Agenda and minutes
Online Crime Working Group - Tuesday 21 October 2014 10.00 am

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

1.1  An apology for absence was received from Jennette Arnold OBE AM.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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

The Working Group 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  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

2.2  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 Working Group is recommended to note its membership and chairing arrangements, as agreed at the meeting of the Police and Crime Committee on 9 October 2014:

Roger Evans AM (Chairman);

Tony Arbour AM

Jennette Arnold OBE AM;

Joanne McCartney AM; and

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM.

3.1  Resolved:

That the membership and chairing arrangements of the Online Crime Working Group, as agreed at the meeting of the Police and Crime Committee on 9 October 2014, and as set out below, be noted.

Roger Evans AM (Chairman);

Tony Arbour AM;

Jennette Arnold OBE AM;

Joanne McCartney AM; and

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM.

The Working Group is recommended to note its term of reference, as set out below, which was agreed by the Police and Crime Committee at its meeting on 9 October 2014:

To gather evidence on behalf of the Police and Crime Committee on the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to the new threat that cyber-enabled crimes present and report back to the Committee, which may then make recommendations on this issue.

4.1  Resolved:

That the term of reference of the Online Crime Working Group, as agreed by the Police and Crime Committee at its meeting on 9 October 2014 and as set out below, be noted.

To gather evidence on behalf of the Police and Crime Committee on the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to the new threat that cyber-enabled crimes present and report back to the Committee, which may then make recommendations on this issue.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Dan Maton, [email protected], 020 7983 4681

The Working Group is recommended to note the report as background to putting questions to invited guests on online crime in London and to note the discussion.

5.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat, as background to putting questions to invited guests on online crime in London.

5.2  The Chairman welcomed the following guests to the meeting:

·  Professor Marian Fitzgerald, Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent;

·  Professor Mark Button, Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies, University of Portsmouth; and

·  Simon Dukes, Chief Executive Officer, CIFAS (The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service).

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

5.4  During the course of the discussion, Simon Dukes, CIFAS, agreed to provide the Online Crime Working Group with the map to which he had referred during the discussion, which demonstrated the location of crimes reported to CIFAS within a kilometre of City Hall within the last few months.

5.5  Resolved:

  That the report and answers given by the invited guests for the question and answer session on online crime in London, be noted.

The next meeting of the Working Group is scheduled for Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

6.1  The date of the next meeting of the Online Crime Working Group was scheduled for Thursday 27 November 2014 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

7.1  There was no other business the Chair considered urgent.

8.1  The meeting ended at 11.46am.