• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Garratt, please. Neil Garratt AM: Morning, Commissioner. Earlier this year, as part of last year’s budget setting process, you took the extraordinary step of submitting to the GLA two budgets, budget A and budget B. I do not believe anyone has ever done this before for any of the functional bodies. I am curious what your motive behind submitting two optional budgets to the GLA was. What was your motive for doing that and might we see a repeat in this coming budget cycle?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member McCartney. Joanne McCartney AM: Hello. I want to just pick up on some of those threads you have made, Commissioner, to my colleague Len Duvall and that is around when allegations of sexual misconduct or domestic violence are made against your own officers. The Casey Review found that a very high percentage of those allegations resulted in no further action. She talked about a boys’ club culture where fellow officers would protect other officers and that the assumption was that public complaints against an officer were tied to a false or malicious intent. I...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Duvall, please. Len Duvall (Deputy Chair): Let us turn to the issues of the [New] Met for London progress in terms of the reforms. That was published over a year ago. What has been accomplished so far and what is there still left to do? To the Commissioner.

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Order, please. We will do a slightly revised order just for the purposes of the smoothness of the debate. Assembly Member Clarke, you wished to ‑‑ Anne Clarke AM: Yes, thank you, Chair. I want to go back to Assembly Member Wilson’s question. Mark [Rowley QPM, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis], you put to the Assembly the legal framework in which you police, and where I am really concerned is I still get phone calls. I had a phone call the other day from a local woman who is very concerned that the way in...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. While I try to figure out the new order [of speakers], I would like to welcome to the public gallery students, teachers, and parents from the Home Education Group. I think you are based in Croydon, are you, or around there? Anyway, you are very, very welcome. On that basis, we should all now be particularly well behaved. I am going to ask Assembly Member Lord Bailey next, yes, do come in. Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Good morning to you both. Mayor, I want to go back to the Chris Kaba case. Two...

• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Wilson, please. Alex Wilson AM: Thank you, Chair. My questions will be to the Commissioner, if that is OK. Thank you. Briefly, as a follow up from the exchange between Assembly Member Hall and the Mayor, I think it is really, really important that the officers that are doing a very difficult job on the front line, keeping London safe, have the support of both the operational and political leadership of the MPS, and I think on this particular case you have been pretty strong, which is great. I appreciate that the full details...

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Garbett, please. Zoë Garbett AM: Good morning, Commissioner. I want to start by setting the context for some of my questions, which is around the policing of drugs and the drug trade. You may have seen that the Office for National Statistics published the recent death figures on 23 October, which showed a national increase of 11 per cent and in London 500 people dying from drug poisoning and drug misuse, which is five times higher than the number of people who have died from homicide in the same period and five...

• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Roberts, I think is next. Gareth Roberts AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. This is for the Commissioner. It is just you mentioned the Estates Strategy earlier, and I feel it will be remiss of me if I did not bring it up again, as I usually do. We have police stations which residents are wanting to be kept open, such as Wimbledon. We have parts of the estate which are currently absolutely surplus to requirements and are recognised as being such, such as Teddington Police Station. When can we expect to see...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Desai, please. Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. Commissioner, on 8 October, in his annual update on security threats, the Director General of MI5 said that “Russia and Iran are on a mission to generate sustained mayhem on British streets through arson, sabotage, and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.” What specific measures is the MPS taking to counter this evolving threat?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 07 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Hall, please. Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Chairman. Good morning, gentlemen. You have mentioned Chris Kaba, Commissioner, and that is what I want to ask questions on to start with today. My questions are to you, Mr Mayor. Chris Kaba was shot on 5 September in the evening. At what point were you given a full briefing?