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• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to the Commissioner and it is about screening out crime. I have been raising a number of questions over many years about when the MPS first introduced screening out crime, and I recognise there have been some changes along the path of where it has got to at the moment. I also recognise it is a valuable tool. Do not put me in the view that you should not be doing it or anything like that, but is the MPS using it properly and appropriately, and are we screening...

• 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?