PCD 1327 Home Office Grip Funding 2022-2025

PCD 1327 Home Office Grip Funding 2022-2025 

This paper seeks approval for the acceptance of Home Office funding of £7,988,282 for the each of the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25, and an additional £700,000 in 2022/23 only.  The funding is in support of the existing Grip Violence activity and can only be used for Hot Spot patrols and developing Problem Oriented Policing (POP). The funding will be used to make grants to the British Transport Police (BTP) of £150,000 and the Jill Dando Institute of £283,382 in support of their contributions towards these activities.  

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is recommended to:   

1. Accept the receipt of the Home Office Grip funding into the MPS and the associated conditions as set down in the grant agreement. The funding is combined total of £24,664,846 broken down as follows: 

1. 22/23: £8,688,282 

2. 23/24: £7,988,282 

3. 24/25: £7,988,282 

2. Approve provision of two specific grants in 2022/23 funded by the HO Grip Violence Grant Agreement. They are:  

1. Approve the allocation of £150,000 grant from the Home Office Grip funding to British Transport Police (BTP). This allocation is to fund their contribution towards the delivery of operational activity in their areas of responsibility in London.  

2. Approve the payment of a grant to the Jill Dando Institute (JDI) to the value of £283,382 from within the grip fund. This grant will enable increased capacity at the institute and will enable them to share expertise with MPS officers.

PART I - NON-CONFIDENTIAL FACTS AND ADVICE TO THE DMPC 

1. Introduction and background  

1. MOPAC has previously approved the acceptance of Home Office grant funding for Grip Violence activity – see PCD 1070. 

2. Issues for consideration 

1. The Home Office has made a multi-year grant offer of £7,988,282 for each of the three financial years 2022/23 to 2024/25.  This is the maximum the MPS were eligible to bid for from the Home Office.  As this is less than the grant funding last year there will be a reduction in the additional patrolling activity.  In addition there is one- off grant funding for 2022/23 of £700,000 for Community Insight Fund activity (£200,000) to evaluate the community impact of GRIP, and Innovation Fund (£500,000) to undertake randomised control trial of two methods of hotspot policing. 

2. The MPS assure that the funding supports strategic aims in reducing violence across the entire capital, and it provides significant opportunity to engage with critical stakeholders and key service providers, outside of policing, to deliver a truly joined up and community focused approach to reducing violence.  

3. To support the hot spot activity a grant worth £150,000 is proposed to be made to British Transport Police (BTP) as a number of serious violence hotspots in London are in the vicinity of major transport hubs for which BTP have responsibility. 

4. To support the work on Problem Oriented Policing (POP) a grant worth £283,382 is proposed to be made to the Jill Dando Institute  is to enhance the delivery of problem oriented policing activity across the MPS. 

3. Financial Comments  

1. The total grant funding for acceptance is £24,664,846 over the three year period 2022/23-2024/25.  The Home Office grant offer requires that the MPS match fund the grant to the value of 20% in 22/23 (£1,597,656), rising to 30% in 23/24 (£2,396,484) and 40% in 24/25 (£3,195,312). The MPS assure that these matching contributions will be funded from the Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) budget. 

2. The funding for the proposed grant awards to the BTP and the Jill Dando Institute will be met from within the Home Office grant funding. 

4. Legal Comments 

1. MOPAC may accept the proposed grant funding under Schedule 3 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, which provides MOPAC may do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the exercise of the functions of the Office entering into contracts and other agreements (whether legally binding or not); 

2. Para 4.8 of the MOPAC Scheme of Consent and Delegation provides the DMPC has delegated authority to approve bids for grant funding made and all offers made of grant funding; and/or where appropriate a strategy for grant giving. 

5. Commercial Issues  

1. The MPS assure that the ongoing use of the UCL Jill Dando Institute is justified as it is “at the forefront of the academic research into Problem Oriented Policing, have experience of working with other UK police forces to implement POP successfully. In addition, based on the scale and size of the POP Implementation Plan, MPS does not have the internal expertise to deliver this project alone. Due to their knowledge and expertise, we can be confident that the UCL will deliver the training in accordance with what we know works well. The MPS have also taken into account the fact that JDI have supported the College of Policing and NPCC lead in developing and launching guidance concerning how POP should be implemented in police forces. When taking all these factors into account, there is a clear evidenced demonstration that the JDI will deliver value for money.” 

6. GDPR and Data Privacy  

7. MOPAC will adhere to the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 and ensure that any organisations who are commissioned to do work with or on behalf of MOPAC are fully compliant with the policy and understand their GDPR responsibilities.   

8. The MPS has assured that following an assessment a full Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is not required. 

9. Equality Comments    

10. MOPAC is required to comply with the public sector equality duty set out in section 149(1) of the Equality Act 2010. This requires MOPAC to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations by reference to people with protected characteristics. The protected characteristics are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. 

11. The MPS assure that having undertaken an initilal equality screening no positive or negative impact has been identified to any individual and/or group safeguarded by a protected characteristic and those who are not. 

12. Background/supporting papers 

• Appendix 1 MPS Report - Home Office Grip Funding 2022-2025