• Reference: 2025/0853
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

At the 12 February 2025 London Assembly Police and Crime Committee meeting the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner said: “We have done some fresh work that we will publish soon, which shows in the London context the effect of stop and search on knife crime and violence is very significant. That looks at 15 to 18 years' data and shows a very significant correlation in terms of more stop and search and less violence.” Can you confirm when this will be published?

• Reference: 2025/0852
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1664. The Committee has not yet received a summary of this evaluation of the results of this pilot. When will the results of this become publicly available?

• Reference: 2025/0851
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter was published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and says: “if we allow its contentious nature and the concerns associated with it to force us into doing less of it, then only the criminals win.” How can Londoners have confidence that stop and search is used in a targeted way and not as a tickbox exercise with no meaningful accountability for its misuse?

• Reference: 2025/0850
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter was published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). In the year to 31 March 2024, more than twice as many Black children (365) were strip searched in police custody as white children (154). What will the Stop and Search Charter and the MPS do to address the sensitivities of a policing tactic that appears to target vulnerable Black children?

• Reference: 2025/0849
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says: “Officers should be held accountable for their actions and the MPS should make sure there are sanctions for poor performance and stricter enforcement of sanctions for misconduct, these should depend on how many years they have in the MPS and also repeat offences.” Could you tell me a) if new sanctions will be introduced for the ‘poor performance’ of officers regarding stop and search, and b) will the MPS publish a framework for the ‘stricter enforcement of sanctions for misconduct’ from stop and...

• Reference: 2025/0848
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) makes several references to involving the community in practises such as supervision, the complaints process, and the creation of educational content. Does the MPS plan to pay members of the community for their time when asking them to assist the MPS in this way?

• Reference: 2025/0847
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

One of the recommendations of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report is: “All police officers and police staff should be obliged to register in confidence with the Chief Officer of their police force, at either their point of recruitment to the police force or at any point subsequent to their recruitment, their membership of any organisation, including the Freemasons, which might call their impartiality into question or give rise to the perception of a conflict of loyalties.” Since the publication of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report what progress has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) made on this recommendation?

• Reference: 2025/0846
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Following the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign protest that took place on 18 January 2025 several of those who were arrested after the protests were given bail conditions by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Some of those arrested were given a condition to ‘not to take part in any Palestinian Solidarity Campaign events in London’. Could you tell me: a) what constitutes ‘taking part’, b) what constitutes an ‘event’, and c) what constitutes ‘in London’ (for example, would an online event that is hosted in London but attended by people from anywhere be included)?

• Reference: 2025/0845
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Following the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign protest that took place on 18 January 2025, several of those who were arrested after the protests were given bail conditions by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The bail conditions related to those arrests varied considerably. Could you tell me what guidance the MPS uses for setting bail conditions and if that guidance can be shared publicly?

• Reference: 2025/0844
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to question 2023/4418. In your answer to me on 15 March 2024 you said ‘that high-level findings of the review will be published in due course’. Can you tell me when these high-level findings will be published?