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• Reference: 2023/4826
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

On a site visit with the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee to Bethnal Green custody suite to hear from Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers about the Project ADDER trial we heard that stop and search is like: ‘taking a bulldozer to an archaeological dig’. Are you concerned that rates of stop and search for drugs in Tower Hamlets, where Project ADDER is being trialled, are above the London average?

• Reference: 2023/4827
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Project ADDER has trialled in Tower Hamlets and Hackney since July 2021. Could you tell me what, if any, information sharing there has been between third sector organisations and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) related to Project ADDER and if authorisation was given by the data subjects for that data to be shared?

• Reference: 2023/4828
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How is Project ADDER helping with drug harm reduction? Are you and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tracking metrics such as rates of overdoses and times to access drug treatments in each of the boroughs involved?

• Reference: 2023/4829
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How is the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) measuring the success of Project ADDER and what KPIs and targets does the MPS have for the project?

• Reference: 2023/4830
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

I understand that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Project ADDER is trialling a Deferred Prosecution Pilot. Can you confirm whether this “diversion” programme is on street diversion, pre or post arrest diversion, or court diversion and how this is recorded for the purposes of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks?

• Reference: 2023/4831
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Do police officers working in schools as Safer Schools Officers undergo any additional or specialist vetting such as an enhanced DBS check?

• Reference: 2023/4796
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) seems to be experimenting with different ways of policing protests in London. What conversations have you had with the MPS about the way a protest is policed in London?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. As my new year resolution for City Hall, I think we can all agree that the office of the Mayor of London should not be for sale in the new year. I made public earlier this week that United Airlines secured free publicity and final sign off on City Hall materials in exchange for business class flights for your trip to the United States [of America] (USA) in May 2022. Now, Mr Mayor, it sounds like this may have been a one-off error of judgement, but the months-long delay in responding to our questions...

• Reference: 2023/4382
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

A constituent has written to me concerned that some toilets on the Transport for London (TfL) network are being closed. What are you doing to improve toilet availability, and avoid toilet closures?

• Reference: 2023/4399
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1860, in which you said: “MOPAC intends to publish the Drugs Problem Profile […] later in 2023.” Could you give me a publication date?