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The Met’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology (1)

  • Reference: 2020/0385
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
There are many concerns about the use of facial recognition technology. Please clarify that ‘people of interest’ will be included on Live Facial Recognition (LFR) ‘watchlists’ as well as those wanted for serious crimes? Please provide clear information on how these ‘watchlists’ will be compiled and the specific criteria for someone to be included on such a list, above and beyond the vague information currently published on this?

Police Driving Instructors (2)

  • Reference: 2020/0384
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Since the start of 2019 has the Met employed any agency workers as police driving instructors who are not registered with the DVSA as licenced instructors, which would go against the rules set out by the College of Policing?

Police Driving Instructors (1)

  • Reference: 2020/0383
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Please provide the number of agency workers used by the Met as driving instructors in 2019 and to date in 2020, broken down by month.

Cyber Crime Unit Work on One Coin Scam

  • Reference: 2020/0382
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Following on from your answer to 2019/20186, please provide more detail on the specific work the Met’s Cyber Crime Unit is undertaking to tackle the One Coin scam and protect those in London who have invested in the pyramid scheme?

Crime Rates on Public Transport (2)

  • Reference: 2020/0381
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Rates of theft have risen sharply on the London Underground network in the last year. Will you take the urgent action necessary to tackle this worrying trend?

Crime Rates on Public Transport (1)

  • Reference: 2020/0380
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Crime rates on London’s public transport network have increased year on year for the last five years. How are you ensuring people feel safe on London’s transport network?

Met Police Estates Programme (2)

  • Reference: 2020/0379
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Please provide a list of the police buildings that have been sold since you took office as Mayor of London, broken down by type and year/month of sale?

Met Police Estates Programme (1)

  • Reference: 2020/0378
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Will you be considering the outcome of the judicial review into your planned closure of Wimbledon police station when making a decision on the Met’s Estate Strategy and when will you give residents in Wimbledon a clear decision on the future of their local police station?

Rise in Homophobic Hate Crime in London

  • Reference: 2020/0377
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
With homophobic hate crimes in London increasing every year since 2015, how are you working to tackle this, and would you agree that homophobia should be considered an aggravated crime in line with racial and religious hate crimes?

Stop and Search Effectiveness

  • Reference: 2020/0376
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
Recent analysis by The Times has indicated that there is no correlation between the increased use of stop and search and a reduction in knife crime. Despite some boroughs seeing a reduction in knife crime, some boroughs which have seen a huge increase is the use of section 60 orders including Enfield and Camden have reported a rise in knife crime in the past year. As such, do you think the way in which stop and search is used in London should be reviewed?
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