Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 25 June 2015 10.00 am

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

1.1  An apology for absence was received from John Biggs AM, for whom Navin Shah AM substituted.

1.2  An apology for absence was also received on behalf of Stephen Greenhalgh, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, who had been due to attend the Committee for Agenda Item 4 (Question and Answer Session with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service).

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.

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, as listed in the report.

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

3.2  Resolved:

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

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact:  Janette Roker, [email protected]; 020 7983 6562

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 at Appendix 1 to the report;

(b)  Note the answers given by invited guests in part 1 of the question and answer session on how the MPS and the Crown Prosecution Service handle rape cases in London; and

(c)  Note the report and answers given by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the MPS to the questions asked by Members in part 2 of the question and answer session.

4.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat, as background to the question and answer session with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

4.2  The first part of the question and answer session was used to discuss how the MPS and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) handled rape cases in London.  The Chair welcomed the following guests to the meeting:

·  The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC;

·  Baljit Ubhey OBE, Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS;

·  Pat Gallan QPM, Assistant Commissioner, MPS; and

·  Helen Bailey, Chief Operating Officer, MOPAC.

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

4.4  During the discussion, the Assistant Commissioner, MPS and Chief Crown Prosecutor (CPS), undertook to provide details about how the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC would be scrutinised to ensure they had been implemented effectively.

4.5   During the discussion, the Assistant Commissioner, MPS, undertook to provide details about the specialised evidential and forensic training for police officers who provided the initial response to rape victims.

4.6  During the discussion the Chief Operating Officer, MOPAC, undertook to provide details about the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

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.

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

5.2  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 Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

6.1  The date of the next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 10.00 am in the Chamber, City Hall.

7.1  There was no other business the Chair considered urgent.

8.1  The Chair welcomed the following guests to the meeting:

·  Mark Rowley QPM, Assistant Commissioner, MPS;

·  Detective Superintendent Jim Stokley, Counter terrorism Command, MPS Regional Prevent Co-ordinator; and

·  Helen Bailey, Chief Operating Officer, MOPAC.

8.2  A transcript of the discussion of the question and answer session is attached at Appendix 2.

8.3   Detective Superintendent Jim Stokley, Counter terrorism Command, MPS Regional Prevent Co-ordinator, left the meeting at the conclusion of the discussion on preventing extremism.  The Chair thanked him for his attendance.

8.4  Mark Rowley QPM, Assistant Commissioner, MPS, left the meeting at the conclusion of the discussion on body worn video cameras.  The Chair thanked him for his attendance.

8.5  During the discussion the Chief Operating Officer, MOPAC, undertook to:

·  Provide the terms of reference of the London Contest Board once they had been agreed, the makeup of the Board and its meetings schedule; and

·  Provide information about the cost of procuring body worn video cameras once the procurement process had concluded.

8.6  At the conclusion of the discussion, the Chair thanked the Chief Operating Officer for her attendance.

8.7  Resolved:

(a)  That the report be noted, as background to the question and answer session with  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

9.1  The meeting ended at 12.17pm.