MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Monday 14 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1825

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval for MPS to initiate procurement for the re-provision of the two PSD Construction Frameworks (MPS Building Works Framework and MPS Construction Professional Services Framework).
The paper also seeks approval to extend the existing frameworks for up to 12 months with an uplift of their contract spend threshold to provide resilience and continuity to deliver the 2025/26 capital plan.

• Date signed: Monday 14 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1826

Executive Summary: 

This paper seeks approval for the replacement of the life-expired and obsolescent CCTV system across the Estate over a five-year period. The programme of replacement will reestablish effective monitored surveillance security at the perimeter of sites across the estate which will improve the safety of personnel and better monitoring of accessible assets.
A rolling five-year replacement programme has been developed that will offer a front-line focused programme of work, supporting the New Met for London (NMFL) plan. The programme aligns with the draft 2024-2034 Estates Strategy and supports the Fixing our Foundations strand by delivering safe and secure facilities for people, property and assets.
The programme will cost up to £24.5m in capital from 2025/26 to 2029/30 and ongoing annual revenue of £5.0m thereafter. These costs are included in the capital budget in the 2025/26 budget submission.

• Date signed: Monday 14 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1827

Executive Summary: 

This paper seeks approval to enter into a lease for space in the Canary Wharf area at a nil rent for a proposed neighbourhood police base. The proposal is at a net nil initial cost to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), with the ongoing costs to be funded from within existing budgets.

• Date signed: Monday 14 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1828

Executive Summary:

ServiceNow, the core MPS business application for Information Technology, more commonly known as ‘My IT Service Desk’ is increasingly difficult and costly to run due to historical customisation of the application.
The ServiceNow Fit for Future programme has been set up to re-implement the ServiceNow in a standard configuration which allows MPS to leverage improved features and simplifies future upgrades.
This paper seeks approval for funding to carry out the re-implementation and appoint a Supplier to carry out the works.

• Date signed: Monday 31 March 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1829

Executive Summary:
This Business Justification Paper seeks commercial approval for all business-as-usual MPS technology requirements from 1st April 2025 to 30th September 2026. The majority of requirements are owned by the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Business Group but there are also other business units of the MPS that have locally owned technology requirements which have been included. All such requirements have been reviewed by the MPS Grey Estate Working Group to ensure compliance to relevant data and cyber security requirements.
This approval will streamline the number of submissions made to MOPAC for services that are already in place, required for the running of the MPS, and part of the relevant business areas MOPAC-approved budgets.

• Date signed: Thursday 27 March 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1776

Executive Summary: 
MOPAC’s GPS tagging programme has been running since 2017 focused on reduced reoffending, improving the enforcement of sentences and better protection for victims and the public. Since 2019 the GPS Knife Crime programme has been in place to reduce the risk of violence by those in the programme and the benefits of this programme have been supported by two positive evaluation reports.
PCD 1604 agreed to extend the GPS knife crime programme until March 2026 and agreed the budget allocation for 2025/26. This decision also included approval to start a new pilot for non-domestic abuse Stalkers, which was successfully launched in December 2024. This decision also approved the use of the Government Digital Marketplace for a new procurement of the GPS tagging and monitoring provider for 2025/26. This procurement process has now taken place, and we have identified the chosen provider, Buddi Ltd.
This decision seeks approval to award the 2025/26 GPS monitoring contract to Buddi Ltd to the maximum value of £1,170,000 for the initial 12-month term. This contract will include an optional 12-month extension period.

• Date signed: Tuesday 8 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1832

Executive Summary: 
The Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has been funding RISE Mutual CIC (RISE) in partnership with Waythrough to deliver The Bambu Project since August 2022. To date, the programme has demonstrated positive outcomes, including the development of emotional resilience in children and young people (aged 11-24) and improved confidence in accessing further support in the future. The programme has also received a highly positive evaluation report, highlighting the significant impact it has had on participants.
This decision seeks permission to directly award the CYPIDA services to RISE Mutual, enabling the continuation of the Bambu Project for a further 8 months from 31st July 2025 to 31st March 2026. The cost of this direct award is reflected in VRU’s 2025/26 budget.
The intention behind the direct award is to ensure the continuity of existing services, including the new provision introduced on 1st August 2024. This provision aims to support the victim/survivor parent of children and young people participating in the Bambu programme, facilitating a more holistic, family-wide approach to support.
The original contract, which was effective from August 2022 to July 2024, included a provision allowing for a one-year extension. This extension was exercised in accordance with the clause in the original agreement, which stipulates that any extension may not exceed 50% of the original contract value. As we have already utilised the option to extend the initial two-year contract last year, we are unable to exercise this option again. Therefore, we are now requesting a new contract via a direct award.
The direct award will provide the VRU with additional time to undertake a thorough procurement process for the recommissioning of services for children and young people affected by domestic abuse, which we are hoping to start Summer 2025. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the VRU's total funding, we were unable to commit to the future commissioning of this programme in time for the current contract's end date.
Following thorough consultation with the Victims-Programmes and Projects team, we have agreed that this work, providing targeted therapeutic support to child victims of domestic abuse, is distinct from the team’s broader offer for child victims of violence. Given its specialised nature, we will ensure further consultation during the commissioning process to prevent duplication.

