Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 8 March 2012 2.00 pm

To receive any apologies for absence and any announcements from the Chair.

1.1  Apologies for absence were received on behalf of Gareth Bacon AM and Mike Tuffrey AM

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note the list of memberships of functional bodies and London Borough Councils, as set out in the table at Item 2;

(b)  Note the gifts and hospitality received by Members, as set out on the Authority’s gifts and hospitality register; and

(c)  Declare any other personal or personal prejudicial interests in specific items listed on the agenda over and above those items listed in the table at Item 2 and including any interests arising from gifts or hospitality received within the previous three years or from the date of election to the London Assembly, whichever is the later, which are not at the time of this meeting reflected on the Authority’s register of gifts and hospitality.

2.1  Resolved: 

(a)   That the relevant Assembly Members’ membership of Functional Bodies and London Borough Councils, as set out in Item 2 on the agenda, be noted and recorded as personal interests;

(b)  That gifts and hospitality received by Members in the previous three years, as set out on the Authority’s gifts and hospitality register be noted; and

(c)  That the declared personal interest of Jennette Arnold OBE AM in respect of Agenda Item 5 (Question and Answer session with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the Deputy Commissioner), as the former Chair of the Stephen Lawrence Trust Foundation, be noted.

The Committee is recommended to confirm the minutes of the meeting of the Police and Crime Committee held on 23 February 2012 to be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the Police and Crime Committee meeting held on 23 February 2012 be confirmed and signed by the Chair as a correct record, subject to the insertion of a sentence recording the Committee’s best wishes to Anne McMeel, the Director of Finance at the MPS, upon stepping down from that role.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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That the Committee notes the ongoing, outstanding and completed actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee, as listed in the report.

4.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

4.2  Resolved:

That the, ongoing, outstanding and completed actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee, as listed in the report, be noted.

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note as background to the question and answer session with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the Deputy Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) the monthly report from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime attached at Appendix 1; and

(b)  Note the answers given by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the Deputy Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Service to the questions asked by Members.

5.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

5.2  Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, andCraig Mackey, Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (appearing on behalf of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, who had submitted his apologies for this meeting), attended to answer the Committee’s questions about the work of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime [MOPC] and related issues, including the Commissioner’s proposed new approach to stop and search.

5.3  A transcript of the discussion is attached at Appendix 1.

5.4  During the discussion, the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime committed to:

·  holding formal monthly board meetings with the MOPC and MPS management boards with minutes of those meetings to be published;

·  providing the Committee with details of how external legal advice was being procured by the MOPC and MPS for those giving evidence in connection with the Leveson Inquiry;

·  analysing victims – aged 60 and over - of all crime types, and the number of disabled people in London who had been victims of anti-social behaviour in order to establish any trends that needed to be addressed; and providing the Committee with this data and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.1  The Committee noted:

a)  That the next meeting of the Police and Crime Committee would be held on 22 May at 3.30pm in the Chamber subject to confirmation of the overall timetable of Assembly meetings at the Annual Meeting of the Assembly on 11 May 2012; and.

b)  That the Committee would be able to meet, in exceptional circumstances, during the pre-election period if any urgent issues arose.

7.1  The meeting ended at 4.35pm.