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  • Spit hoods use in custody suites (2)

    • Reference: 2019/17409
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Thank you for your recent answer to my question 2018/3075 from 22 November 2018. How many people have had spit hoods used on them in custody suites since 3 August 2017 up to the most recent data available, including a breakdown of the different age groups, gender and ethnicity (with ethnicity also broken down by gender)?
  • Spit hoods use in custody suites (3)

    • Reference: 2019/17410
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Thank you for your recent answer to my question 2018/3075 from 22 November 2018. However, this data did not include a breakdown within ethnicity of gender, and the ethnicity data contained repeated categories without explanation. Could you please provide an updated version of this dataset, which the cover sheet says was extracted on 15 April 2019 and covers the period up to 31 March 2019, to answer my question?
  • MPS and DSEI arms fair 2017 (2)

    • Reference: 2019/17411
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Thank you for your answer to my question 2017/3983. What was the final cost of policing the 2017 Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, including overtime?
  • Policing the DSEI arms fair 2019

    • Reference: 2019/17412
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    What is the estimated cost of policing the 2019 Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair? Could you break this down by a) police officer shifts, b) police staff shifts, c) number of police officers, d) opportunity costs, e) overtime costs, f) non-pay costs, and g) costs recovered from event organisers?
  • Policing the DSEI arms fair 2019 (2)

    • Reference: 2019/17413
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    In answer to my question 2017/2222, you rightly told me that you are: "opposed to London being used as a market place for the trade of weapons to those countries that contribute to human rights abuses." Given the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair will be held again in London this year, and that it is being heavily promoted by the Government, for example to the Hong Kong authorities, will you ask the Government to pay for the extra policing provided by London around this event?
  • Homeless victims of crime, judicial outcomes

    • Reference: 2019/17414
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    In answer to my question 2018/2551, you told me that from 2013 to 2017 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) recorded 18,099 victims of crime in London who were identified as homeless or with no fixed abode. Could you tell me how many victims of crime in London were homeless or had no fixed abode in 2018, and provide any information available about the judicial outcomes of these crimes?
  • Stop and search guidelines (2)

    • Reference: 2019/17415
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Do Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) procedures, training or officer guidelines for the deployment of stop and search ask police officers to attempt to engage with or obtain information from members of the public as witnesses before searching them as potential suspects?
  • MPS Facial Recognition System (4)

    • Reference: 2019/17416
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    How many images are now stored by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on its Facial Recognition System and how many different individuals does this include?
  • Facial recognition at Kings Cross

    • Reference: 2019/17417
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    It was reported in the Guardian on 13 August 2019 that you had written to Robert Evans, the chief executive of the King’s Cross development, to: “request more information about exactly how this [facial recognition] technology is being used,” and that you asked for: “reassurance that you [Evans] have been liaising with government ministers and the Information Commissioner’s Office to ensure its use is fully compliant with the law as it stands.” Has there also been any liaison between Kings Cross and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about the use of facial recognition on this site?
  • Helicopter image retention policy (3)

    • Reference: 2019/17418
    • Question by: Siân Berry
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    In your answer to my question 2017/4364, you told me that the National Police Air Service (NPAS) would be introducing a retention policy for footage and images recorded by helicopter cameras for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London by late January 2018. Could you now tell me: a) was this policy brought in, b) what is the retention period for non-evidential images, c) have all non-evidential images older than the retention period now been removed and permanently deleted, d) how many facial recognition searches have been conducted on images collected by NPAS, and e) what proportion of the database...