Mayor Watch report:
Metropolitan Police officers failed to attend court to give evidence 56 times over the past three months, according to a Freedom of Information Act response published on the force’s website.
Data on the non-attendance of witnesses is collated by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service as part of its monitoring of Magistrates court hearings adjourned or discontinued.
According to the Met’s response, the number of Magistrates court hearings adjourned over the past three months where officers failed to attend was as follows…