MOPAC Decisions

• Date signed: 20/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1567

This paper seeks approval for the replacement of buildings at Denmark Hill due to the poor condition of the existing 1980’s pre-fabrication structures and the need to re-provide the facility to meet existing and increasing demand in operational policing. The costs of £3,000,000 will be met from within the existing approved capital programme.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1568

This paper seeks approval for investment of £1,930,000 to refurbish Cobalt Square. This will enable the relocation of elements of the Directorate of Professional Standards to vacate Empress State Building, move initially to the third floor at Cobalt Square and then to have a permanent move to the ground floor at Cobalt Square. The cost will be met from the MPS Capital Plan.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1569

This paper seeks approval for uplifts in the value of existing awarded contracts for the front of house, grounds maintenance and pest control services. The total contracts value uplift is £2,928,890. The reasons for the uplifts are inflation, and additional demand driven by the retention of more buildings than expected and the police officer uplift. The paper also seeks approval to initiate the re-procurement of these services at a total estimated contract value of £85,200,000 over upto 7 years.

• Date signed: 20/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1574

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office funding in arrears of £79,100 for Tri- Service Training during 2022/23 and, acceptance of potential Home Office funding to continue the Tri-Service Training exercises for 24/25 and future years

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1578

This decision is to approve the continued funding by MOPAC of Regional Manager for Crimestoppers.  The current agreement, which ran for three years expires on 31st March 2024. 

• Date signed: 20/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1576

This paper seeks approval to novate the CARM Application Contract from NEC Software Solutions UK Ltd to Zetron Ltd.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1581

This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding of £382,590 from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to fund the continued operation of the Multi-Agency Response to Serious Organised Crime (MARSOC) Hub as well as up to £500,000 per year to fund the continued work of the dedicated team investigating Corruption within His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS).

• Date signed: 08/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1582

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 Two MOPAC/MPS are forecasting an overspend of £39.7m of which £40.1m relates to MPS budgets offset by an underspend of £0.4m on the MOPAC budgets.
The Capital Expenditure Forecast for 2023/24 is £335.6m. This represents a forecast overspend of £49.0m against the revised budget of £286.6m. The budget has been revised to take account of a property transaction which is planned for future years. As in previous years, it is planned that the Quarter Two forecasts will become the revised capital budget for Quarter Three and year-end.
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 £211.1m by the end of 2023/24. The reduction in reserves is £17.4m 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.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1583

This decision sets out to advise that the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime notes the proposed changes to decision PCD 1436 where MOPAC was awarded funding from the Home Office under the DA perpetrator scheme to provide interventions for domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators across three projects: Drive, Culturally Integrated Family Approach and Prevent & Change to be delivered over two years (1st April 2023 – 31st March 2025), with all delivery partners providing match funding.
Within the decision a breakdown of expenditure by programme was listed and in regard to the Drive allocation it was agreed that £150,000 would be allocated to procuring an evaluator and £48,144 would be allocated to the University of Bristol.
Following a review it was evident that the monies for these elements would be best suited for MOPAC to fund SafeLives directly, to develop the evaluation (see OCGOB paper for rationale) and sub-grant to University of Bristol, as SafeLives have an existing grant agreement in place within University of Bristol, as the evaluation is being pulled together collaboratively by The Drive Partnership, University of Bristol, MOPAC, OPCC South Wales and OPCC West Mercia and work is already underway.
The £150,000 allocation/element was provisionally approved by PCGOB on 20 November and there is no change to the University of Bristol’s evaluation plan for the £48,144, but will raise as a note at the next PCGOB on 19 December for information, as per advice from HR, Private Office and Secretariat Directorate and Corporate Services Directorate
This decision (PCD 1583) is required to approve that MOPAC will award funding directly to SafeLives and not as stated below (extract from decision PCD 1436)

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1587

The Mayor’s Action Plan for Transparency, Accountability and Trust in Policing made a commitment to overhaul community scrutiny structures in London to ensure they are more transparent, accountable and representative.
Black Thrive were commissioned to undertake an extensive consultation exercise on the future for a more representative and effective framework of community-led scrutiny of policing.
The Black Thrive report makes a series of recommendations and MOPAC must now consider how best to take them forward.
This work will enable delivery of a Mayoral commitment and support the Met’s delivery of the Casey Review recommendations and priorities set out by the Commissioner in the New Met for London strategy.
This decision seeks approval to vary an existing contract for the provision of additional capabilities across a number of areas, including user-led service design; demand and capacity modelling and commissioning and target operating model (TOM) design and delivery, to develop costed options for the future target operating model for community scrutiny.  

