Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 8 January 2015 10.00 am

1.1  Apologies for absence were received from Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM (Deputy Chair) and Jennette Arnold OBE AM.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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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 Police and Crime Committee held on 4 December 2014 to be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 4 December 2014 be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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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 additional correspondence, as listed in the report, be noted.

5.1  The Chair stated, that, before the Committee considered the other agenda items, she wanted to record the Committee’s concern about the attack on free speech and democracy arising from the atrocity committed at the office of the magazine, Charlie Hebdo, that had taken place in Paris on 7 January 2015.  She expressed the Committee’s condolences to all the family and friends of the murdered people.  She added that the Committee wished to express its solidarity with London’s sister city, Paris. The Chair urged Londoners to be vigilant and to report any concerns to and co-operate with the Police and security services.

5.2  The Committee observed a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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The Committee is recommended to note the report and put questions to the invited guests on youth reoffending and re-settlement.

6.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat, as background to putting questions to the invited guests on youth reoffending and resettlement.

6.2  The Chair welcomed the following guests for the first part of the question and answer session on youth reoffending and resettlement:

·  Dr Tim Bateman, Reader in Youth Justice, University of Bedfordshire;

·  Dr Alex Newbury, Senior Lecturer, Brighton Business School;

·  Graham Robb, Youth Justice and Education consultant; and

·  Lisa Harvey-Messina, Head of London Business Area, Youth Justice Board. 

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

6.4  During the discussion Lisa Harvey-Messina undertook to provide the Committee with some general information about reoffending rates and a breakdown of reoffending rates at borough level.

6.5  The Chair stated that she would write to the invited guests to seek their views on what role the Mayor should have in the youth justice system and what additional actions the Mayor should take in the future.  The Chair also invited the guests to write with any comments they might have about Project Daedalus and the Heron Unit or any other aspects of youth reoffending and resettlement.

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Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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The Committee is recommended to agree its report The Diversity of the Met’s Frontline.

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

7.2  Resolved:

  That the Committee’s report, The diversity of the Met’s frontline, be agreed.

7.3  Tony Arbour AM drew the Committee’s attention to the fact that the GLA Conservatives Members on the Committee were not convinced about recommendation 3, in respect of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime opening up a dialogue with Government around the feasibility of implementing a law change in future if the MPS were unable to recruit more Black and Minority Ethnic officers in the next two years, as the GLA Conservatives Members were not certain that the experience in Northern Ireland could be replicated in London.  The Chair noted that the report had stated that there was not unanimous support on the Committee for that recommendation.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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

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

8.2  Resolved:

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

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for 10.00am on Thursday 29 January 2015 in the Chamber, City Hall.

9.1  The date of the next meeting was scheduled for 10am on Thursday, 29 January 2015 in the Chamber, City Hall.

10.1  The Chair stated that, on behalf of the Committee, she had written to Cressida Dick QPM CBE, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service, to congratulate her on the award of the CBE for services to policing in the New Year’s Honours List.

11.1  The meeting ended at 12.52pm.