Category Archives: Policing

Police and Crime update, November 2017

Dear all, An update on policing and crime from City Hall: You may have heard about  the  HMIC inspection report on the Met: : http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/publications/peel-police-efficiency-2017-metropolitan/. We will be following up on this in detail at a future meeting of the police committee. Some late MQ answers which are rather extraordinary: I followed this up at the Police Committee meeting yesterday, […]

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Dismore questions Camden and Islington Police borough merger evaluation

At City Hall’s Police and Crime Committee meeting, Andrew Dismore AM, questioned Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt and Deputy Mayor for Policing Sophie Linden about the Camden and Islington borough merger evaluation (video: https://vimeo.com/243113966) Mr Dismore said: ‘The merger of Camden and Islington boroughs police has created a number of problems, not the least in response times to emergency […]

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Dismore questions Police over rising moped crime

At City Hall’s Police and Crime Committee meeting, Andrew Dismore AM, questioned Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt and Deputy Mayor for Policing Sophie Linden about the moped crime wave. (Video: https://vimeo.com/243113943) Mr Dismore said: ‘Camden has the highest number of moped crimes this year, with over 4,000 between January and September. With Islington at over 3,500 too, that accounts […]

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Dismore questions Police over post Brexit security

At City Hall’s Police and Crime Committee meeting,Andrew Dismore AM, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt and Deputy Mayor for Policing Sophie Linden about  post Brexit security. (video https://vimeo.com/243113978 ) Mr Dismore said: ‘I had not intended to speak on the issue of Brexit and its impact on security and law enforcement, but I had to intervene after the bizarre […]

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