Assembly questions Deputy Met Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime

The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee will tomorrow question Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Stephen Greenhalgh.

Questions to will be informed by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) monthly report to the committee: http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s20519/4a%20-%20Appendix%20to%20Question%20and%20Answer%20Ses.pdf

Questions will include the following subjects:

• Leveson report
• Community safety funding
• Domestic violence
• Recent sudden increase in reported rapes
• Project Daedalus[1]
• Taser borough roll out
• Operation Condor – crackdown on licensed premises



The Police and Crime Committee meeting will take place on Thursday, 20 December from 10am in the Chamber at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1). Media and members of the public are invited to attend.

The meeting can also be viewed via webcast.

Notes to editors:

1. Project Daedalus established a programme aimed at cutting youth re-offending.
2. Full agenda papers.
3. The Police and Crime Committee is responsible for examining the activities of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and investigating matters it considers to be of importance to policing and crime reduction in London.
4. The Police and Crime Committee is established under s32 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
5. The Chair of the Police and Crime Committee, Joanne McCartney AM, is available for interview, see contact details below.
6. As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.