• Date signed: Tuesday 8 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1834

Executive Summary: 
The Cyber Resilience Centre for London (CRCL) was established to focus on cyber-crime prevention activity for micro, supporting small and medium sized companies across London. This is a National Police Chiefs Council led programme, funded by the Home Office, with money routed through the City of London Corporation.
London’s Cyber Resilience Centre operates through a private company limited by guarantee, established for such purpose and known as Cyber Resilience Centre for London Limited (‘the CRCL Company’).
MOPAC owns this company directly, and MOPAC acts as the police body through which Home Office funding for London’s Cyber Resilience Centre is facilitated. MOPAC will own this company for the until changes set out below come into effect. MOPAC is the sole member, no costs will be borne by MOPAC, with all money for operating costs refunded to MOPAC (via the City of London Police) from a Home Office grant for Regional Cyber Resilience Centres.
In the forthcoming year the activity carried out by the CRCL will transfer to a police led national body. However, pending this transfer funding will still be required by the CRCL. As an interim measure, the Home Office has agreed to an extension of the CRC funding for cyber specific personnel for the first quarter of the new financial year, from 1 April to the end of June 2025. It is likely that this staged approach will continue.

• Date signed: Wednesday 16 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1836

Executive Summary: 

This decision is to determine whether an application should be submitted to the Home Secretary for certificates of forfeiture in respect of the former officer’s pension. At this first stage of the process a decision must be made whether the offence(s) committed by the former officer was or were committed in connection with his or her service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

• Date signed: Tuesday 8 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1838

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval to accept additional Home Office (HO) funding to support the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Single Online Home (SOH) contribution to the DPC Programme this financial year (2024-25).

• Date signed: Monday 23 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1842

Executive Summary:
As outlined in the Mayor's new Police and Crime Plan 2025-29, the safety of Londoners is his first priority. Building on progress made, he is determined to reduce violence and criminal exploitation, with victims remaining at the heart of everything he and the City Hall family does.
As part of this commitment, both London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) commission and procure a range of projects, programmes, and services that support achieving the Mayor’s ambitions and objectives. This includes through the mechanisms of designing and delivering various Grant programmes that meet the needs of Londoners affected by crime, including violence and exploitation.
To effectively develop, deliver, distribute, and manage these Grant programmes, the VRU and MOPAC both have ongoing requirements for grant administration services, which will be commissioned from the Provider on a call-off basis over the life of the contract.
These services are required to be in place from October 2025, for the immediate needs of the VRU’s Stronger Futures Programme 3.0. Stronger Futures is the VRU's flagship after-school programme, supporting young Londoners aged 8-18 years old to access after school provision between 3pm and 10pm, weekends, and school holiday activities when risk of violence is heightened.
This Decision therefore requests the approval of the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime for this procurement strategy for a supplier to provide grant administration services to the VRU and MOPAC. Any and all future use of services under this contract will be subject to further formal approval and decisions.

• Date signed: Wednesday 4 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1843

Executive Summary: 
Integrated Offender Management (IOM) is the national multi-agency partnership that manages the most persistent, repeat offenders. In recognition of the importance of this work, Mayoral funding was allocated via PCD 1291 to deliver IOM interventions as part of work to address serious violence.
The IOM mental health service launched in March 2023 with the aim of providing dedicated mental health support to IOM service users. The service was co-commissioned with London Probation, who contributed funding via a Memorandum of Understanding. In March 2024 MOPAC launched the Neurodiversity support service, similarly co-commissioned and funded in partnership with London Probation.
Currently the IOM Mental Health service is funded until 31st March 2026, and the Neurodiversity service is funded until 30th September 2025. This decision will uplift the funding for the Mental Health service to provide additional mental health support to two Probation approved premises until 31st March 2026, at a maximum cost of £80,000. This decision will also extend the Neurodiversity service by six months until 31st March 2026 to align with the Mental Health service. The cost of the extension of the Neurodiversity contract is £273,497, taking the value of the contract to £1,070,833.
This decision seeks approval to accept a further £200,000 from London Probation for the extension of the mental health service and £100,000 funding from London Probation for the extension of the neurodiversity service for 2025-26.
This decision also seeks approval to accept up to £80,000 funding from His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service for the expansion of the mental health service into approved premises.

• Date signed: Tuesday 8 April 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1817

Executive Summary: 

The Government published the ‘Hotspot Response Fund Guidance’ in late February 2024 merging ‘Grip’ and ASB hotspot response funding, totalling £8,139,508 in funding for 2024/25.

This paper seeks approval to accept an uplift of £200,000 to the Home Office (HO) Grip Violence Fund with a revised total of £8,339,508 for the 2024/25 financial year. The funding will be used mainly for hotspot patrols to tackle violent crime and Anti-social behaviour in public spaces.

