• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Clarke, please? Anne Clarke AM: Good morning. Commissioner, I was really pleased to hear you hold up the actions in Barnet with ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ on the Grahame Park estate and I commend you for your work on that. I am wondering if you could comment. What we have been hearing this morning and what you are hearing throughout is the MPS has a job to rebuild trust and confidence with Londoners. ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ very much relies upon working with communities, working with the local council. How has the MPS worked to build...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Devenish, please? Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I would not normally want to criticise another Assembly Member, but I have to say I was honoured to be at the St Mary’s National Health Service site visit yesterday. Assembly Member (AM) [Caroline] Russell and I were clearly at a different visit. The point that was missed by AM Russell is the children who were injured by police dogs and police officers were those being arrested. That is the point and I think she may have missed that point. Anyway, I do not need a...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): The next speaker is Assembly Member Cooper. Keith Prince AM: Tony [Devenish AM] wants to come in as well. Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. It was very nice to accompany you in Tooting on the visit to look at the work of the VRU. I wondered if you could update us a bit on the work of the Unit since 2019 and what the impact has been. I have noticed knife crime has started to rise since the pandemic, but I also notice it has not gone back above pre-pandemic...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): The next questioner is Assembly Member Russell, please. Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to start by picking up on something I saw in the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) monthly report to the Police and Crime Committee. The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime [Sophie Linden] reported that she met with Redthread on 25 October [2023] to discuss, and I quote, “concerns re hospitalisation of children following the Met’s use of force”. I happened to be on a Health Committee visit to St...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Hall, please? Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, gentlemen. Can you tell me, Commissioner, how many police officers have been redeployed to different areas outside of their BCUs because of the recent protests?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Pidgeon please. Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Morning, Commissioner. Morning, Mr Mayor. I absolutely have heard the context that you are working in, but one of the biggest challenges you face is around child protection and safeguarding children. On 6 October [2023], His Majesty’s Inspectorate (HMICFRS) published two accelerated causes of concern from their ongoing inspection into the MPS’s handling of child sexual and criminal exploitation. HMICFRS only issues these notices when it discovers significant service failures or the risk to public safety. So, Commissioner, a year into your tenure, what have you...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you very much. We now come to the supplementary questions. Each group is allocated an amount of time that is proportional to their size. The first supplementary question is from Assembly Member Desai. Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, it has been over six months since the publication of the Casey Review. What progress has been made with the recommendations?

• Reference: 2023/4849
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 02 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): We now move on to today’s principal business, a question and answer session on policing and crime in London. Joining us here in the Chamber today are Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and Sir Mark Rowley [QPM], Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Welcome to the meeting. There will be a lead-off question from me as Chair to you both. Assembly Members will then put supplementary questions. Please could I ask Assembly Members to specify who they would like an answer from when they put their questions. I would ask the guests to be as...