• Reference: 2023/3579
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

In the foreword to the July 2023 plan, A New Met for London 2023-25, published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), it says that the plan is: “the product of more than 10,000 interactions with Londoners, our people, and partners from across the city.” Are these interactions recorded anywhere and could these interactions be shared publicly?

• Reference: 2023/3578
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Trees have recently been cut down on MOPAC land at Fresh Wharf Estate in Barking, near to the River Roding. What was the reason for these trees being felled and how does this fit in with your aims to increase tree cover in London by ten per cent by 2050?

• Reference: 2023/3577
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

On 10 July 2023 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) sent a letter to schools in Bromley saying that no young people will be allowed entry into The Glades shopping centre in Bromley unless accompanied by an adult. Is it appropriate for the MPS to be denying unaccompanied children access to this space, especially during the summer?

• Reference: 2023/3576
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

When travelling to the London Book Fair in April 2023, Ernest Moret, the foreign rights manager of French publisher La Fabrique, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This was subsequently the subject of a report by the reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall KC. What steps is the MPS taking to ensure that counter terrorism powers are not used for public order reasons or to investigate protesters?

• Reference: 2023/3575
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How will you measure the outcomes of the use of the precision policing approach, both in terms of reducing violence and the experience of people profiled in this way, by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)?

• Reference: 2023/3574
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) mitigate the risks involved in potentially wrongly classifying people as dangerous as part of the precision policing approach to using crime data, and how will unconscious bias be accounted for in this data driven approach?

• Reference: 2023/3573
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What risks have the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and MOPAC identified around the implementation of the Connect IT system and how are they working to mitigate them?

• Reference: 2023/3572
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What learning has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) taken from West Midlands Police around how it implemented the Connect IT system?

• Reference: 2023/3571
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

I note that there was an increase in stop and searches at Notting Hill Carnival in 2023 compared to 2022. Could you provide a breakdown of the number of stop and searches at Notting Hill Carnival for 2022 and 2023, and the percentage of cases with a police outcome and the percentage of cases that had no further action for each year?

• Reference: 2023/3570
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

It is disappointing that I have not yet received a response to my question 2022/1844 which was asked more than a year ago. At the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee meeting on 5 July 2023, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said: “Stop and search is critical as an operational tactic. We tend to take over 400 weapons a month off the streets as a result of it.” Noting that the MPS said in a press release on 26 May 2023 it had seized 170 knives during its Operation Sceptre week of action alone, could you tell...