MOPAC decisions

• 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. 

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1850

The purpose of this paper is to adopt the changes identified in the MPS’s current mental health referral process to increase its efficiency and effectiveness by improving data monitoring metrics to support additional insight and resource the planning work, providing real-time data to allow central team monitoring and support operational officers, removing barriers to handover of the form 434 to NHS partners.

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1860

This paper requests approval to implement the OneDrive Migration project to migrate Frontline Officer and Staff digital documents & files from H: drive, design work for retention rules for personal files and the business change activities to support Officers and Staff.

• Date signed: Monday 2 June 2025
• Date published: Wednesday 23 July 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1855

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance 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: Monday 2 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1854

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance 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: Tuesday 18 March 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1815

Improving the safety of women and girls in London is a top priority for the Mayor, pledging in his 2024 manifesto to redouble efforts to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) are specialist medical and forensic services available to anyone who has been raped or sexually assaulted, regardless of whether they choose to report the offence to the police. Their provision is a core function of Police and Crime Commissioners; and they are the only service that offers the forensic medical examinations, a specialist medical procedure which contributes to the criminal justice process as part of victims’ access to justice.
MOPAC co-commission with NHS England (NHSE) London’s Haven’s, who provide the SARC service across the capital. It is delivered by Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, operates pan-London, and accepts referrals from the police and other professionals as well as self-referrals. The Havens currently operate from three hospital-based sites: Camberwell, Kensington, and Whitechapel.  
In October 2025, new Forensics Science Regulator (FSR) standards alongside a UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) come into effect. The current three-site delivery model will be unable to meet and comply with the new requirements, and will need to change.
A variety of reviews recommended moving to a “Onesite” model of delivery. These include: the Dame Elish Angiolini review (2015), the MOPAC/NHSE Sexual Violence Needs Assessment (November 2016) and then the NHSE/MOPAC commissioned options appraisal of the SARCs operating model (February 2020). This move was agreed by the then Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) in 2022.
Following extensive searches for, and options appraisals of, properties that meet the outlined needs, a suitable building has now been identified and MOPAC and NSHE are working together to secure the funding commitments required to secure the property.
This decision is recommending that MOPAC approve the borrowing of capital funding of up to £19.1m for the refit of the site and an uplift in annual revenue funding of up to £1.5m.

• Date signed: Friday 25 March 2022
• Reference code: PCD 1161

This decision seeks approval to award a contract for the purchase of armoured vehicles tendered via the Crown Commercial Services vehicle conversion dynamic purchasing system RM3814. These are required to replace the current fleet of armoured patrol vehicles for use across three business areas, MO6 Public Order, MO19 Firearms Unit and Aviation Policing.

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1859

Crimestoppers Trust provides a 24-hour anonymous service for the public as a means for them to report crime. This service is funded on a pro-rata basis by all Police Forces in the country.
This is a request to approve a 3-year agreement for the services provided by the Crimestoppers Bureau to the MPS. The agreement will cover the financial years 2025/26 to 2027/28, for a total value of £1,461k (£487k per annum).

• Date signed: Monday 2 June 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1862

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance 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: Thursday 26 June 2025
• 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: Monday 16 June 2025
• 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.