• Reference: 2019/20697
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

With a programme of police station closures underway across London please advise where the thousands of new officers you are expecting to recruit to the Met are going to be based?

• Reference: 2019/20696
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It has been claimed that predictive mapping programs and algorithms reflect and re-enforce existing patterns of discrimination, which will often mean officers will be directed to attend already over-policed areas. Will you consider using your Ethics Panel to review and advise on any further use of such programs?

• Reference: 2019/20695
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Do you accept that a reliance on such predictive mapping programs and algorithms can lead to a significant risk of so-called ‘automation bias’, where police officers are deferring key decisions to this technology?

• Reference: 2019/20694
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It has been claimed that police forces across the UK are not fully aware how predictive mapping programs work. What are you doing to ensure both the Met and the public understand how these predictive mapping programs and algorithms work?

• Reference: 2019/20693
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

A recent report by Liberty has named the Met as one of the police forces that uses, or plans to use, predictive mapping programs to predict crime. Please explain how these mapping programs work and how the algorithms are formulated to make decisions on where police should target their resources?

• Reference: 2019/20692
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

How many ambulances have been called to Met custody suites between 2016-2019? Please break this down by year.

• Reference: 2019/20691
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Are you content that agency staff used by companies operating on bus routes tendered by TfL receive the same level of inspection and enforcement of safety standards, such as those relating to length of hours worked and restrictions on the use of alcohol and drugs as apply to permanent employees of bus companies?

• Reference: 2019/20690
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Although I welcome initiatives to track down suspected criminals in the capital. I was disappointed to recently see a van with an electronic photo display of criminal suspects sitting idly on the pavement outside London Bridge Station with its engine running. Do you share my concern about the environmental impact of this, and what action will you take to ensure that the Met take into account the impact on the environment of their operations?

• Reference: 2019/20689
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

As part of the development of Queen’s Square in Croydon the local authority has set as part of its planning condition a requirement for the applicant to provide a Construction Logistics Plan (CLP), which covers the monitoring of airborne pollutants, noise and vehicle and non-road mobile machinery movements, with the information provided to the council and the local community in near real-time. Do you support the further adoption of such planning conditions on future large construction sites across London?

• Reference: 2019/20688
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Residents in New Cross and Lewisham remain concerned that the proposed extension of the Bakerloo Line could be placed at risk by planning applications including the application around the Sainsburys in New Cross. What assurances can be given that every step is being taken to safeguard the proposed route?