• Reference: 2025/0863
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

On 6 March 2025 the BBC reported that at least 33 people had been unwell after they took a substance they thought was heroin. It was also reported that Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers gave emergency first aid to a man with those actions likely saving his life. In light of this, will the MPS reconsider its answer to my question 2024/1881 and review its policy regarding officers carrying naloxone?

• Reference: 2025/0862
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In response to the Police and Crime Committee’s report on preventing violence and protecting young people the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said: “In spring, our Safer Schools Officers will transition to become Dedicated Ward Officers, strengthening our neighbourhood policing teams. The new model will maintain strong links with schools, whilst focusing on boosting police presence in the community and those places where people face the greatest risk, for example, in those transitional spaces, like the journey from home to school.” How many young people’s organisations have been consulted by the MPS regarding these changes?

• Reference: 2025/0861
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Ahead of the publication of the document “MOPAC Budget 2025-26: update on Metropolitan Police Service ‘tough choices’” did the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) complete a value for money assessment of Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) and police in schools?

• Reference: 2025/0860
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Could you share with me the business case the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) used to make the decision to increase the number of Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) and police in schools over the period from 2010 to 2020, where the numbers of SSOs nearly doubled, and what business case has been presented for the change in delivery?

• Reference: 2025/0859
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) provided in answer to question 2023/3563 says that: “At the workshops, teaching staff, parents and young people shared their experiences of Safer Schools Officers”. Could you tell me how many young people attended these workshops?

• Reference: 2025/0858
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) provided in answer to question 2023/3563 says that: “the aims of a Safer School Partnership (SSP) are to; i) provide positive engagement to build trust and confidence, ii) improve safety and enhance safeguarding, iii) develop strategies which disrupt experiences of victimisation and future involvement in crime, and iv) deliver early intervention and diversion, promoting positive pathways for young people”. Could you tell me a) how the MPS measures progress against these aims, and b) what the documented outcomes of police in schools and SSOs are from 2010 to...

• Reference: 2025/0857
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Could you tell me a) how much money the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) received from the Home Office Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) in 2024, b) what this money was spent on, and c) any future plans the MPS has for this money?

• Reference: 2025/0856
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

It will be the second anniversary of the publication of the Baroness Casey Review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 21 March 2025. Can you confirm when the follow-up to the Casey Review will commence and who will be leading it?

• Reference: 2025/0855
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

It will be the second anniversary of the publication of the Baroness Casey Review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 21 March 2025. In 2022, following the publication of the Baroness Casey Review Interim Report, the Commissioner accepted there was systemic racial disparity in the MPS misconduct system. Could you tell me a) whether the levels of its disproportionate use of the misconduct system against Black and racially minoritised officers has reduced since this time, and b) has the underpinning culture Casey identified of using the misconduct process as a source...

• Reference: 2025/0854
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

To enable better scrutiny and understanding of proposed changes by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for example those proposed as part of the document, MOPAC Budget 2025-26: update on Metropolitan Police Service ‘tough choices’ published by the Mayor, will the MPS provide the London Assembly with a more granular breakdown of the budget for each of the branches that make up the business groups of the MPS to enable the Assembly to understand the budget impacts of potential changes to teams such as Royal Parks Police, Dogs Unit, Mounted branch and others?