Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 18 December 2014 10.00 am

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

1.1  No apologies for absence were received.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact:  Joanna Brown, [email protected] and Teresa Young, [email protected]; 020 7983 6559

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note the list of offices held by Assembly Members, as set out in the table at Agenda Item 2, as disclosable pecuniary interests;

(b)  Note the declaration by any Member(s) of any disclosable pecuniary interests in specific items listed on the agenda and the necessary action taken by the Member(s) regarding withdrawal following such declaration(s); and

(c)  Note the declaration by any Member(s) of any other interests deemed to be relevant (including any interests arising from gifts and hospitality received which are not at the time of the meeting reflected on the Authority’s register of gifts and hospitality, and noting also the advice from the GLA’s Monitoring Officer set out at Agenda Item 2) and to note any necessary action taken by the Member(s) following such declaration(s).

2.1  Resolved:

That the list of offices held by Assembly Members, as set out in the table at Agenda Item 2, be noted as disclosable pecuniary interests.

The Committee is recommended to confirm the minutes of the meeting of the Online Crime Working Group held on 27 November 2014 to be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the Online Crime Working Group meeting held on 27 November 2014 be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Joanna Brown, [email protected] and Teresa Young, [email protected] 020 7983 6559

The Committee is recommended to note the outstanding and completed actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee and additional correspondence, as listed in the report. 

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

4.2   Resolved:

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

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Matt Bailey, [email protected]; 020 7983 4014

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 Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the monthly report from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (attached as Appendix 1 to the Committee’s report);

(b)  Note the answers given by invited guests on the MPS’s progress in implementing the recommendations in the report by the Independent Commission on Mental Health and Policing; and

(c)  Notes the answers given by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the MPS to the questions asked by Members in the second part of the session.

5.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat as background to the monthly question and answer session with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

5.2  The Chair explained that the question and answer session would be in two parts.  She welcomed the following guests for the first part of the question and answer session on mental health and policing:

·  Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive, Turning Point;

·  Craig Mackey QPM, Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS); and

·  Helen Bailey, Chief Operating Officer, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

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

5.4  During the course of the discussion the Deputy Commissioner undertook to inform the Committee of the custody units that were used as a place of safety for the 20 people detained under s.136 of the Mental Health Act in 2014; and a breakdown of any factors contributing to the use of those custody units for people in crisis.  The Committee also requested information about where practice had improved in custody units.

5.5  The Deputy Commissioner undertook to provide the Committee with information pertaining to the number of officers trained, and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Joanna Brown, [email protected] and Teresa Young, [email protected] 020 7983 6559

The Committee is recommended to note the response from the Metropolitan Police Service to its report, Keeping London’s children safe: The Met’s role in safeguarding children.

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

6.2  Resolved:

That the response from the Metropolitan Police Service to the Committee’s report, Keeping London’s children safe: The Met’s role in safeguarding children, be noted.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Becky Short, [email protected]; 020 7983 4760

The Committee is recommended to note the work programme, as set out at paragraph 4.1 of the report.

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

7.2  Resolved:

That the work programme, as set out at paragraph 4.1 of the report, be noted.

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for 10am on Thursday, 8 January 2015 in the Chamber, City Hall.

8.1  The date of the next meeting was scheduled for 10am on Thursday, 8 January 2015 in the Chamber, City Hall.

9.1  There was no other business the Chair considered urgent.

10.1  The meeting ended at 12.47pm.