• Date signed: 20/12/23

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: 19/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1588

Police Medical Appeals are provided via a contract provided by the Home Office. Under the Police Pension Regulations of 1987; 2006 and 2015 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, officers and ex-officers are entitled to appeal any medical decision of the Selected Medical Practitioner (SMP).  All appeals are managed and heard by Duradiamond Healthcare. The MPS is satisfied that there remains a corporate responsibility on the organisation to pick up the costs of the appeals based on the regulatory requirements. The MPS is also satisfied that the correct procurement activity has been conducted by the Home Office in order to appoint the preferred supplier.

• Date signed: 20/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1548

This paper seeks approval for funding a total of £3,852,000 to fund the recruitment of additional staff within the HR department to increase capacity and capability to support the delivery of NMfL programmes, fulfil specific NMfL commitments to fix the foundations of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and deliver and transform current MPS services in line with NMfL ambitions. Actual expenditure will be allocated only within the available budget.

• Date signed: 19/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1561

MOPAC approved the disposal of the freehold interest in two circa 1 hectare sites 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 using the London Development Panel 2 (LDP2). In February 2022 (PCD1109) MOPAC approved the award of the preferred bidder status to the highest scoring bidder (Optivo, with Countryside as a partner in a joint venture) for the sale and development of the two sites at Hendon; MOPAC’s entry into the development agreement, building leases and necessary ancillary agreements; and a delegation to the MOPAC Chief Finance Officer to finalise the detail of the development agreement, building leases and ancillary agreements. Following the selection of the preferred bidder there were considerable changes in the market and as a result of these changes and the impact on the proposed development scheme, the scheme was no longer deliverable in line with the winning bid. The GLA and MOPAC agreed that the bidders who had previously submitted a bid at Invitation to Tender (ITT) should be asked to re-submit tenders. This paper seeks approval for the appointment of Countryside as the preferred bidder as a result of this retender.

• Date signed: 19/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1577

This Business Justification requests funding and approval to build and to fund the continuous development of the new MPS Enterprise Data Platform.

The new platform is at the core of improving the way the MPS accesses, stores and analyses its data. Its delivery is fundamental to the way the MPS wants to change its approach and become more of a data-driven organisation.

• Date signed: 11/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1515

Former PC (‘FPC’) Carrick was convicted of a number of offences committed in connection with his service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (‘MPS’). The Home Office has granted certificates of forfeiture on the basis that the convictions were 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 FPC Carrick’s pension should be forfeited in whole or in part, permanently or temporarily, or at all. She has decided that FPC Carrick’s pension be forfeited at a level of forfeiture of 65% (this is the maximum amount that can be forfeited) on a permanent basis.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1592

This paper seeks approval for the re-procurement of five services. The proposed contract value for the five re-procurements is £141,166,567 for contracts with potential terms over 7- 10 years. The cost of the contracts will be funded from within existing budgets, inflation uplifts as part of the annual budget process, and volume/growth increases e.g. New Met for London related, from specific business cases.

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1595

This paper seeks approval to accept LEDS grant allocation of £739,000 from the Home Office (HO) to fund the adoption of a National Identification Access Management (NIAM) system as well as implementing business change activities within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1596

This paper seeks approval for the uplift of £919,250 to the Home Office (HO) Grip Violence Fund to a revised total of £8,907,532 for the 2023/24 financial year. The funding will be used in the main for hot spot patrols to tackle violent crime in public spaces.
The paper also seeks approval to fund (from the HO grant) a grant payment of £246,700 to the University College London Jill Dando Institute (UCLJDI) for the delivery of training and expertise to police officers in Problem Orientated Policing (POP) and for the allocation of this funding by way of grant of £150,000 to British Transport Police (BTP) to support the MPS delivery of Home Office (HO) Violence GRIP funded operations in 2023–2024. 

• Date signed: 19/01/24
• Reference code: PCD 1597

This paper seeks approval to accept a one-off Home Office (HO) grant funding of up to £80,000 to support the HO led Winter Homicide Campaign which aims to reduce homicides of males under the age of 25 and those over, between December 2023 and February 2024.