- Reference: 2016/3874
- Question by: Unmesh Desai
- Meeting date: 19 October 2016
Recently the Barking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce met with the local business community, Members of Parliament Jon Cruddas for Dagenham and Rainham, and Mike Gapes for Ilford South, and representatives from the Metropolitan Police and councils covering the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, and Havering. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a cross border, tri-borough approach to the growing issue of unlawful encampments in the respective areas. The meeting which was formulated around creating a multi-agency cross border team with the authority, working with police elements to move members of the travelling community on before any...