MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: 24/06/24
• Reference code: PCD 1673

Executive Summary:
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance in the sum of £12,960 (exclusive of VAT) made by the Applicant for legal representation at an inquest.
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: 17/06/24
• Reference code: PCD 1674

Executive Summary:
The DMPC agree a request to settle a claim 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: 17/06/24
• Reference code: PCD 1675

Executive Summary:
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of claims for damages against the MPS.
There is an open and exempt report as some of the information relates to data protection, is commercially sensitive and is legal professional privileged.

• Date signed: 20/06/24
• Reference code: PCD 1677

Executive Summary: 
Rivus Fleet Solutions Limited (Rivus) provide a full repair and maintenance service to the overt response and general purpose MPS vehicle fleet totalling 3,750 assets.
The service provided is critical for the MPS in Policing London. The priority vehicles that are covered by the service are; Armed and Protected Carriers, Station Vans, IRVs, Dog Vans and Specialist vehicles.
Rivus are due to file a Notice of Intention to appoint administrators in 20 June 2024.
Subsequent to this the MPS worked with Rivus and its external advisors to discuss ongoing provision of services in light of Rivus’ worsening financial position.
Following detailed discussions and analysis regarding potential options to ensure continuity of service and critical support to London policing the MPS has decided, though Rivus’ administrators, to acquire the trade and assets of Rivus in order to provide to itself the contracted services.

• Date signed: 28/06/24

Executive Summary:
This Decision requests to approve a funding uplift of £180,000 to Rocketscience to additionally fund, grant manage and provide capacity-building support for up to 15 organisations within the Innovation Fund which was approved in PCD1487 on 1st August 2023.
As approved in PCD 1487 The VRU’s £1,500,000 Innovation Fund enabled community–led groups who are currently not accessing funding from the VRU, to test new approaches and ideas to support vulnerable Londoners who are at risk or have been involved in violence, applying for a grant up to £50,000. The Innovation Fund to date has funded 23 grassroots organisations, from across 15 boroughs, supporting 28,000 Londoners from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, offenders/ risk of offending and those with care experience.
With Summer and winter half terms approaching and evidence highlighting that young people are more vulnerable during these periods, the VRU is keen on expanding the Innovation Fund to allow community-led groups to provide targeted diversionary provisions to keep young people away from exploitation and involvement in violence during these periods. In line with the new Mayoral commitment, Sadiq Khan highlighted within his manifesto that he would invest in youth clubs and help create 250,000 positive opportunities for young Londoners to help steer them away from gangs and crime.
The variation to the Grant Management Contract will ensure there is continuity of grant management specialists and capacity-building support for new recipients of the Innovation Fund focusing on the summer and winter half terms of 2024. Rocketscience will receive £12,600 for the 6 months to provide additional grant management specialist and capacity building training until Dec 2024.
The remaining £167,400 will be allocated to organisations on the programme to carry out delivery of their proposed intervention following the competitive tender process that has already taken place.

• Date signed: 30/07/24
• Reference code: PCD 1683

Executive Summary: 



This Decision seeks approval for the continuation of funding arrangements for the Adult Women’s Diversion Scheme in the Central East BCU. Operational in this BCU since June 2023 (DMPC Decision 1435) the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in collaboration with MOPAC is now intending to extend provision for a further nine months to March 2025. To facilitate this, Decision 1683 seeks approval to receive funding from Tower Hamlets to the value of £45,452 via a Service Level Agreement; and amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) currently in place with HMPPS which underpins the wider co-commissioned London Women’s Community Rehabilitation Service, which became operational in December 2022. See PCD 1065. This Decision also seeks approval to update the 2024/2025 budget to reflect this additional income and expenditure.

• Date signed: 18/07/24
• Reference code: PCD 1679

Executive Summary:
This paper seeks approval to initiate procurement for the MPS Uniform Provision when the current National Uniform Managed Service (NUMS) contract ends in March 2026.
Authority is also sought for an optional extension to the current contract if additional implementation time is required.

• Date signed: 18/07/24

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval for delegated authority to extend the existing PSA’s for one year to 31st March 2026, authority to renegotiate and sign new PSA’s between the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), HAL and LCY from 1st April 2025.

• Date signed: 30/07/24

Executive Summary:
This Decision requests the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime approves a funding spend of up to £250,000 to be allocated as grants to support up to two established Multi Faith Network members to design, develop and deliver their local responses to violence and enhanced training offer for staff members, volunteers to identify signs of exploitations and grooming within their faith groups.
London`s Violence Reduction Unit have set up a Multi Faith Network with the strategic aim of bringing together faith leaders and faith organisations, to focus on exploring what the faith sector can do in supporting young people affected by violence within the communities they serve.
Feedback from established Faith networks like those in the West Midlands has highlighted how impactful and how instrumental the faith sector can be to respond to some of the gaps in provisions of support for young people affected by violence.
To get approval for up to £250,000 for 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, allocating up to £70,000 to two consortium/partnerships, where criteria are met. With remaining budget of £50,000 for Multi Faith Training, strategy, consultancy fee, development and £60,000 for a learning partner.

