• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Navin Shah AM: My question is to the Mayor. It is about hate crime issues. How effectively are you tackling hate crime and what support are you providing to victims and wider communities so that they have reassurance as well as the confidence to report such incidents?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, this is a question for you on terrorism. The past few years have seen the number of arrests for terrorism double compared to the three years before that. What impact will your Countering Violent Extremism Programme have on safeguarding vulnerable people and stopping the spread of extremist ideology?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Len Duvall AM: In 2017, homicides concerning domestic abuse were at eight. It may be nine. This year to date, there have been around 19. I have not included any murders that occurred at the weekend. Can you just update us about what the MPS is doing to target the most dangerous perpetrators? This is to the Commissioner rather than to the Mayor, this question.

• 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?