• Reference: 2024/0566
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3563 where you shared the Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) report which mentions a “new performance framework for Safer Schools Officers focused on diversion/intervention activities.” Could you tell me: a) what progress the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has made in setting up the Strategic Safer School (youth) Partnership mentioned in the report, b) when it will launch, and c) an update on the diversion/intervention activities under consideration?

• Reference: 2024/0565
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

How many reports of gendered abuse or violence against women cycling were reported to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 2023, and how many of these reports resulted in charges/prosecutions?

• Reference: 2024/0564
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

The January 2024 report, What stops women cycling in London?, from the London Cycling Campaign Women’s Network, calls on the Mayor, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and Transport for London (TfL) to address gendered abuse and violence towards women cycling. Could you tell me how you, the MPS and TfL will act on the recommendations of this report?

• Reference: 2024/0563
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

The Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire recently said that the Home Office is investing in new technology that will: “enable people to be scanned for knives as they walk down high streets” using ordinary cameras combined with "electromagnetic infrared waves and a unique computer algorithm" to detect weapons hidden beneath clothing. What discussions has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) had with the Home Office about this technology and has the MPS conducted any analysis of the privacy impact this technology would have?

• Reference: 2024/0562
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4829. Since the launch of Project ADDER by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), could you tell me: a) how rates of drug related deaths in the Project ADDER area have changed, and b) how rates of drug related hospitalisations in the Project ADDER area have changed?

• Reference: 2024/0561
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4829. Could you tell me, as part of Project ADDER by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS): a) how many people were in treatment at the start and end of each of the years of Project ADDER, b) how many safeguarding referrals have been made since the Project began, and c) how many of these were prosecuted?

• Reference: 2024/0560
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Since the launch of Project ADDER by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), could you tell me: a) how many community resolutions were issued for drugs and what, if any, conditions were attached, b) how many cautions were issued for drugs and what conditions, if any, were attached, and c) how many Community Protection Notices (CPN) or Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) have been issued?

• Reference: 2024/0559
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Since the launch of Project ADDER by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), could you tell me: a) how many people have been identified as in need of treatment by the MPS, b) how many people have been referred for treatment and in what circumstances, e.g. referrals where there was no offence and referrals where there were offences, broken down by ethnicity, and c) how many referrals have been made via Drug Testing in Custody (DToA)?

• Reference: 2024/0558
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Could you tell me how Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Project ADDER officers signpost concerns and offer safeguarding measures to Londoners?

• Reference: 2024/0557
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) considered the privacy implications of using drones in London? Could you provide any Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) or Privacy Impact Assessments the MPS has conducted on the use of drones and provide any published guidance on their use?