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MOPAC/MPS residential portfolio (1)

  • Reference: 2014/3195
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
Please provide a list, broken down by borough, of all residential units the Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) intend to sell across London in the 2013-16 period?

Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act

  • Reference: 2014/3194
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
Under the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 the Metropolitan Police can obtain individuals' email records as well as their telecommunication data. Please could you list the categories of crime where you would not support the police's use of these powers?

Use of Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act to obtain journalists email records

  • Reference: 2014/3193
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
Under the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 the Metropolitan Police can obtain journalists’ email records. Please could you confirm if you would support the Metropolitan Police’s use of the these powers in order to obtain journalists email records in cases other than terrorism? If so, please could you list the types of crimes where you would support the use of these powers.

MOPAC oversight of Metropolitan Police Service requests for telephone records under RIPA

  • Reference: 2014/3192
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
In 2013 the Metropolitan Police made 94,778 authorisations or notices for communications data. What oversight does the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime has over the Metropolitan Police's requests for telephone records under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000?

Protection of journalists' sources

  • Reference: 2014/3191
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
Are you concerned that the Metropolitan Police obtained the telephone records of a journalist without his consent, and without any warrant or other court order, despite laws which entitle journalists to keep their sources confidential?

London Policing Ethics Panel

  • Reference: 2014/3190
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester has announced the composition of his Independent Ethics Committee which includes: an organisational consultant, a former assistant chief constable, a former editor of the Manchester Evening News, an independent Holocaust education and commemoration consultant, the lead for ethics and law at Manchester Medical School, a criminal defence solicitor, HM Assistant Chief Inspector of Probation, a healthcare professional, a businessman, a pupil referral unit manager, a lecturer in criminology, a chief executive of a Housing Association and the chair of a group of black and minority ethnic housing associations. The chair of the...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner's apology to protestors sprayed with CS gas

  • Reference: 2014/3189
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
An Independent Police Complaints Commission Assessment of Investigation Appeal found the Metropolitan Police "failed to conduct a fair and proportionate investigation" into the use of CS Spray against three UK Uncut protestors on 30th January 2011. This was the second appeal made to the IPCC after the first found the Metropolitan Police's report to be "brief, poor and reveals very little evidence that sufficient enquiries have been made." Following the formal apology by the Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner to the three UK Uncut protestors - which acknowledged "that the delay in reaching this outcome exacerbated" their distress, and the payment...

Integrity of Metropolitan Police Service crime data - Unrecorded sexual offences

  • Reference: 2014/3188
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
The recent Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary inspection of the Metropolitan Police Service's Crime data integrity identified that of the 106 sexual offences that should have been recorded, 65 were. The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, Vera Baird, responded to a similar finding by confirming Northumbria police will reinvestigate the cases wrongly classified, officers involved in the identified cases have been moved onto other duties and all victims will be contacted by professionally-trained officers. Please can you confirm that the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime will respond to the 41 wrongly classified cases of...

Metropolitan Police Service frontline capacity

  • Reference: 2014/3187
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
Your Deputy Mayor for Police and Crime agreed in a letter to the Police and Crime Committee Chair, 14 May 2013, to ensure that data of the number of staff, PCSOs and police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service using the Operational Policing Measure would be regularly provided. The Police and Crime Committee recommended in its response to the Police and Crime Plan, that MOPAC should ensure that the MPS honour its commitment to provide regular Operational Policing Measure analysis to the Assembly. In response to my question in June 2013, MQ 2013/1895 you stated "MOPAC is currently undertaking a...

Crystal Palace business crime

  • Reference: 2014/3186
  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2014
A dozen traders in Crystal Palace suffered a wave of break-ins over a fortnight in August, and were frustrated by what they perceived to be a lack of joined-up policing because the town centre spans three boroughs. There also appears to have been a lack of communication with business owners in the area, including some of those affected, about steps the police were taking to tackle the problem. Will you raise this issue with borough commanders and review the cross-borough arrangements for this town centre?
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