MOPAC Decisions

• Date signed: 26/06/25
• Reference code: PCD 1861

MOPAC approved the disposal of the freehold interest at Hendon training centre in Colindale in February 2020, PCD697. The sites are part of a portfolio planning arrangement agreed with the Mayor, and the management of the disposal is being undertaken by the GLA.
MOPAC and the GLA signed a Co-operation Agreement for the management of the disposal in March 2021. The agreement states that the GLA’s project costs will be split between MOPAC and GLA. The GLA have incurred project costs to date and MOPAC’s share is £222,415.13. DMPC decisions (PCD 890 and 1561) approved funding the project costs from the capital receipt. However, until the sale is completed, the project costs cannot be offset against the receipt. In the short-term, the project costs will be paid by MOPAC, funded by the Budget Resilience Reserve, and MOPAC will then recover the costs once the sale completes, and replenish the Budget Resilience Reserve.

• Date signed: 16/06/25
• Reference code: PCD 1868

The VRU are seeking permission to novate Wipers Youth CIC (company registration number: 12634357) contract to Wipers Youth CIC (company registration number: 15323717) from 1st July 2025.
This novation request is due to Wipers Youth CIC’ change in their company registration number.
PCD 1519 approved the competitive tender process to commission delivery partners for MyEnds 2.0. Subsequently, PCD 1644 approved additional funding to expand the rollout to three more locations.
Following a competitive tender process, nine VCS-led consortiums were awarded funding under MyEnds 2.0 to deliver community-led, place-based solutions in neighbourhoods experiencing high levels of need and persistent violence.
Among the nine successful consortiums, Wipers Youth CIC have been commissioned to lead the Kick Back consortium, delivering in Finsbury Park, Islington. VRU officers have worked closely with Wipers Youth CIC over the length of the MyEnds contract and are confident in their abilities to deliver the MyEnds programme and deliver community led solutions to violence reduction.

• Date signed: 23/05/25
• Reference code: PCD 1830

The Home Office is awarding funding to Police and Crime Commissioners to provide interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse and stalking. MOPAC has been awarded funding for 2025/26 and this decision requests the formal acceptance of £2,704,562 for two projects: The Drive Project (Drive) and Culturally Integrated Family Approach (CIFA). This funding will be used, in addition to MOPAC match funding of £386,213, to fund delivery during 2025/26.
This decision also seeks approval to use MOPAC funding totalling £1,580,700 for delivery of Drive and CIFA during 2026/27. This will include £253,000 of carry forward from the MOPAC Drive budget line in 2025/26 to be used in 2026/27.
A total of £4,671,475 of funding will be allocated to these domestic abuse interventions from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2027. This decision seeks approval of the proposed contract and grant arrangements to award this funding to providers and for delegated authority to sign these documents.

• Date signed: 21/03/25
• Reference code: PCD 1831

The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 requires that each Police and Crime Commissioner, in London’s case the Mayor of London, as occupant of MOPAC, produce a Police and Crime Plan by the end of the financial year in which he or she is elected. Following a consultation process of the draft Police and Crime Plan, which ran for eight weeks, this decision seeks the Mayor’s approval of the Police and Crime Plan 2025-29 (“the Plan”), to issue it and for its publication.
The Plan sets out the Mayor’s ambition that Londoners are safer – and feel safer, with four specific priority areas for action over the Plan term:
• Reducing violence and criminal exploitation
• Building safer and more confident communities
• Supporting and overseeing reform of the MPS
• Improving the Criminal Justice System and supporting victims.

• Date signed: 20/11/24
• Reference code: PCD 1720

Former DC (‘FDC’) Olwage was convicted of an offence committed in connection with their service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (‘MPS’). The Home Office has granted certificates of forfeiture on the basis that the conviction was liable to lead to serious loss of confidence in the public service. The next stage is for the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (‘DMPC’) to determine whether FDC Olwage’s pension should be forfeited in whole or in part, permanently or temporarily, or at all.

• Date signed: 08/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 1727

This paper seeks approval to commit funding, as part of the long-term investment strategy, to renew the MPS vehicle fleet over the next 5 years, and to initiate procurement actions with delegate authority to the Commercial Director, for the supply of replacement assets across the fleet via purchase and lease options.

