""For years, the Police and Crime Committee has called for updates on when the Met's Estates Strategy will be ready to be scrutinised," she said. "The Police and Crime Committee has constantly been told that it will be available in due course, yet we are still to see the draft document." She added: "It appears we have been left in the dark over a key strategic document, despite having asked for it over a number of years, whilst members of the London Policing Board, who are not elected officials, have been given sight.""
""beyond outraged". "The democratic police scrutiny body has been completely bypassed on such an important document... it makes a mockery of democratic"
The Met Police shared details of its long-awaited Estates Strategy with the London Policing Board, whose members are appointed by the mayor, before the Police and Crime Committee saw the draft. The committee had repeatedly requested updates and remains without sight of the document, prompting chair Marina Ahmad to summon the mayor to appear and demand scrutiny. The strategy, still in development according to the mayor's office, outlines plans for police buildings including previously closed stations, has been delayed for years, and is now promised before Christmas. Conservative deputy chair Susan Hall expressed strong outrage at the bypassing of democratic scrutiny.
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