• Reference: 2025/4510
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

How many thefts reported online are then closed the same day? Please provide a yearly breakdown for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

• Reference: 2025/4509
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

How many crimes reported over the phone or online receive a positive outcome? Please give the percentage of positive outcomes and the types of outcomes over the past 5 years. Can this be broken down yearly?

• Reference: 2025/4508
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

How many crimes reported through the Telephone and Digital Investigation Unit are never investigated by a police officer?

• Reference: 2025/4507
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

User Satisfaction Surveys for the Metropolitan Police Service for telephone and online show a continued decline in satisfaction. The closure of front counters will push nearly 50,000 crimes a year reported at front counters onto other failing mechanisms. How will you ensure that victims are heard and their crimes are investigated by police?

• Reference: 2025/4506
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

What agency has been contracted or hired to facilitate the valuation and sale of Metropolitan Police Service buildings?

• Reference: 2025/4505
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Is the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee and your promise for more police officers on track for being broken in London?

• Reference: 2025/4504
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

The projected ‘growth’ of the Metropolitan Police Service includes reducing staffing from 33,013 (FTE) in March 2025 to 31,258 (FTE) by March 2026. When will Londoners get their promised 1,300 additional officers?

• Reference: 2025/4503
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

The ‘Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee’ resulted in the Metropolitan Police Service receiving £45,639,456 in funding for projected growth in 2025 to 2026 of 420 police officers and 50 Police Community Support Officers. Has this money been spent?

• Reference: 2025/4502
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

The ‘Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee’ has seen a net reduction in police officers and the number of PCSOs has stayed the same. Is the ‘Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee’ a shell game to give the illusion that there are more police officers, but the reality is that there are less than ever before?

• Reference: 2025/4501
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

As a result of breaking your manifesto promise to maintain a 24/7 counter in every borough, you have stated that we will have more officers in our communities. What has been the net increase in the number of officers in our communities from April 2025 to December 2025?