• Reference: 2025/3054
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

As part of the Met’s ‘Tough Choices’, there were a series of cuts identified by the Met including a reduction of mounted branch, dog units, forensic services and others as part of Tranche 1. What other cuts has the Met identified as part of Tranche 2?

• Reference: 2025/3053
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Did you order any St George’s Cross flags to be taken down in London this year?

• Reference: 2025/3052
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How much did your trip to Africa this year cost the Metropolitan Police Service for your close protection detail and associated support units?

• Reference: 2025/3051
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

At Notting Hill Carnival, 528 people were arrested, 4 people were stabbed, 18 people were arrested for sexual assaults and 55 officers were assaulted, one was bitten and another received a broken nose. Does this represent “The very best of London” as you suggested?

• Reference: 2025/3050
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Are there any savings in MOPAC, VRU or the GLA that have been identified that could have been cut rather than the closure of more police station front counters?

• Reference: 2025/3049
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

One of the concerns highlighted in the Jay Review was that there were insufficient licences for police officers’ access to systems such as the Police National Database (PND). How many licences did the Metropolitan Police Service have for PND in 2021 and how many does it have in 2025?

• Reference: 2025/3048
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Would you support a legal challenge to the housing of migrants at the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf?

• Reference: 2025/3047
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Please will you publish the list of ‘Mandatory Crimes’ that the police investigate as part of the Crime Assessment Principles?

• Reference: 2025/3046
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

What is your understanding of other efficiency savings that the Met explored before pursuing cuts to essential and frontline services?

• Reference: 2025/3045
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

On 6th August 2025, Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist stated: ‘We have made deliberate choices to protect neighbourhood policing, response policing and public protection, services… This has included growing our neighbourhood teams by over 500 officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) over the last two years. This year, we will move a further circa 500 officers into community crime fighting and town centre teams.’ Could you provide a list of the departments these officers have been moved from, and identify which teams or units have been shut down or reduced?