• Reference: 2024/3234
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The volume of reported antisemitic hate crime offences in London continues to be higher than before the October 2023 attacks took place. How are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to reduce antisemitic hate crime offences experienced by London’s Jewish communities?

• Reference: 2024/3233
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Thank you for your answer to my colleague’s question 2024/1217 where you said: “the next Annual Equality Report is currently being drafted by my Equalities team and will be ready for publication in May 2024.” Can you provide an update on when this will be published?

• Reference: 2024/3232
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

You have previously said at a Mayor’s Question Time meeting in March 2023 that children being strip searched should be ‘exceptional’. Could you explain how you and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) define ‘exceptional circumstances’ in this instance?

• Reference: 2024/3231
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

At the Police and Crime Committee meeting on 17 July 2024 your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime said that it is important that there is a review of how the Public Order Act 2023 and its powers have been used by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and agreed with me that looking at the use of ‘illegal to conspire’ powers should be part of the review. When will you and the MPS review the use of the Public Order Act 2023 and other public order legislation such as the Public Order Act 1986?

• Reference: 2024/3230
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

After the publication of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report you said: “Those responsible must now be immediately held to account for their systematic dishonesty, corporate greed, institutional indifference and neglect.” Given the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says it will take them at least 12-18 months to review the report, are you satisfied that the MPS is doing all it can for timely justice?

• Reference: 2024/3229
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The August 2024 report, Annual victims’ survey 2023, from the Victims’ Commissioner, found that 45 per cent of disabled victims who reported a crime to the police were dissatisfied, and that 14 per cent would not report a crime to the police again. What steps are you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) taking to improve the experience of Disabled victims of crime?

• Reference: 2024/3228
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1653. Could you tell me what need was identified by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Disability Delivery Group (DDG) that led to them deciding that ‘a pilot where staff are trained to carry out dyslexia assessments’ would be a priority to help them tackle Disablism?

• Reference: 2024/3227
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Constituents have contacted me about delays they have experienced when waiting for their case to be heard due to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) internal drug checking service. Could you tell me: a) the average time taken for the MPS internal drug checking service to provide a response to Londoners since 2016, and b) what the current longest wait for a response from the internal drug checking service is?

• Reference: 2024/3226
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

I've been contacted by a constituent who was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and as a result had their belongings confiscated for more than a year. Could you tell me: a) what the proper process is for the MPS returning people’s property to them and in what time frame this is supposed to happen in, and b) how many people have had their personal items and property held by the MPS for more than 12 months since 2016?

• Reference: 2024/3225
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

What was the cost of policing the Hackney Carnival on 22 September 2024? Could you break this down by: a) police officer shifts, b) police staff shifts, c) number of police officers, d) opportunity costs, e) overtime costs, f) non-pay costs, and g) costs recovered from event organisers?