Agenda and minutes
Police and Crime Committee - Thursday 26 November 2015 10.00 am

1.1  An apology for absence was received from Roger Evans AM.

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 22 October 2015 to be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the Police and Crime Committee meeting held on 22 October 2015 be signed by the Chair 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 outstanding 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 completed and outstanding actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee, as listed in the report, be noted.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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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;

(b)  Note, as background to the question answer session with the Deputy Mayor for Police and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service, a summary table (attached at Appendix 2 to the report) setting out the impact of the recommendations in the Committee’s report, Tightening the Net; and

(c)  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.

5.1  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).

5.2  The Chair welcomed the following guests to the meeting:

·  Stephen Greenhalgh, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; and

·  Craig Mackey QPM, Deputy Commissioner, MPS.

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

5.4  During the course of the discussion, the Deputy Commissioner, MPS undertook to provide:

·  Data for reported hate crime since 13 November 2015;

·  A list of the items which would be discussed at the MPS’s Management Board meeting in January 2016, and details of those issues;

·  Details of to which budget money from seizures of uninsured cars goes;

·  Confirmation about the charge for releasing vehicles from the MPS car pounds when vehicles are used legally; and

·  Data on uninsured vehicles which were not registered in the United Kingdom.

5.5  During the course of the discussion, the Deputy Commissioner, MPS, undertook to give consideration to give consideration to a proposal for a knife amnesty in London and a further proposal to lobby the Government for a change in the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Agree its updated work programme, as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the report; and

(b)  Note the summary of its site visit on 29 October 2015 to the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC), as set out at paragraph 4.2 of the report.

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

6.2  Resolved:

(a)  That the updated work programme, as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the report, be agreed.

(b)  That the summary of the Committee’s site visit on 29 October 2015 to the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre, as set out in paragraph 4.2 of the report, be noted.

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 10am in the Chamber, City Hall.

7.1  The date of the next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 10am in the Chamber, City Hall.

8.1  There was no other business the Chair considered urgent.

9.1  The meeting ended at 12.18pm.