• Reference: 2025/0670
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

In a letter dated 23 December 2024 from the Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Minister confirmed that shops and business are encouraged to send images they capture of criminals on CCTV to the police. These can then be searched against the police database using Retrospective Facial Recognition to try and identify the offender. Since the introduction of Retrospective Facial Recognition, how many requests has the Met Police received to identify an offender and how many offenders have been identified with this technology?

• Reference: 2025/0669
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

In your election manifesto, you promised you would work with international partners in the C40 cities network and businesses to explore the creation of a similar scheme, which would allow young people to study and undertake work experience overseas. What progress has been made on this commitment?

• Reference: 2025/0668
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Do you hold anonymised diversity data on those officers that have gone through the First Line Leaders Programme and those officers currently going through the programme?

• Reference: 2025/0667
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please provide more details about the First Line Leaders Programme. What is it about? How many officers are enrolled? How many have already gone through the programme? How many are you looking to go through the programme?

• Reference: 2025/0666
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Are you able to break down the number of people charged with the possession of a controlled drug by drug type? If so, please provide a breakdown by drug for each year from 2018 up to 2025.

• Reference: 2025/0665
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Has any member of staff of the Met police been subject to a ransomware attack? If so, please specify how many staff members of the Met Police have been targeted by ransomware in the last 5 years. Please break down the number by year.

• Reference: 2025/0664
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

The recent response from the Met Police dated 5 February 2025 to the Police & Crime Committee’s report on police investigations of serious injury collisions confirmed that the MPS has reviewed its guidance and training offered to police officers attending the scene of a collision and that new training programme is being delivered across frontline officers. Please provide details of this new training programme and how it differs from the old one?

• Reference: 2025/0663
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please provide the number of times a body-worn camera was not switched on during a Stop & Search. Please break this down by month for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, and also provide the percentage this represents of the total number of Stop & Searches for that month.

• Reference: 2025/0662
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

The Home Office announced a £200 million boost to transform neighbourhood policing. How much of that is earmarked for the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2025/0661
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

This month (February 2025) the new Independent Water Commission will launch a Call for Evidence to look at the management of the overall water system, regulatory reform, and the role of water companies, owners and investors. What will you be advocating for in your contribution to this Call for Evidence?