• Reference: 2025/2200
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has developed a catalogue of gang-related music known as Operation Domain and documents lyrics which are linked to serious violence offences. Could you tell me: a) what are the criteria on which officers determine whether lyrics are ‘linked to serious violence’, and b) if there is a process for the removal of content from the catalogue and what that process entails?

• Reference: 2025/2199
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Project Insight training programme was launched in 2021 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to “identify and train MPS personnel who have expertise in urban street gangs and slang.” Could you tell me: a) what training officers receive as part of the programme, b) specifically what training they receive that enables them to decode/translate and interpret slang and music using this slang, c) how long the training last and how is the expertise of the trained officers measured, d) who is the training delivered by and what credentials do trainers have, e) if there is any independent evaluation conducted...

• Reference: 2025/2198
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) undertake any monitoring of the effectiveness of Project Alpha. If so, what metrics does it use and what is the most recent outcome of this metrics in terms of measuring the effectiveness of Project Alpha?

• Reference: 2025/2197
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Could you: a) share with me the latest equality impact assessment for Project Alpha produced by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and b) share any other steps taken to monitor the impact of the project on racialised communities?

• Reference: 2025/2196
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Project Alpha published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) states that: “a significant proportion of the material removed under the project does fall into the category of drill music.” Could you tell me: a) what proportion of the material falls into the category of drill, and b) what other categories material removed under the project fall into, and in what proportion?

• Reference: 2025/2195
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Project Alpha published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) states that: “Once the material is removed from the online space, a copy is retained by the project as criminal intelligence if the content is music related. Content can provide intelligence relating to subject association, membership of gangs, knowledge of previous crimes and historic or current feuds between rival gangs.” Could you tell me: a) if this content used to inform risk assessments of individuals, or to identify individuals for operational purposes, and if so, how, and b) if it is used to justify...

• Reference: 2025/2194
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Project Alpha published by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) states that: “Online Harm Referral Team will record data relating to those individuals identified as involved in inciting serious youth violence.” It later states that: “subjects whose personal data is processed will be associated with gangs, gang offending or serious youth violence.” Could you tell me: a) how officers in the Online Harm Referral Team (OHRT) identify individuals as involved in inciting serious youth violence for the purpose of data collection, b) what metrics do they use, and c) what training do they receive?

• Reference: 2025/2193
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1657 in which you said the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was developing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) relating to the work of the Online Harm Referral Team (OHRT), which would support the OHRT in its referrals to online platforms. Could you: a) share this SOP with me if it has been finished, and b) tell me if the SOP sets out criteria for when to make a referral, and if so, what the criteria are?

• Reference: 2025/2192
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Would you be able to confirm if Vishwa Hindu Parishad (UK) are currently involved in the Diwali in London (DiL) Community Advisory Group (CAG)?

• Reference: 2025/2191
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for the response letter from Adrian Scott, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) following Dan Worsley’s attendance at the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee on 7 January 2025. In the letter a response is provided regarding the Asset Recovery and Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). It says that: “As a result, the income can only be used to fund asset recovery work or to fund local crime fighting priorities.” Can you share with me: a) how much ARIS funding went into funding ‘asset recovery work’, and b) how much went into funding ‘local crime...