Metropolitan Police Authority: October Meeting

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27 October 2009

The October meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority will be held in the Chamber, City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday 29 October 2009.

The meeting is open to members of the public and press, and everyone is welcome to attend. There is access for disabled people and induction loops are available.

Boris Johnson, MPA Chair, and Kit Malthouse, MPA Vice Chair, will give an oral update on any key issues or events since the last Authority meeting. Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson will present a report on policing performance and respond to questions from Authority members.

The MPA Chief Executive has received the following motion from MPA members: proposed by Jenny Jones and seconded by Joanne McCartney.

Human Trafficking Team - motion to the MPA

1. This Authority calls on the Metropolitan Police Service to commit to maintaining the specialist human trafficking team in view of its important role as the only specialist operational anti-trafficking team in the country and London's position as a major gateway for human trafficking into the UK. Further, the international consensus is that a specialist team represents best practice in combating trafficking.
2. At minimum this commitment should be to maintain the team until after the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. The Met cannot afford to lose the expertise or disrupt the intelligence work of the specialist team at this time, given the prediction of a substantial increase in the number of people trafficked into London over the next three years as a result of the Games.

A response by the Chief Executive to the motion will be provided at the meeting and noted in the minutes.

MPA member Jenny Jones has also submitted a motion on ‘Pilot armed patrols’ as an urgent item:

Notes to editors

1. The full Authority committee papers are available on the MPA website at: www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/mpa/2009/091029/

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