• Date signed: 30/07/24

Executive Summary:
Following the discontinuation of the procurement process for the recommissioning of London’s service for victims and survivors of domestic abuse and to secure safe service continuity for Londoners, this decision seeks approval to extend the contractual arrangements for the domestic abuse services currently due to expire on 30th September 2024. This is necessary to enable MOPAC to deliver on its commitments in the PCP and to discharge MOPAC’s devolved responsibility for arranging the provision of services for victims of domestic abuse in London. This decision requests reprofiling of a total funding amount up to £5,000,000 (as awarded in PCD 1517) for the extension of current services, extending existing provision until 30th September 2025. In line with this request, this decision also requests an extension of the Drive IDVA Service (as awarded in PCD1436) to 31 March 2025.
This decision also seeks approval to initiate a renewed procurement process to identify a provider to deliver support services for victims of domestic abuse for a period of 30 months (2.5 years), with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months (2 years). The contract will also include a mobilisation period of 6 months, meaning the initial contract term will be up to a maximum of 36 months (3 years). It is proposed to publish the new tender with a total maximum value across the full 5-year period of £29,250,000.
The decision requests the profiling of a total funding amount up to £12,500,000 across financial years 2025/26 to 2027/28, for the initial contract period and up to a maximum value of £29,250,000. Any extensions beyond 2028 or in-year budget uplift will require further DMPC approval.

• Date signed: 30/07/24

Executive Summary:
The Violence Reduction Unit’s parenting and families work focuses on developing stronger and more resourceful families (to better support young people). The Unit takes a ‘whole family approach’ to reducing violence. Programmes in this space focus on building strong parental and family relationships and supporting organisations and agencies to work together to engage families and support their needs.
The Violence Reduction Unit has invested in a Parent Carer Champion Network (PCCN), approved in PCD 1442, 1295 and 1263, which has already supported 11,724 parents and carers to increase their confidence in parenting and improve their family relationships. The first evaluation of PCCN started in April 2024 (CEOD 29/2023) and will be completed in January 2025, when a new iteration of the service will be developed based on the findings and recommendations of the evaluation.
To ensure that there is no gap in delivery of this important programme for parents, and that there is sufficient time to develop, commission and procure the new iteration, the Violence Reduction Unit is providing an extension of one year to the existing 29 PCCN grants. For these reasons, this decision seeks approval to extend the programme for a year across FY 2025/26 by £600,000.

• Date signed: 12/07/24

Executive Summary:
• This paper seeks approval for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to enter into a section 22A Collaboration Agreement with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) to support French local law enforcement with policing the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games. There are no direct financial implications arising from this proposal.

• Date signed: 30/07/24

This decision outlines the proposal to initiate a commissioning process to develop and deliver a range of activities to improve identification, awareness and support for girls and young women affected by gangs, violence and exploitation.
There are significant barriers currently to identification of girls and young women in this situation. Services can only support those that are identified and referred. Building on learning from the evaluation of VRU commissioned programmes such a Maia and recent work by MOPAC’s Evidence & Insight team it has been highlighted there is considerable work to be done in raising awareness and improving identification. The three strands of work outlined below aim to increase awareness, improve identification, quality and quantity of support available across MOPAC, the VRU and other partners.
The proposed commissioning activity includes:
Creation, development and support of a network of linked of girls and young women’s groups within local communities, which will provide a safe space for positive peer connection for those who have been impacted by violence and exploitation, to support trauma-responsive individual development and co-development of proposals to improve systems and services for girls and young women. These groups will also have the opportunity to work together to collaboratively co-develop ideas, proposals, recommendations and resources and so will operate as an ‘eco-system’.
Improving understanding of how to define and identify girls and young women affected by violence and exploitation with the creation of a gendered risk and needs assessment framework.
Funding analytic activity with the MPS to bring together data across building capability and capacity in the gathering and analysis of data relating to girls and young women impacted by violence and exploitation.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1557

Following the budget setting exercise up to February 2024, and the London Assembly’s approval of the Mayor Council tax requirement a its meeting on 22 February, the detailed MOPAC component budget for 2024/25 is submitted for the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime’s approval.
The budget presents a financing requirement for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) of £4,288.2m for 2024/25. This supports both the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (including the Violence Reduction Until) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). It also sets out a capital programme of £340.5m for 2024/25.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1643

