Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on the recent boastful statement by the Mayor of London claiming a ‘dramatic’ increase in London’s A&Es sharing information with the police to help reduce violence across the capital, said:
“For many years there has been powerful evidence that anonymous data collected by A&Es leads to more intelligent and effective policing helping to make our communities safer.
“While any increase in A&Es sharing data should be welcomed we cannot overlook the basic fact that the Mayor has been incredibly complacent on this issue over many years. The Mayor even took a year to simply answer a question on this issue.”
“Far from boasting about his record the Mayor should be apologising to Londoners that under his watch more than a third of hospitals are still not sharing data with the police.”