• Reference: 2025/0859
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) provided in answer to question 2023/3563 says that: “At the workshops, teaching staff, parents and young people shared their experiences of Safer Schools Officers”. Could you tell me how many young people attended these workshops?

• Reference: 2025/0858
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) provided in answer to question 2023/3563 says that: “the aims of a Safer School Partnership (SSP) are to; i) provide positive engagement to build trust and confidence, ii) improve safety and enhance safeguarding, iii) develop strategies which disrupt experiences of victimisation and future involvement in crime, and iv) deliver early intervention and diversion, promoting positive pathways for young people”. Could you tell me a) how the MPS measures progress against these aims, and b) what the documented outcomes of police in schools and SSOs are from 2010 to...

• Reference: 2025/0857
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Could you tell me a) how much money the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) received from the Home Office Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) in 2024, b) what this money was spent on, and c) any future plans the MPS has for this money?

• Reference: 2025/0856
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

It will be the second anniversary of the publication of the Baroness Casey Review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 21 March 2025. Can you confirm when the follow-up to the Casey Review will commence and who will be leading it?

• Reference: 2025/0855
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

It will be the second anniversary of the publication of the Baroness Casey Review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 21 March 2025. In 2022, following the publication of the Baroness Casey Review Interim Report, the Commissioner accepted there was systemic racial disparity in the MPS misconduct system. Could you tell me a) whether the levels of its disproportionate use of the misconduct system against Black and racially minoritised officers has reduced since this time, and b) has the underpinning culture Casey identified of using the misconduct process as a source...

• Reference: 2025/0854
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

To enable better scrutiny and understanding of proposed changes by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for example those proposed as part of the document, MOPAC Budget 2025-26: update on Metropolitan Police Service ‘tough choices’ published by the Mayor, will the MPS provide the London Assembly with a more granular breakdown of the budget for each of the branches that make up the business groups of the MPS to enable the Assembly to understand the budget impacts of potential changes to teams such as Royal Parks Police, Dogs Unit, Mounted branch and others?

• Reference: 2025/0853
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

At the 12 February 2025 London Assembly Police and Crime Committee meeting the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner said: “We have done some fresh work that we will publish soon, which shows in the London context the effect of stop and search on knife crime and violence is very significant. That looks at 15 to 18 years' data and shows a very significant correlation in terms of more stop and search and less violence.” Can you confirm when this will be published?

• Reference: 2025/0852
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1664. The Committee has not yet received a summary of this evaluation of the results of this pilot. When will the results of this become publicly available?

• Reference: 2025/0851
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter was published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and says: “if we allow its contentious nature and the concerns associated with it to force us into doing less of it, then only the criminals win.” How can Londoners have confidence that stop and search is used in a targeted way and not as a tickbox exercise with no meaningful accountability for its misuse?

• Reference: 2025/0850
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Stop and Search Charter was published on 27 February 2025 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). In the year to 31 March 2024, more than twice as many Black children (365) were strip searched in police custody as white children (154). What will the Stop and Search Charter and the MPS do to address the sensitivities of a policing tactic that appears to target vulnerable Black children?