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• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Neil Garratt AM: I would like to reprise a question about fraud that I asked you at the Police and Crime Committee, I think on 2 October 2022. I was quite pleased with your answer about working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and taking a new approach, Commissioner, and obviously since then, we have seen the big iSpoof shutdown operation. First of all, I wanted to commend you on that operation, which obviously was quite a major piece of work. Have you seen a reduction in that sort of phone-based fraud as a result of that operation?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair, and my question is to Sir Mark first of all. You told the October 2022 Police and Crime Committee that: “What the public should see is us stabilising our neighbourhood policing, so people are less abstracted ...” Between quarter 1 (Q1) of 2020/21 and quarter 1 of 2022/23, the abstraction level for Dedicated Ward Officers fluctuated between 3.6% and 9.9%. I recently met with the ward panel representative of Queensbury Ward in my constituency in the London Borough of Brent, and it was a real issue that they were raising with their local Safer...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair, and the first question is to the Mayor. The MPS Estates Strategy was apparently handed to your office in Q1 of 2021/22. What are the reasons behind the delay in publishing it, and when do you expect to have that Strategy published?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. I want to speak a little bit more about the issue of fraud, building on Assembly Member Garratt’s line of questioning. I was absolutely shocked to see that fraud constitutes 41% of all crime committed in the UK and costs the UK £137 billion each year. Commissioner, I just wanted to ask if there is anything you wanted to expand on in terms of how confident you feel in the MPS’s ability to get a handle on tackling fraud. Then I will move on to yourself, Mr Mayor, to ask what we are doing...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair in the Chair): Thank you. I am now going to speak from the Chair - and, yes, the [group] clock is going. I was at a public meeting yesterday in South Hampstead; it was a packed meeting and the meeting subject was about law and order in the area. Residents there were very, very concerned about the open drug taking - in fact, open drug dealing - taking place around Finchley Road station, and aggressive begging. There was an impression amongst those present that there was a lack of visibility of the police, and some...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair, and my question is to both of you. Earlier this year, it was reported that of the 32 terror plots that have been found since 2017, 18 were Islamist-related, whilst 12 were motivated by a far-right ideology, an example of which we saw was the attack on the migrant centre in Dover last month. How is City Hall and the police service in London working with partners to understand and tackle the reasons why people are motivated to commit such acts? Mr Mayor.

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. I want to address some questions to the Commissioner. It sounds like a very simple question: the items that garner the news talk about ambulances stuck outside hospitals, with paramedics being detained there, unable to let people go into the hospital because the beds are full. However, we also know that the police are sometimes ending up at hospitals for lengthy periods and it does not catch the news quite to the same degree. My very simple question to you is: how much time are our police officers spending on non-policing activities?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to pick up on that point earlier about the language used, and that applies to parliamentary parties as well. The opposition particularly has to be really careful not to dehumanise the Government and politicians of the party in charge on the day. I and many of my colleagues receive death threats. We walk out of this building and do not have security surrounding us. That comes when opposition politicians call us ‘scum,’ and when they incite and praise violence. I stand with the Mayor. I see your Twitter and that is...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, thank you. My first question is for Sir Mark. Is the MPS good at supporting victims through the criminal justice service?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: T hank you. Mr Mayor, I do not know what is happening. We have been agreeing an awful lot today, which is somewhat unusual; however, I want to bring your attention to something. All of us agree that our police officers are invaluable, as are firefighters, ambulance drivers and so on. Many of them, because of the cost of housing in London, have to come in from outside. Consequently, quite naturally, the Metropolitan Police Federation is incensed that you are going to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) because it would mean that so many officers, who...