Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 23 February 2017 10.00 am

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

1.1  Apologies for absence were received from Kemi Badenoch AM, for whom Tony Arbour AM attended as a substitute, and from Peter Whittle AM.

1.2  During the question and answer session with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the Chairman welcomed pupils and staff from Culloden Primary School, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, who had come to observe the meeting from the public gallery.

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 Police and Crime Committee held on 26 January 2017 to be signed by the Chairman as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the Police and Crime Committee meeting held on 26 January 2017 be signed by the Chairman 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 completed and ongoing 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 outstanding and completed actions arising from the previous meetings of the Committee, as listed in the report, be noted.

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 recent action taken by the Chairman of the Police and Crime Committee, Steve O’Connell AM, under delegated authority, following consultation with the party Group Lead Members and Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM, namely to write to the Government to urge that the National, International and Capital City (NICC) grant allocated to the Metropolitan Police Service and the review of the way funding is allocated to the police properly reflects the responsibilities that the Metropolitan Police Service has to keep London safe.

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

5.2  Resolved:

That the recent action taken by the Chairman, Steve O’Connell AM, under delegated authority, following consultation with party Group Lead Members and Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM, be noted, namely to write to the Government to urge that the National, International and Capital City (NICC) grant allocated to the Metropolitan Police Service and the review of the way funding is allocated to the police properly reflects the responsibilities that the Metropolitan Police Service has to keep London safe.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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

The Committee is recommended to agree its report, Response to the Mayor’s Draft Police and Crime Plan.

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

6.2  The Committee’s response to the Mayor’s Draft Police and Crime Plan had been published with a supplementary agenda after the publication of the main agenda.  The Chairman had agreed to accept the report as urgent business under Section 100(B)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the special circumstances being that the Police and Crime Committee’s special scrutiny functions could only be exercised at a whole meeting of the Committee, and as the consultation deadline for the Mayor’s Draft Police and Crime Plan was 3 March 2017, this meeting would be the last opportunity for the Committee to review the Plan and make a report or recommendations on the Plan to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), which it was required to do by statute.

6.3  Resolved:

That the Police and Crime Committee’s report, Response to the Mayor’s Draft Police and Crime Plan, be agreed.

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, the monthly report for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime attached at Appendix 1 to the report; and

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

7.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat as background to the questions and answer session with MOPAC and the MPS.

7.2  The Chairman welcomed the following guests to the meeting:

·  Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; and

·  Craig Mackey QPM, Deputy Commissioner, MPS.

7.3  Before moving on to putting questions to the invited guests, the Chairman stated that on behalf of the Committee, he welcomed the appointment of Cressida Dick QPM as the new Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and that he would write to her on behalf of the Committee to congratulate her.  The Chairman also took the opportunity to place on record his thanks to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, retiring Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, for his contribution to policing and it was also agreed that the Chairman write to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM to formally thank him on behalf of the Committee. 

7.4  The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime stated that she was also very pleased with the appointment of Cressida Dick QPM as the new Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and she placed on record her thanks to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe for his 37 years’  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note the work programme, as set out in the report; and

(b)  Delegate authority to the Committee’s Chairman, Steve O’Connell AM, in consultation with party Group Lead Members and Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM to agree the topic and arrangements for the Committee’s meeting on 9 March 2017.

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

8.2  Resolved:

(a)  That the work programme as set out in the report be noted.

(b)  That it be agreed that authority be delegated to the Chairman, in consultation with party Group Lead Members and Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM, to agree the topic and arrangements for the next meeting of the Police and Crime Committee on 9 March 2017.

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

9.1  The date of the next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

10.1  There was no other business the Chairman considered urgent.

11.1  The meeting ended at 12.28pm.