• Reference: 2022/2581
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The decision to prosecute individuals involved in the Sarah Everard vigil was made on the same day that the High Court ruled the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) acted illegally in its policing of this event. Considering this ruling, how did the MPS come to the conclusion that these prosecutions were in the public interest?

• Reference: 2022/2580
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

In answer to my question 2022/0501 you provided data which showed that 99 young people aged 10-17 were subject to a More Thorough Searches with Intimate Parts Exposed (MTIP) search, in 2021. Could you provide summary details about where these searches took place, whether indoors or outdoors, in an institution like a school, a religious building or a public place, such as a shopping centre or park?

• Reference: 2022/2579
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) recently told Assembly Members that it is creating a: “child centric stop and search review panel involving the community and partner agencies to scrutinise search activity, review body worn video, critically evaluate whether there has been a 'safeguarding first' approach and highlight and raise any identified adultification.” Could you tell me: a) when this child centric stop and search review panel will be up and running, b) how often this panel will meet, and c) how many instances of stop and search it is planning to review?

• Reference: 2022/2578
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Could you tell me the number of collisions which the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Serious Collision Investigation Unit investigated in 2021, broken down by CRASH/COPA severity type categories, which are Fatal, Very Serious, Moderately Serious, Less Serious, and Slight?

• Reference: 2022/2577
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The Government has introduced welcome new powers allowing Transport for London (TfL) and London boroughs to fine motorists who infringe on cycle lanes and cycle tracks, in the same way that they currently do for bus lanes and yellow box junctions. How will this impact the work of roads policing conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)?

• Reference: 2022/2576
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The road danger reduction dashboard from Transport for London (TfL) visualises the most recently validated collision figures to enable users to easily understand the data. The dashboard’s borough casualty map identifies the mode of travel of the victim, it doesn’t identify what type of vehicle collided with them. Do you have plans to add this data to the road danger reduction dashboard so Londoners can better understand how these collisions occur?

• Reference: 2022/2575
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Could you report the most recent figures for numbers of casualties relating to hit and runs in London in 2020, broken down by: a) road user mode of both parties, b) severity type by CRASH/COPA categories: Fatal, Very Serious, Moderately Serious, Less Serious, and Slight, c) borough, and d) whether there was a prosecution?

• Reference: 2022/2574
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) conducted a health and safety review of the heavy police uniform and equipment worn by officers who cycle regularly as part of their job? Given the high temperatures that are now experienced regularly in London, are there any plans to adapt the uniform, for example by allowing shorts to be worn?

• Reference: 2022/2573
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Campaigners have highlighted that the candidates and panel of interviewers for the next Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis were all white. Are you concerned that this may hamper rebuilding trust and confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and what steps are you taking to hear the voices of Black, Asian and other minority ethnic Londoners in the recruitment process?

• Reference: 2022/2572
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The GLA recently accepted recommendations about the diversity of interview panels proposed in a February 2022 report, Independent Review of Ethnic Minority experiences at GLA, by The Equal Group. Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have a similar rule or policy about the diversity of interview panels?