The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee will tomorrow question Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Stephen Greenhalgh and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe.

Questions to the Deputy Mayor and Commissioner will be informed by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) monthly report to the committee and will include the following subjects:

• Policing and security for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Stop and Search
• Police corruption
• MPS retention of photographs of individuals not charged
• HMIC report on MPS Policing in Austerity
• Extradition Act 2003
• MPS performance and sanction detection rates

The Police and Crime Committee meeting will take place on Thursday, 19 July 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. Full agenda papers.
2. 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.
3. The Police and Crime Committee is established under s32 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
4. The Chair of the Police and Crime Committee, Joanne McCartney AM, is available for interview.
5. As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.