MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Monday 13 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1413

This decision seeks approval for the funding required to extend the Covert Policing Management Platform (CPMP) project to complete the delivery of the outstanding software required to support the centralised authorisation of covert activity and the management of assets involved, together with the necessary contract extension to support this.
Covert Policing Management Platform (CPMP) is a project delivering the Met Police Covert Authorities (MPCA) software application to centrally manage the authorisation processes and assets involved in covert activity to ensure compliance with current and future legislation. This corporate IT system will help maintain standards, evidence legality and improve trust in covert operations.
The purchase of this software solution was approved in April 2018 (PCD 364), but delays to the project now require additional funding and extensions to the contract to enable completion.

• Date signed: Monday 13 February 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1386

This decision requests approval to award the next MPS Value Added Reseller (VAR) contract to Computacenter (UK) Ltd following a mini-competition process.
The VAR contract is an essential route to market in maintaining an efficient, effective and compliant route to market to source a wide variety of IT hardware and software requirements that do not fall within the scope of the MPS Pegasus contract. This is a recognised legally compliant route to market.
The contract duration is for an initial two years, with two optional one year extensions (this term is based on the current MPS VAR contract).
The blanket value for the VAR contract based on current spend is up to a maximum of £150,000,000.
This decision is not requesting financial approval - each purchase order raised against the VAR will require the relevant level of financial authority sign off.

 

• Date signed: Friday 17 February 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1378

MOPAC commissions a large number of victim-survivor support services in London, including specialist and/or grassroots services supporting Black and minoritized groups in the capital. Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continues, with the level of demand for support services increasing and the need to support victims-survivors more intensely and over longer periods growing.
Simultaneously, the cost of living has been increasing across the UK since early 2021. Our services are reporting an increased need for financial support for basic items such as food and travel, as well as rising costs of household bills and accommodation. There are also increasing reports of victims-survivors advising of financial-related barriers preventing them from being able to leave abusive relationships and/or households, resulting in them continuing to be at risk of harm.
This decision requests approval to establish a Cost of Living Grant Fund (the Fund) with a value of up to £1m, to ensure victims-survivors can gain access to the financial assistance they and their families need to seek safety.
This decision also requests approval to issue a contract variation to the London Community Foundation (LCF) via the Grant Administration Services contract (awarded under PCD 1196), for which the maximum fee payable is £62,500.

• Date signed: Thursday 23 February 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1373

MOPAC hosts the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) . They currently occupy a MPS site which is being vacated. This paper seeks approval for a 6-month extension of their current occupation, the take on of a new lease at a new location and the fit out costs of the new accommodation. All of the costs are to be funded by the NPCC and NPoCC with no liability to MOPAC.

• Date signed: Tuesday 20 December 2022
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1309

The Metropolitan Police Service deliver drug testing in Police custody and procure drug testing equipment and laboratory services for contested orders, funded by MOPAC. This funding enables the identification and referral to treatment of drug using offenders, which plays an important role in reducing reoffending and improving health outcomes.
The Home Office have offered additional funding for this financial year, 2022/23, to expand drug testing on arrest. The Metropolitan Police Service propose to spend in the highest need areas, to increase testing for offences committed in the night-time economy, football-related offences, and violence against women and girls including domestic abuse offences. This decision requests the acceptance of £60,000 in grant funding, for delivery from 1st December 2022 to 31st March 2023.

• Date signed: Tuesday 28 February 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1367

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of upto £5,200,000 for 2022/23 in respect of the National Policing Chiefs Council (NPCC) Science, Technology, Analysis and, Research (STAR) function; to approve the granting of funds to successful STAR projects in police forces £2,517,581, and to approve the acceptance by MPS of STAR funding £514,818 for their successful STAR projects. There is no financial exposure to MOPAC.

• Date signed: Thursday 2 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1376

As stated in his Police and Crime Plan for London 2022-25, the Mayor is committed to improving the support provided to all victims of crime. This includes those bereaved and seriously injured victims of road traffic collisions in London.
MOPAC and Transport for London (TfL) are working together to develop and commission specialist support services for victims of road traffic collisions in London. TfL will directly commission this 12-month pilot project, the value of which is up to £250,000, and MOPAC have offered to contribute funding towards it.
This Decision seeks approval to transfer a one-off contribution of up to £100,000 to TfL. It also seeks approval to enter into a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with TfL, to ensure MOPAC is involved in the management and continued development of the project, as well as supporting achieving successful outcomes and monitoring progress against the Mayor’s PCP priorities.

