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Sadiq Khan's Green rival says Met Police officers should 'get out of London schools where they're not wanted'

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Published date10 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
She made the comments at a hustings for London mayoral candidates in Westminster on Tuesday April 9, organised by deaf and disabled people’s charity, Inclusion London. Garbett said: “We want to look at what the Met are doing with their time… making sure they’re not in spaces that overly criminalise young people. We’ve talked about getting police out of schools and into neighbourhood teams

“We know from evidence from Liberty, the social justice charity, that police being in schools often criminalises Black young people, Gypsy, Roma [and] Traveller young people, disabled young people, LGBTIQ+ young people. We know from those young people that they don’t want police in schools.”

Garbett’s comments were in response to a question about what she would do to tackle disability hate crime and combat ableism, racism, sexism and homophobia in the Met Police.

Last year a Freedom of Information request made by race equality charity the Runnymede Trust revealed there were 489 officers in schools across London. Half of all officers in UK schools are in the capital.

Garbett was the only mayoral candidate from the four leading parties in the contest to attend the event at The Abbey Centre on Tuesday afternoon. Current mayor and Labour candidate Sadiq Khan, Conservative candidate Susan Hall and Liberal Democrat candidate Rob Blackie all chose to send representatives in their place.

Standing in for Khan, Rachel Blake, Labour’s parliamentary...

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