Dr Onkar Sahota AM (Deputy Chair): Mr Mayor, just coming back on the question by Assembly Member Desai, there is universal agreement that the police should only be spending their time on policing issues and the fact that they are addressing so many mental health issues is a result of underinvestment over 13 years in the NHS and the NHS is stretched. However, the question that I really have is how this policy is implemented. The issues regarding Humberside are that Humberside was a small city with a small system. London is a much more complex system with much more...
  • Metropolitan Police Mental Health Callouts

    • Reference: 2022/1556
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 19 May 2022
    Over the last five years, the Metropolitan Police has responded to 130,000 mental health related callouts. Whilst blue light collaboration is vital, do you agree that this is a consequence of the Government’s underfunding of the NHS and their failed pledge to give mental health parity of esteem with physical health?
  • Fines for Unscrupulous Trading

    • Reference: 2022/1137
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 March 2022
    A Southall trader selling counterfeit face masks and illicit hand sanitiser bottles has been prosecuted by Ealing’s trading standards and fined £15,000. Is there any action the Metropolitan Police Service could take to deter other rogue traders?
  • Naloxone Pilot

    • Reference: 2022/1149
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 March 2022
    Can you provide an update on whether the Metropolitan Police have identified a pilot site for trialling equipping its officers with Naloxone spray?
  • Metropolitan Police attendance of mental health related callouts

    • Reference: 2022/0691
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
    Please provide an annual breakdown of the number of mental health related callouts that the Metropolitan Police have responded to over the last five years.
  • Police custody and mental health

    • Reference: 2022/0692
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
    Can you provide an update on discussions on the Metropolitan Police’s plans to limit the number of people ending up in police custody while going through a mental health crisis which also possibly include health workers and nurses accompanying police officers on certain patrols?
  • Metropolitan Police response to assaults on NHS staff

    • Reference: 2022/0696
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
    Can you provide a breakdown of the number of incidents that the Metropolitan Police have responded where NHS staff have been assaulted at London’s hospitals over the last three years?
  • Metropolitan Police response to anti-vax protests at hospitals and vaccination centres in London

    • Reference: 2022/0697
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
    How many incidents have the Metropolitan Police responded to where ‘anti-vax’ campaigners have targeted and caused disruption to hospitals and vaccination hubs, since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programme?