• Reference: 2025/2195
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Project Alpha published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) states that: “Once the material is removed from the online space, a copy is retained by the project as criminal intelligence if the content is music related. Content can provide intelligence relating to subject association, membership of gangs, knowledge of previous crimes and historic or current feuds between rival gangs.” Could you tell me: a) if this content used to inform risk assessments of individuals, or to identify individuals for operational purposes, and if so, how, and b) if it is used to justify...

• Reference: 2025/2194
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Project Alpha published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) states that: “Online Harm Referral Team will record data relating to those individuals identified as involved in inciting serious youth violence.” It later states that: “subjects whose personal data is processed will be associated with gangs, gang offending or serious youth violence.” Could you tell me: a) how officers in the Online Harm Referral Team (OHRT) identify individuals as involved in inciting serious youth violence for the purpose of data collection, b) what metrics do they use, and c) what training do they receive?

• Reference: 2025/2193
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1657 in which you said the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was developing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) relating to the work of the Online Harm Referral Team (OHRT), which would support the OHRT in its referrals to online platforms. Could you: a) share this SOP with me if it has been finished, and b) tell me if the SOP sets out criteria for when to make a referral, and if so, what the criteria are?

• Reference: 2025/2192
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Would you be able to confirm if Vishwa Hindu Parishad (UK) are currently involved in the Diwali in London (DiL) Community Advisory Group (CAG)?

• Reference: 2025/2191
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for the response letter from Adrian Scott, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) following Dan Worsley’s attendance at the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee on 7 January 2025. In the letter a response is provided regarding the Asset Recovery and Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). It says that: “As a result, the income can only be used to fund asset recovery work or to fund local crime fighting priorities.” Can you share with me: a) how much ARIS funding went into funding ‘asset recovery work’, and b) how much went into funding ‘local crime...

• Reference: 2025/2190
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

I’ve spoken to London councillors who have told me that it was previously possible for London Borough councils to access funds raised via the Asset Recovery and Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Could you tell me if this was previously the case and if so, why this has changed?

• Reference: 2025/2189
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for the response letter from Adrian Scott, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) following Dan Worsley’s attendance at the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee on 7 January 2025. In the letter a response is provided regarding the Asset Recovery and Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). It says that: “the MPS’ use of ARIS income is governed through the POCA Board.” Could you tell me: a) what the role of this board is, and b) who is on this board?

• Reference: 2025/2188
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your response to my question 2022/0052. Since your answer to this question could you tell me: a) if the training Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers and staff have received around illegal evictions has changed, b) how many people from the MPS have been trained and when, and c) what data is collected in connection with such evictions?

• Reference: 2025/2187
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

West Midlands Police recently launched a new animal welfare scheme to help protect the police dogs who work for them. What schemes does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have in place to protect the welfare of its working dogs and other working animals?

• Reference: 2025/2186
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In May 2025 the London Drugs Commission published its report, The Cannabis Conundrum: a way forward for London. What conversations have you and MOPAC had with the Government and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about the report and its recommendations?