Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 2 February 2012 2.00 pm

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

1.1  An apology for absence was received from Tony Arbour AM.

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note the list of memberships of functional bodies and London Borough Councils, as set out in the table at Item 3;

(b)  Note the gifts and hospitality received by Members, as set out on the Authority’s gifts and hospitality register; and

(c)  Declare any other personal or personal prejudicial interests in specific items listed on the agenda over and above those items listed in the table at Item 2 and including any interests arising from gifts or hospitality received within the previous three years or from the date of election to the London Assembly, whichever is the later, which are not at the time of this meeting reflected on the Authority’s register of gifts and hospitality.

2.1  Resolved:

(a)   That the list of memberships of functional bodies and London borough councils, as set out in the table at Item 2, be noted as personal interests; and

(b)  That gifts and hospitality received by Members, as set out on the Authority’s gifts and hospitality register, be noted.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Tim Jarvis, [email protected], 020 7983 4390

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 Commissioner for the   Metropolitan Police Service:

(i)   The monthly report from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime attached at Appendix 1; and

(ii)   The summary of recent reports on the August 2011 disturbances in paragraphs 4.1 to 4.7; and

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

3.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat and the appended monthly report produced by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC).

3.2  The Committee put questions to Kit Malthouse AM (Deputy Mayor for Policing) and Bernard Hogan-Howe (Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service) on a range of issues in relation to policing in London, including on matters set out within the monthly report and on the August 2011 disturbances.

3.3  A transcript of the discussion is attached as Appendix 1.

3.4  During the discussion, the Committee noted that the Deputy Mayor for Policing undertook to:

·  Ensure that future monthly MOPC reports provide information to the Committee in the most transparent form possible (ie open data format);

·  Establish a forward plan to enable the Committee to see when key decisions are to be made by the MOPC and the MPS

·  Provide up to date statistics on knife crime and serious youth violence in future monthly reports;

·  Provide details of how the MPS intend to recruit 1,138 PCSOs and 1,576 civilian staff by 31 March; and

·  Confirm the number of Gold meetings which had taken place during the summer 2011 disturbances, which organisations attended which meetings  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Tim Jarvis, [email protected], 020 7983 4390

That the Committee agrees the work programme for the remainder of the 2011/12 year, as set out in the report.

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

4.2  Resolved:

That the work programme for the remainder of the 2011/12 year, as set out in the report, be noted.

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for 23 February 2012 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

5.1  The next meeting of the Police and Committee was scheduled for 23 February 

2012 at 10.00am in the Chamber, City Hall.

6.1  The meeting ended at 12.38 pm.