• Reference: 2019/14508
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Barking and Dagenham Council’s response to the fire at De Pass Gardens was commendable. 30 minutes after the initial reports, the Council’s emergency support team was on location, within 2 hours, a rescue-rest centre had been set up and by midnight, the Council had secured a bed in the Borough for every resident who needed it. With the help from Go-Ahead busses and the council’s own passenger transport services, residents were taken to where they needed to be. Will you be ensuring that the good practice shown by Barking and Dagenham Council on the day of the incident can be...

• Reference: 2019/14507
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

In answer to my question 2018/5303 regarding how many female Metropolitan Police Service officers reported being sexually harassed by colleagues, you advised that “due to the way that these allegations are currently collated there is no reasonable way that this level of information can be extracted practicably”. A Unison Survey in 2018 revealed one in five police officers had received a sexually explicit email or text from a colleague. Do you feel that being able to identify how many reported cases of sexual harassment by a colleague were recorded each year would help with being able to assess whether the...

• Reference: 2019/14506
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How many police officers has the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham lost since 2010?

• Reference: 2019/14505
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How many police officers has the London Borough of Newham lost since 2010?

• Reference: 2019/14504
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How many police officers has the London Borough of Tower Hamlets lost since 2010?

• Reference: 2019/14503
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

The Metropolitan Police Service’s Business Plan aimed to ‘deliver Modern Slavery training to about 1,200 new recruits a year and 600 Detectives’ by the end of Quarter 4 2018/19.. ( https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/met/about-us/me…) Has this training now been delivered to this number of staff?

• Reference: 2019/14502
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How many potential victims of modern-day slavery did the Metropolitan Police Service refer to the National Referral Mechanism in 2018?

• Reference: 2019/14501
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How many arrests have the Metropolitan Police Service made under modern slavery charges in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively?

• Reference: 2019/14500
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

In 2018, the MPS and CPS jointly reviewed 600 RASSO (Rape and Serious Sexual Offences) cases. I understand that the MPS drafted in 120 officers to assist in this process and mitigate against the risk of creating a backlog in rape cases ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42873618). Nonetheless, did these reviews have any impact on creating a backlog of rape and sexual offences cases?

• Reference: 2019/14499
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

What role has MOPAC had in overseeing the roll-out of Community Contact Sessions as outlined in MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service’s Public Access Strategy and what is MOPAC’s assessment of the way Community Contact Sessions are working?