In accordance with the Revised Financial Management Code of Practice for Policing MOPAC is required to publish a Reserves Strategy. The strategy includes details of both the general reserve and the earmarked reserves held, and explains the purpose of each reserve, together with the estimated opening balances for the year, details of planned additions / withdrawals, and the estimated closing balances.
Current plans assume a reduction in reserves of £210.7m in 2023/24 and then over the 3 year period 2024/25 – 2026/27 MOPACs reserves reduce by £200.3m This represents a reduction of £411.0m in the period 2023/24 – 2026/27. Resulting in a closing balance of earmarked reserves of £84.3m at March 2027 and this includes the general reserve of £46.6m.
The general reserve is currently 1.1% of the net revenue budget. Taking into account the sensitivities and risks in the Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP) it is proposed that the general reserve is increased to 2%-3% of net revenue expenditure. Contributions required to deliver this will be built into the MTFP from 2025/26 onwards.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1624

The Treasury Management strategy sets out how MOPAC will manage its borrowings and investments over the short and medium term.
The GLA will continue to implement the MOPAC Treasury Management strategy via the Treasury Management Shared Service arrangement. MOPAC is a member of the the London Treasury Liquidity Fund LP (LTLF) who manage all MOPAC investments to generate financial and risk reduction benefits.
The MOPAC Treasury Management Strategy will make use of both the London Treasury Liquidity Fund LP (LTLF) for investment purposes and has the capacity if required to make investments in its own name. This is designed to spread counter party risk.
The external debt and treasury management limits and indicators in Appendix 1 are consistent with the MOPAC medium term financial strategy and 2024-25 budget.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1656

This decision seeks approval for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to accept additional Home Office (HO) Grant funding of £192,993.82 for essential software and licences to be purchased in 2023/24.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1623

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is responsible for making arrangements for obtaining the views of communities and victims of crime on matters concerning policing in London and for overseeing the delivery of policing by the Metropolitan Police Service.
These functions are discharged through a variety of mechanisms, including the Community Monitoring Groups (CMGs) and Safer Neighbourhood Boards (SNBs), which are established mechanisms for delivering local police accountability and engagement, and through targeted engagement on specific areas of work.
In addition, MOPAC has supported the provision of a digital Neighbourhood Watch communications platform, Online Watch Link (OWL) and it is proposed that this will continue until 1 November 2024.
This decision seeks approval of the 2024/25 funding for the community engagement work programme referenced above up to a maximum of £741,500.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1657

In March 2022, MOPAC approved the original Business Case for a Forensics Case Management System. The original estimates identified a budget of £2,205,000 Capital expenditure and £4,470,000 Revenue expenditure, totalling £6,675,000.
The paper seeks approval to draw down on the capital allocation associated with the Forensics Case Management System project to address inflight project revision to scope and unforeseen supplier delivery costs, which were in scope of the project.
The revised scope requirement will address the identified change request for the system to be able to exchange data between MO4’s Forensics Operational Support team and Eurofins, a key supplier. This is a change in scope and will require a drawdown from the Transformation Capital Plan of £350,000.
To address increased supplier delivery costs, identified as a potential issue in the original Business Case and forecast overspend of existing project scope reported at project board since August 2023, a drawdown on the Transformation Capital Plan of £241,000 will alsl be required.

• Date signed: 18/03/24
• Reference code: PCD 1625

The MOPAC/MPS budget was approved in March 2023, revisions to the MOPAC budget were subsequently approved in June reflecting the proposed use of carry forwards from the 2022/23 budget, changes in grant assumptions and a minor adjustment between the MOPAC and MPS budget. Net expenditure remains the same at £3,281.5m.
As at the end of Quarter Three MOPAC/MPS are forecasting an overspend of £26.0m of which £27.6m relates to MPS budgets offset by an underspend of £1.6m on the MOPAC budgets. This is a reduction of £13.7m in the overspend position reported at Quarter Two.
The Capital Expenditure Forecast for 2023/24 is £325.9m. This represents a forecast underspend of £9.7m against the revised budget of £335.6m. As in previous years the budget has been revised to reflect the forecast position at Quarter Two.
The forecast position on reserves is also set out in the report and shows that earmarked reserves are forecast to reduce from £448.7m at the end of 2022/23 to £237.4m by the end of 2023/24. The reduction in reserves is £17.7m more than anticipated when the budget was set due a number of reasons including, reprofiling of projects into future financial years requiring funds to be carried forward from both 2022/23 into 2023/24 and also 2023/24 into 2024/25, and changes in planned usage of reserves.