A letter with recommendations was sent to the Mayor, for response by 2 March 2018. The response was received on 18 April 2018.

The committee recommended that the Mayor carry out further work to fully understand how guns get onto London’s streets and what can be done to fully understand theft of legal guns and its impact on the capital. The Mayor in his response has said that “there are already sufficient structures in place to help us understand this element of the issue” and that the Met works with the firearms community to ensure compliance with licences.

Members also asked the Mayor to work with victims and offenders to better understand drivers for gun crime and publish more detail on levels of gun crime in London. In his response the Mayor said that MOPAC will “continue to consult with young victims of gun crime and knife crime”; and agreed to publish more information on gun crime through MOPAC. MOPAC subsequently published a ‘weapon enabled crime’ dashboard in Spring 2018. While it does not provide detail on all of the elements made in the recommendation, it does provide detail on gun offences by borough, the number of lethal guns fired, and the number of gun offences involving robbery.

The committee will continue, in the short term, to monitor gun crime as part of its investigation into tackling violence in London.

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