• Date signed: Thursday 8 May 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1844

Executive Summary: 
MOPAC implemented MHR – People First HR System in 2022 when the system supported by the GLA ceased. MOPAC Board agreed a direct award as an options appraisal of TfL system and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) system after extensive exploration were determined as not affordable or suitable at that time. The contract value was £98,147.
It was agreed that MOPAC should consider alignment to the MPS three-year programme to implement a new Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) due 2025. However, this MPS programme was paused in 2024. Whilst it has now recommenced, the current expected delivery date is September 2027. In order to undertake a full options appraisal including potential alignment to MPS systems and to ensure MOPAC remains compliant and can undertake core HR processing, storage of employee data, and run an effective recruitment system a further three-year direct award to May 2028 MHR is proposed. This comprises £114,417 for the system and £26,544 for purchase of relevant content for the Learning Management System (LMS) aspect (this is passported through MHR to Go1).

• Date signed: Thursday 5 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1847

Executive Summary: 

The Casey Review highlighted that trust needs to be rebuilt between the MPS and victims of crime. The Police and Crime Plan for London commits to increase public trust in the MPS and provide better support to victims. Engagement with individuals with lived experience like the existing Victim Voice Forum (VVF) enables the MPS and MOPAC to gain valuable insight and drive change.
MOPAC and the MPS are extending the VVF programme to specific groups of victims with the lowest trust and confidence in the police. This includes a VVF for victims from London’s Black communities. The appointment of an independent organisation providing culturally competent recruitment to and administration and facilitation of this new Forum is needed to ensure its success.

This decision seeks approval to procure a facilitator for the proposed VVF for victims from London’s Black communities and to allocate an initial budget of up to £50,000 over 30 months (2.5 years) for this purpose. Additional extensions of the contract may be invoked for up to an additional two years, at a maximum of £20,000 per annum. To accommodate for the possibility of the need to commence further consultation work with those with lived experience, the maximum budget for this contract will be advertised as £108,000. Any extensions or variations to this contract above the initial value of £50,000 will require a further decision.

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1849

Executive Summary: 
In March 2022, the OBC for the redevelopment of the Kentish Town site was approved (PCD1152). This paper seeks approval for MPS to refurbish the Kentish Town Section House and dispose of the existing Police Station, annex building and part of the car parking area. The refurbishment of this key MPS site will also include provision of DPS Hearing Rooms. The proposal is dependent on the off-market sale of the existing Police Station, annex building and part of the car parking area. The site is adjacent to the Regus Road Development Area which Camden Borough Council are developing and so this proposal will support Camden Borough Council’s aspirations to redevelop the area to provide new homes and jobs and supports the wider regeneration of the Regus Road area as well as provide a solution to the MPS for the redevelopment of this geographically well positioned site to meet the operational needs of the Central North BCU.

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1851

Executive Summary:
This paper requests approval for the delivery of business-as-usual (BAU) and refresh device demand for the financial years 2025/26 & 2026/27, specifically laptops, desktops, monitors, and smartphones used by MPS Officers and Staff. This paper follows previous papers for device demand in 2023/24 & 2024/25.

• Date signed: Thursday 8 May 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1845

Executive Summary:
This Decision requests the transfer of up to £900,000 (up to £300,000 per annum for 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28), from the GLA’s Holiday Hope Programme to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) (MD3771).
These funds will used to deliver summer activities from 2025 to 2028, in line with the Holiday Hope programme and directly contributing towards the Mayor’s overarching ambition that 250,000 young people will have access to positive opportunities by 2028.
This will be broken down in three areas:
Up to £300k will be allocated towards the VRU’s Stronger Futures programme for 2025-26, funding thirteen of the existing Stronger Futures 2.0 grantees’ summer holiday provisions as outlined in their delivery plans.
A further £300k will be allocated towards the VRU’s Stronger Futures 3.0 programme for 2026–27 for holiday activities.
The remaining £300k will be allocated towards holiday activities within a potential contract extension of the Stronger Futures 3.0 programme for 2027-28, dependent on further funding and a DMPC decision.

• Date signed: Wednesday 4 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1853

Executive Summary: 
This Decision seeks approval for the continuation of funding arrangements for the Adult Women’s Diversion Scheme in the Central East BCU Area (Tower Hamlets and Hackney).
Diversion provision in this BCU was launched in June 2023 (DMPC Decision 1435) and funding was extended by PCD 1683 until 31 March 2025. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in collaboration with MOPAC, is now intending to extend provision for a further twelve months until 31 March 2026. The delivery of this will happen as an integrated part of the London Women in CJS service.
This decision seeks approval to receive funding from Tower Hamlets to the value of £60,603.
The Diversion Scheme aims to divert women that have committed a low-level offence away from entering the Criminal Justice System. Where appropriate, these women are issued with a Police Conditional Caution, requiring them to engage with local gender-specific support services. 

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1848

Executive Summary:  

This paper seeks approval for MPS to improve the existing welfare and drainage facilities at Brixton Police Station.