First informal meeting of the Stop and Search Scrutiny panel to discuss the first draft of our Met Police Authority report on Stop and Search.

The first draft is a bit adrift (understatement). Everyone agreed it was strong and hard hitting with good recommendations – but the structure was appalling, the referencing non-existent, the context entirely missing, the statistics not up-to-date and there was a lot of academic sociological waffle about the issue.

So – a fair bit needing to be done to knock the report into shape. However well it is then put together, there will still be ructions as the basic tenet and thrust is still pretty critical – hopefully constructively so.

PS Emerge from lift on 7th floor of City Hall. The London Assembly member who I didn’t name earlier in my blog when describing them as someone ‘who could talk for Britain’ at an Assembly press lunch, was entering the lift as I emerged. I think they may have twigged – for as I walked away from the lift the word ‘cow’ emanated from said member’s lips.