• Reference: 2024/1219
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Do you believe that the work of the Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion (CD&I) Directorate in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) goes far enough for ‘root and branch’ reform, by making sure Disabled Police officers are treated in line with the Equality Act and Public Sector Equality Duty?

• Reference: 2024/1218
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

How does work on dismantling disablism in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), as evidenced in the Baroness Casey Review, include Disabled representatives?

• Reference: 2024/1217
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The most recent Mayor’s Equality Report covered the period between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2022. When will your next Mayor’s Equality Report be published?

• Reference: 2024/1216
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/0399. I’ve been told Disabled Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers have said the engagement process during the CONNECT implementation did not go far enough, and that they were worried about being penalised for poor performance, or managed out of their roles due to the lack of accessibility aids for CONNECT. Do you agree that involving Disabled officers and staff at the start of any project that would affect them is the best thing to do and will you encourage the MPS to make more use of co-production models when dealing with equality...

• Reference: 2024/1215
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Could you provide an up-to-date list of all Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) staff support associations that are recognised by the MPS?

• Reference: 2024/1214
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have any guidance or data management policies on how staff support associations or staff networks are run, organised and set up? If so, could you share this and any other guidance these networks are expected to follow?

• Reference: 2024/1213
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/0405, in which you said: “Owing to the way in which public order event data is captured, it would be impracticable to manually search Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) records for this answer.” Why is it possible to “manually search Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) records” for Just Stop Oil protests and not for other kinds of protests?

• Reference: 2024/1212
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) encourages officers not to “start from a position that treats sex workers as criminals simply for being sex workers or engaging in practices that have been undertaken to increase their own personal safety, such as, ‘managing or keeping brothels.’” How are you ensuring that this is put into practice by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)?

• Reference: 2024/1211
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

With regard to Operation Boxster’s stated aim: “To adopt a partnership approach balancing enforcement, intelligence and engagement around police contact with sex workers improving the lives of ‘sex workers’ and communities” and the underlying principle that: “Policing starts from a position that seeks to address vulnerability and exploitation,” could you tell me how many sex workers’ lives were improved by getting arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)?

• Reference: 2024/1210
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

How many sex workers were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on all offences, including for non-sex work-related offences in 2023? Could you provide the data broken down by borough, gender and ethnicity?