• Reference: 2023/4831
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Do police officers working in schools as Safer Schools Officers undergo any additional or specialist vetting such as an enhanced DBS check?

• Reference: 2023/4830
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

I understand that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Project ADDER is trialling a Deferred Prosecution Pilot. Can you confirm whether this “diversion” programme is on street diversion, pre or post arrest diversion, or court diversion and how this is recorded for the purposes of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks?

• Reference: 2023/4829
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How is the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) measuring the success of Project ADDER and what KPIs and targets does the MPS have for the project?

• Reference: 2023/4828
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How is Project ADDER helping with drug harm reduction? Are you and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tracking metrics such as rates of overdoses and times to access drug treatments in each of the boroughs involved?

• Reference: 2023/4827
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Project ADDER has trialled in Tower Hamlets and Hackney since July 2021. Could you tell me what, if any, information sharing there has been between third sector organisations and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) related to Project ADDER and if authorisation was given by the data subjects for that data to be shared?

• Reference: 2023/4826
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

On a site visit with the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee to Bethnal Green custody suite to hear from Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers about the Project ADDER trial we heard that stop and search is like: ‘taking a bulldozer to an archaeological dig’. Are you concerned that rates of stop and search for drugs in Tower Hamlets, where Project ADDER is being trialled, are above the London average?

• Reference: 2023/4825
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3571 about stop and search outcomes at Notting Hill Carnival. Could you further provide an ethnicity breakdown for the data using the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) ethnicity categories of Asian, Black, Mixed, Other and White?

• Reference: 2023/4824
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3571 about stop and search outcomes by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at Notting Hill Carnival. Could you provide a map to indicate what areas of the Carnival each of the sectors in the provided answer corresponds to?

• Reference: 2023/4823
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3567 about the cost of policing the 2023 Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair. Could you provide the full costs for policing the DSEI arms fair 2023 as soon as they are available in answer to this question?

• Reference: 2023/4822
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

College of Policing guidance for policing protests is based on United Nations (UN) principles and states that: “If the force used is not reasonable and proportionate, the officer is open to criminal or misconduct proceedings. It may also constitute a violation of the human rights of the person against whom the force was used.” Can you share the guidance on use of force received by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers policing protest in London and are you confident that the human rights of people protesting are protected and that officers are not at risk of criminal or misconduct proceedings for...