• Reference: 2020/0983
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Can you confirm that the organisations the Met uses for digital forensic services are all compliant with digital forensic standards?

• Reference: 2020/0982
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

The Forensic Science Regulator’s report of 25 February stated that, nationally, over 1,100 DNA profiles on the National DNA Database have been contaminated by police officers and staff and are having to be removed. How are you working with the Met to ensure that contamination of evidence in the Met is minimised?

• Reference: 2020/0981
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

How many sexual offences trained officers will be recruited as part of the planned officer uplift? And, how many of these will be placed in the Child Abuse and Sexual Offence command?

• Reference: 2020/0980
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

You mention in your answer to question no: 2019/20178 that you “regularly scrutinise stop and search performance with the Commissioner to ensure officers conduct ethical and proportionate searches.” Please provide more detail on how you undertake this monitoring with the Commissioner? What concerns have you raised?

• Reference: 2020/0979
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Please provide details on how often Metropolitan Police officers undertake unconscious bias training and what the training involves?

• Reference: 2020/0978
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

For the year 2019 can you please provide data on how many times a taser was used by Met officers, broken down by type of use?

• Reference: 2020/0977
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Please provide details of how much you expect the associated costs to be should MOPAC be successful in receiving the full amount requested through the National Taser Fund?

• Reference: 2020/0976
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Please provide information on how much MOPAC has bid for under the National Taser Fund and approximately how many tasers this will fund should they receive the full bid?

• Reference: 2020/0975
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

With Sonnenkrieg Division being added to the list of proscribed neo-Nazi groups in the UK in recent weeks, and other groups such as the System Resistance Network being recognised as aliases of already banned far-right groups; what action and monitoring is being undertaken to ensure that no Met officers or staff are members of such groups or organisations?

• Reference: 2020/0974
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Following the deeply concerning news that a Met police officer was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a banned organisation linked with right-wing terrorism, how will you be working with the Met to ensure that no other police officer or member of staff is part of any proscribed far-right group or organisation?