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Met Police Authority to discuss Form 696
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 May 2009
As you receive this edition of the Daily, a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority will be underway where the controversial Form 696 is due to be discussed.
The MPA supervises London’s police force, and according to Music Week, one of its members, Christopher Boothman, who has worked with the Notting Hill Carnival and other music events, is expected to raise the issue of the form, which promoters of live music in London are now expected to fill out as part of the licensing process. The form has been criticised for asking far too much information about performers, and for very specific genre information which many suspect is used by the authorities to guess what kind of ethnic demographic will attend an event. Boothman is expected to ask police commissioner Paul Stephenson to justify the form, which a parliamentary select committee recently said should be abolished.
UK Music chief Feargal Sharkey has also written to Boris Johnson, who as Mayor Of London chairs the MPA, urging him to take up the issue of the form with police chiefs.