• Date signed: Friday 17 February 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1366

Since Spring 2022, the VRU has been undertaking scoping work, working with stakeholders including consulting young people to understand the current needs and updated picture of young people in the criminal justice system with hidden unaddressed Special Educational Needs. The VRU has devised a Primary schools’ flagship programme called ‘Education Matters’ which encompasses 2 strands of activity: Talk Matters, and Difference Matters. The total amount of funding allocated to this programme is £4 million across 23/24, 24/25, and 25/26 FYs. This funding decision is looking to:
Award direct funding for the Primary Programme ‘Talk Matters’ to up to 7 potential boroughs identified across London where the need is greatest in terms of Key Stage 1/2 data and where there is also a correlation with poor outcomes for young people (at the end of Key Stage 4) when they leave statutory education. This direct funding will support the work of the VRU’s Primary schools’ Talk Matters programme, which will specifically look at addressing the correlation between children and young people in the criminal justice system and those that have significant speech and language communication difficulties as well as social, emotional, and mental health needs. This includes 7 direct awards within the 23/24 and 24/25 financial years and uplift in financial year 25/26 as the programme rolls off enabling local authorities to take the helm and address local needs for their local children and families. This allocation has been approved to begin in Financial Year 22/23 in PCD1149, however the work will now begin from financial year 23/24.
Procure the Primary Schools’ ‘Difference Matters’ Programme to be delivered in the same identified 7 boroughs as Talk Matters, across Financial Years 24/25 and 25/26, allowing for the delivery to be phased, with 23/24 to be used to fully scope the programmes approach. Difference Matters will enable school leaders to be aware and equipped to work with children and young people with neurodiversity. Data informs us that there is a correlation of young people with ADHD and/or other neurodiverse needs being disproportionately affected by school exclusions, and the number of those within PRUs (Pupil Referral Units) and in the CJS.
The allocation of the remaining £200,000 (PCD 1149) to be spent on procuring a holistic multi-year evaluation of both strands ‘Talk Matters’ and ‘Difference Matters’.
Both strands of Education Matters align with many of the VRU’s objectives in relation to the Outcomes Focused Performance Framework. This includes but is not limited to improving wellbeing, increasing engagement and achievement in education, supporting stronger families, improving understanding of different needs, improving inclusive practice, and giving young people every chance to succeed.

• Date signed: Monday 22 May 2023
• Date published: Friday 22 December 2023

This paper seek approval to initiate procurement for the supply of creative advertising services. The service covers a range of creative design services such as print, radio, TV and online content to support recruitment, and strategic crime prevention and internal campaigns The proposed contract is for an initial term of 2 years with two 1-year optional extensions. The estimated 4-year contract value is £8,000,000. The proposed contract is a call-off contract, which does not commit the MPS to expenditure with the supplier in any particular year, and costs will be met from within existing or to be approved MPS budgets.

• Date signed: Tuesday 7 February 2023
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1372

This paper seeks approval for a collaboration agreement between the MPS and the NCA in order to support the continued provision of MPS services to the to-be merged international crime fighting function. There are no financial implications.

• Date signed: Thursday 2 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1393

This decision seeks approval to replace the MPS non-emergency desktop phone system, principally with Microsoft Teams based telephony and leveraging its already commissioned Mission Critical Voice Platform (MCVP) in areas where a physical phone or call-centre capability is required.
Outside of its 999/101 systems the MPS also has legacy phone systems which provide personal, role, fixed and contact centre telephony. The MPS would like to consolidate its non-mobile telephony onto Microsoft Teams for general use and the new MCVP where physical phones or call-centre capability is required. This programme will decommission legacy non 999/101 phone systems providing improved capability by taking advantage of the investments already made in Microsoft Teams (for personal only) and MCVP (for role, fixed, contact centre and 999/101). The project will deliver:
Migration of all current business contact centres to MCVP
A Microsoft Teams extended capability, with inbound and outbound telephony services
Migration of all current business telephony (Cisco and Mitel) to future voice services (MCVP and Teams phone systems)
Removal of all legacy voice platforms
All voice services delivered from modern supported infrastructure.

