• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Joanne McCartney AM: My question is for the Commissioner because I raised this with the Mayor at the last Mayor’s Question Time. It is about the future challenges of disclosure, particularly with the onset of social media and the digital information that is out there. I particularly want to focus on concerns that have been raised with regards to survivors of rape and, it appears, different practices at various police forces on the extent to which they require disclosure of that digital information. I know the Mayor’s Victims Commissioner is extremely concerned about this and has written both to the...

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Florence Eshalomi AM: Mr Mayor, Commissioner, you have both talked about the Violence Reduction Unit, and the reality is, yes, we have seen a massive reduction and massive increase in knife crime across the capital this year. You both touched on the fatal stabbing in Southwark Park yesterday. There was also a double shooting, I am sure you are aware, quite close to Crystal Palace in my constituency. I welcome the news that you have set up the Violence Reduction Unit in terms of how we address and take a different approach to tackling violent crime, but do you really...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Andrew Dismore AM: Commissioner, the Mayor talked about Brexit in his remarks just now. With the Brexit negotiations deadline rapidly approaching, what would be the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the capital’s security and resilience, in your view?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Leonie Cooper AM: I would like to stay on the subject of resources, if I may. Before I turn to that, I just wanted to say something and to echo Assembly Member O’Connell. I meet regularly with Sally Benatar, who is the South West Basic Command Unit Commander, and with her predecessors, Richard Smith, Peter Laverick, Steve Wallace and so on. They will be absolutely fantastic, and I can see the work that is being done just in that area of transformation, let alone all the stuff around new technology and increased use of 101. The police are really stepping...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: Just very briefly, for the Commissioner, I may have misheard but I did ask a specific question about the £160 million announcement. I know there is not a lot of detail around it, but I would be interested in your observations.

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

David Kurten AM: I just want to follow from Assembly Member Arnold’s question about the link between children who are excluded from school, or people in general, and then the propensity to get involved in crime. I know, Commissioner, you said that correlation is not necessarily causation, but I wondered if the both of you have considered something that you did not mention that may be staring us in the face, which is that family breakdown and fatherlessness possibly is a cause for both of those things. In London among young people there is an epidemic of fatherlessness, and this...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, Commissioner. At a Police and Crime Committee (PCC) meeting at the beginning of September [2018], when we were discussing officer safety, you said that no officers had ever mentioned a desire to have spit guards. Since then, 5,500 responses to a MPS survey said that 95% of the officers were in support of the introduction of spit guards, which is a very big percentage, obviously. Do you trust the officers that are asking for these based on their experience and knowledge?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Jennette Arnold OBE AM: My question is really about the prevention aspect, and I was asking about young people excluded and the evidence that there has been and the number of reports that there have been in the papers. In fact, in April The Telegraph reported “School exclusions fuels rising youth crime”, and then in September 2018 there was an excellent report in The Times, “Exclusion from school drives rising gang crime” and a report there that said the Home Office conducted a report linking exclusions with involvement in drug gangs. It has not produced that report yet, so I...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Central to tackling crime is responding to 999 calls. In July [2018], 1,150 999 calls were diverted to police forces outside of London between the hours of 9.00pm in the evening and 6.00 am in the morning. To start off with I would like to ask Mr Mayor: do you feel it is acceptable for emergency calls in London to be handled by forces outside the capital?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. Mr Mayor, as you will be aware, victim satisfaction is going down. How will you be working with your Victims Commissioner to improve that situation?