• Date signed: 10/02/25
• Reference code: PCD 1761

The contract for the MOPAC Hate Crime Victims Service lapses on 30 September 2025. The service was commissioned in 2021 following a competitive tender process and is delivered by the Community Alliance To Combat Hate (CATCH), a consortium of specialist providers. Hate crime is recognised as a ‘high harm’ crime and the provision of specialist by-and-for support is a well-established part of the victim services landscape. It is MOPAC’s intention to commission a new Hate Crime Victims Service to ensure that victims of hate crime continue to have access to the kind of specialist support that best meets their needs.
MOPAC will offer a three-year contract to the value of up to £672,300 per year with an option to extend by a maximum of a further two years. A further DMPC Decision will be required to authorise the exercise of that option. The service will be procured via a competitive public tender process, with a service commencement date of 1 October 2025.

• Date signed: 18/12/24
• Reference code: PCD 1775

This paper seeks approval to initiate procurement and award contract for the supply of licencing and support for hardware and software in relation to national counter drone technology for a term of upto three years. The annual cost is estimated at £245,000 and is funded from Home Office grant.

• Date signed: 28/02/25
• Reference code: PCD 1780

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: 18/10/24
• Reference code: PCD 1663

This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding from the Home Office to fund the Facial Recognition Static Cameras Infrastructure Pilot. This pilot will include the necessary legal, data protection, policy and ethical considerations.

• Date signed: 06/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 17874

Following a comprehensive review of trade debtors and salary and pension overpayments, this paper seeks approval to write off debt totalling £1,141,884 over the 3 year period 2021/22 – 2023/24. Of the total write off requested £1,060,914 is considered irrecoverable and £80,970 is considered uneconomical to pursue.
The general approach in MOPAC is to recover any salary and pension overpayments and to ensure for each case, suitable management actions have been exhausted before reaching the decision to write-off the debt.

• Date signed: 08/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 1790

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance of the sum of £50,000.00 (exclusive of VAT) made by the Applicant for legal representation at a public inquiry.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise financial assistance for police officers and staff where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force

• Date signed: 10/02/25
• Reference code: PCD 1794

This decision seeks agreement to provide funding to His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) for the post of a GPS Lead Practitioner to work as part of the MOPAC project team leading the implementation of the GPS tagging programme.
The GPS Lead Practitioner plays an important role in linking the management of the GPS programme with case advice to practitioners, quality assurance of the programme and data collection to support contract management and evaluation. This post has been filled via a joint recruitment process with HMPPS.
This funding will be up to £45,000 for the period July 2024 to June 2025 and will be provided via grant agreement.

• Date signed: 06/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 1791

The DMPC agree a request to settle claims against the MPS, as set out in the part 2 report.

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise the settlement of legal proceedings where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force.

• Date signed: 13/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 1795

The DMPC agree an increase to the authority to settle the claim of XAB. Settlement has been agreed on two of the three claims against the MPS, as set out in the part 2 report.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise the settlement of legal proceedings where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force.

• Date signed: 10/02/25
• Reference code: PCD 1806

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance of the sum of £31,185.00 (exclusive of VAT) made by the Applicants for legal representation at a public inquiry. This amount excludes solicitors and counsels disbursement costs outlined within the exempt report but for which estimated costs are unknown.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise financial assistance for police officers and staff where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force.

• Date signed: 31/12/25
• Reference code: PCD 1796

This paper seeks approval to implement a predominantly insourced operating model for recruit training, supported by a Higher Education Institution (HEI) for the delivery of the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA).

• Date signed: 31/01/25
• Reference code: PCD 1798

This paper requests approval to implement a more user-friendly, simpler and more efficient cost-effective cloud-based approach, known as ‘Modern Management’, for the deployment and ongoing management of laptop and desktops Windows based user devices.

• Date signed: 07/02/25
• Reference code: PCD 1801

Approval is sought to make a direct award of contract to a specialist Recruitment company to deliver a singular recruitment process for Legally Qualified Persons and Independent Panel Members for MOPAC. This is a statutory obligation for MOPAC to supply them to MPS Misconduct Hearings and additional people are required to meet increased demand.

• Date signed: 31/03/25
• Reference code: PCD 1818

The Treasury Management Mid-Year Review provides details of MOPAC’s investment and borrowing activities for the period from 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024 (the Reporting Period) and highlights any relevant issues.
Returns on MOPAC’s investments during the Reporting Period were £10.68m against an interest receivable budget for the full year of £13.30m (80.30%).
MOPAC’s external borrowing reduced from £479.55m on 1 April 2024 to £478.75m at 30 September 2024.
All Treasury activity has been within the boundaries and levels set by the MOPAC Group and set out in the 2024/25 Treasury Management Strategy which was approved on 18 March 2024.