• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you. I will ask a less discursive question, Mr Mayor. I certainly welcome the significant measures, any that are announced, of course, and I do not doubt your sincerity in addressing this critical issue. However, how will this Assembly and the Police and Crime Committee and others be able to judge your effectiveness in addressing this issue in, say, two years’ time?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Jennette Arnold OBE AM: Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, can I just make a quick comment before I ask my question? Can I just feed back from a meeting of my Independent Advisory Group (IAG) in Hackney because you mentioned Hackney earlier? I was there this week and let me just say this. At this IAG - and I have been a member now for 17 years - we have had some stuff in Hackney and all of us around that table totally endorsed our Borough Commander’s implementation of stop-and-search and activities under Operation Sceptre, which included knife sweeps...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, firstly, thank you very much for your very comprehensive answers and also what you told us in your opening statement. I want to ask you three specific questions, and my time is limited and so I ask you to be as brief as possible. You talked already about the public health-led approach on this. Can we know what you are thinking here? Could you put some flesh on it and give Londoners a vision of what this actually means in practice?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Commissioner, is the possession of cannabis a high-priority crime for you?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Susan Hall AM: To the Commissioner, what is the MPS going to do to stop forced marriages and how are you recording forced marriages in London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Commissioner, I am aware that the Mayor has just said we are not exactly like every other city or every other country. I accept that, but is it not time that we did learn the international lessons, such as the way of youth engagement in Iceland, where they have effectively turned it around? For example, 45% of young people regularly got drunk 15 years ago and that figure is now 5%. One of the things they have done is to combine love with a bit of enforcement. They have a curfew for young people. It is beyond...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Shaun Bailey AM: Welcome and hello, Mayor. Your Knife Crime Strategy is a good start. One of the things it is missing is more support for parents. Do you think there is anything else you could do around that? I will ask that of you and then of the Commissioner.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: You touched upon confidence within the communities earlier. This is a question for the Commissioner. I was with the Borough Commander in Croydon a few weeks ago. We had a public meeting in Norbury where they lost a young man through knife crime some weeks before, very well attended it was too. What are you asking your Borough Commanders to do regarding building trust with communities and perhaps disaffected youth in those boroughs.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: To the Mayor, your Police and Crime Plan states you will extend support for youth workers in A&E departments disproportionately impacted by knife crime injuries. When will youth workers be rolled out and to how many A&Es?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

David Kurten AM: I want to address this to the Commissioner, if I could. Following on from Assembly Member Dismore’s question earlier about the couple of cases that have happened this week where we have had innocent men being put through the court system because of the withholding of evidence, it has come to my attention that the same person was in charge of both cases. Is it correct that Detective Constable Mark Azariah was the person who was in charge of both cases? This is in the press. I do not know if you can answer that or not...