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• 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: 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...