• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. I would like to touch on protests, if I may, and in particular balancing the right to protest with the impact of those protests on the wider community and, for that matter, the welfare of the officers who are dealing with what can sometimes be quite tricky public order situations. Over the course of this summer, we saw a series of quite hate-filled protests, particularly directed at our Jewish community. I wonder about those sorts of antisemitic marches. What can be done to catch the people who are doing that - who, I would argue...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Sem Moema AM: Of the measures being brought in the [draft] Police and Crime Plan that we discussed yesterday at the PCC, which measures do you think or hope will make the most significant impact in addressing youth homicide, which still remains pretty high?

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Nicholas Rogers AM: Mr Mayor, back at July’s [2021] Mayor’s Question Time, I asked you what you/your Office/MOPAC was doing to combat LGBT domestic abuse, which is a serious and rising problem in our city. You said you would arrange for me to meet with someone from your team to explain the work that you were doing and, despite my best efforts, that meeting did not materialise. I submitted a written question in the September [2021] round of questions, asking for the same information and that question remains unanswered, despite chasing. Mr Mayor, I am a deeply reasonable person, but...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: My first question is to the Mayor and it is about violence against women and girls. The Government released its VAWG Strategy this summer. Do you think it was comprehensive enough in terms of preventing incidents and also to better serve victims, and if there were gaps, how will you be dealing with that in your forthcoming refreshed [VAWG] Strategy?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Siân Berry AM: Carrying on my colleague’s theme of targeting zero deaths, I want to turn to enforcement on the roads and the proactive policing support that there is for Vision Zero there. Commissioner, I am keen to understand how transparent you are on this road danger work. Looking at the publications from TfL, its last Roads Policing Enforcement Statistics Bulletin was with data for 2018/19 and was published over a year ago now in November 2020. Briefly, when will we see an update to this bulletin and will it have up-to-date data from the MPS?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Emma Best AM: I want to address violence against women and girls and start with asking some questions around domestic violence. In 2008, the number of instances of domestic violence in London was 109,835 and by 2016, that had fallen to 73,426. Mr Mayor, in each year of your Mayoralty, incidences of domestic violence in London have continued to rise and today, for the 12 months, it stands at 94,791 cases. Would you agree that domestic violence is an epidemic in London and the upwards trajectory of domestic violence under your Mayoralty is quite startling really, is it not?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to start with the Commissioner, if I may. Becoming a police officer does convey a certain set of powers, so we need to be certain that the people who are going to exercise those powers are people who are fit and proper to do that and are trained, but also do not hold attitudes that would lead them to use those powers in an inappropriate way. Unfortunately, it is one of the things that women are looking at particularly, but we have also seen previous examples. The [investigation into the] [Stephen] Port murders show...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Tony Devenish AM: I have three points, please. Firstly, we are almost at Christmas and I want to wish my local BCU Merry Christmas and thank them for all the work they have done during the year. They have been fantastic. On a far darker note, you will have seen the video online this week on Monday night during Hanukkah on Oxford Street, the antisemitism incident. Please make sure you catch these vile people as soon as possible. My third point and my question is, we had a very, very interesting meeting yesterday on the [draft] Police and Crime Plan...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Commissioner, we know that after serious concerns were raised by HMICFRS about a huge backlog in vetting and re-vetting of officers back in around 2018/19, progress has been made. But the Deputy Commissioner told me earlier this month that there are still around 100 officers whose up-to-date vetting status is in question. You accepted that vetting was not conducted correctly in the case of Wayne Couzens, but how can we be certain that you will swiftly implement the recommendations from Baroness Casey’s review and the current HMICFRS investigation into vetting when there have clearly been issues...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I would like to address my first question to the Mayor. What are you and MOPAC doing to ensure that Londoners have faith and confidence in the police?