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• Reference: 2021/1180
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Can you provide further details on how the VRUs “MyEnds” funding will help individual consortiums?

• Reference: 2021/0783
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Can you tell me how many times Met Police Officers have been called to supermarkets to respond to COVID-19 rule breaking in 1) London Borough of Hackney and 2) London Borough of Islington and 3) London Borough of Waltham Forest?

• Reference: 2021/0380
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

How confident you are that the new transport patrols carried out by a new ‘Project Servator’ team will prevent an attack in London given a warning that investigations are at a record high? What part can Londoners play in this for their own safety?

• Reference: 2021/0381
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has recently said that online radicalisation has got worse during the pandemic and police are really concerned about that. Will the new website together with a new national Police Prevent Advice Line do the job to tackle this issue? What steps are being taken to monitor the progress?

• Reference: 2021/0389
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Do you agree that the UK no longer being a member of Europol is a huge loss to the Met Police?

• Reference: 2020/4032
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The IOPC’s review of Stop and Search brought up a number of concerning issues. I was glad to see the Met Police accept all recommendations made by this review. However, will you continue to use your voice to encourage the police to do all they can to establish trust with the Black community in London, who are disproportionately affected by Stop and Search?

• Reference: 2020/4033
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

A leaked report revealed that the Met decided not to routinely release Body Worn Video footage, due to examples of “poor communication, a lack of patience, [and] a lack of de-escalation before use of force is introduced”. Further on in this leaked report, a senior police officer states that releasing footage of this kind could “exacerbate not prevent ‘trial by social media’ and increase media interest in an incident.” Do you think this is appropriate, or do you think the Met has a responsibility to release this footage?

• Reference: 2020/4034
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

There has been a 41% increase in police being called out to help with mental health emergencies. Police involvement in these kinds of incidents can be harrowing on the person in need of help and specialist mental health care is what is needed. Will you call on the Government to provide more funding for frontline mental health services, which will no doubt be under more pressure due to Covid-19?

• Reference: 2020/3349
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Will the Met be trialling or reviewing the new ‘Taser 7’ model, before rolling it out to officers?

• Reference: 2020/3350
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Why is demographic data on the use of taser not published and readily available as part of the Met’s online databases.