• Date signed: Friday 10 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1409

The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), with a view to furthering road safety, encourages Police Forces to provide National Driver Offender Retraining Schemes (NDORS) as a voluntary alternative to court and prosecution to offending motorists who would benefit from improving their driving skills and road awareness following police intervention.
The NPCC via UK Road Offender Education (UKREOd Ltd) have established a UK National Model Programme which the service provider must deliver and conform to at all times, ensuing that the Schemes operated on behalf of all Police Forces of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland conform to one common standard.
A number of forces, including the MPS currently utilise the Bedfordshire Police Framework for Driver Offender Retraining and this is due to expire in December 2023. This is currently delivered by one provider who have registered interest in the next procurement.
The Metropolitan Police Service will take the lead on retendering the Framework agreement on the behalf of the Police Forces of Derbyshire Constabulary, Northumbria Police, Surrey & Sussex Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Bedfordshire Police Cambridgeshire Constabulary and TfL.
The courses provided under the framework:
National Speed Awareness Course (classroom NSAC and digital iNSAC).
National Motorway Awareness Course (NMAC – classroom and digital iNMAC)
RiDE likely to be replaced by National Rider Risk Awareness Course (NRAC) in early 2023.
Safe and Considerate Driving (SCD)
What’s Driving Us? Course.
Safe and Considerate Cycling Course (SCCC)
Your Belt Your Life (YBYL)
The MPS seeks to award a single supplier framework, whereby all the forces named can create their own contract under the framework via the direct award of a call off contract, once the framework is live.
Because of the unique partnership arrangement for improving Driver Standards in London between the MPS and TfL it is essential that in order to maximise financial return this framework will require an opportunity for TfL to align contracts. An opportunity for TfL to call off this Framework will be made available should they wish to.

• Date signed: Wednesday 8 February 2023
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1363

This Decision sets out the proposed funding and commissioning approach to the second phase of the VAWG Grassroots Fund for financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25. 
Since 2020, the Mayor has invested £3m to the VAWG Grassroots fund (PCD559), aimed at supporting the resilience of organisations who focus on ending VAWG. Delivered in partnership with the London Community Foundation and The Social Innovation Partnership, the Fund has supported 41 London-based grassroots VAWG organisations, all run by ‘by and for’ minoritised communities, 75% of which are led by women of colour.  
It is the intention to build on the success of the VAWG Grassroots fund to date, to create a new 2-year fund for 2023/24 and 2024/25, to enable growth, and to improve accessibility to as wide a range of community groups as possible including to those who are black and minoritised, those with disabilities, neuro-diverse, LGBT+ and older people. This Decision is also to ensure appropriate resource is allocated to the Fund Manager to effectively engage and deploy the Grassroots Fund. The London Community Foundation are the existing fund managers for the VAWG Grassroots Fund and the intention is to retain their services, in reference to PCD 1196 Grant Administration Services Contract.
The total financial commitment for round two will be £1.7m in 2023/24 and £1.7m in 2024/25 for the Grassroots Funding pot and London Community Foundation (LCF) Fund Manager and Capacity Building fee. 

• Date signed: Wednesday 23 November 2022
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1327

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.

• Date signed: Thursday 10 November 2022
• Date published: Thursday 21 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1337

This decision requests approval for the purchase of 1893 units of Crye Precision Ballistic Body Armour to replace all current AFOs body armour (excluding CTSFOs).
The current ballistic body armour is based on historic technology and certified to the Home Office 2007 standard which will be withdrawn in May 2022, impacting our ability to purchase protection. A commercial process to identify a replacement has been completed with Crye Precision being the recommendation.
The Crye Precision Ballistic Body Armour presents a number of improvements including meeting the 2017 Home Office standard, as a replacement to the current standard, which will soon be discontinued and improved comfort thereby reducing muscular-skeletal injures.
The Crye Precision was the only armour tested that fully complied with the user and operational requirements as well as Human Factors testing.
The new user requirements support improvements recommended by the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) Op Leven review. Lighter-weight Ballistic Body Armour (BBA) is seen as a key enabler to increase female AFO representation across the armed commands.

• Date signed: Friday 28 April 2023
• Date published: Monday 11 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1433

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider a request to settle a claim.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise financial settlement of claims where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force

• Date signed: Monday 23 January 2023
• Date published: Monday 11 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1350

This report sets out the 2022/23 financial forecast for MPS and MOPAC as at 30 September 2022. This is the second financial monitoring report for the year and is to be considered alongside the published quarterly monitoring report that also sets out key outcomes information.
At Quarter One budget changes of £1.1m and a net revised budget of £3,185.1m were approved, reflecting additional grant funding of £47.1m, additional other income of £23.4m and a £2.7m reduction in transfers from reserves. The Quarter Two budget reflects further changes, with additional £31.1m grant funding, notably £16m Home Office grant funding for the pay award and £2.3m increase in CT grant, and other income of £0.4m and a £0.5m net additional application of reserves. This report sets out the revised changes to the budget since the revised budget was approved at Quarter One.
As at the end of September 2022 MPS and MOPAC are forecasting an underspend of £3.2m for the end of the 2022/23 financial year of which £1.3m relates to MOPAC and £1.9m relates to MPS. The forecast position includes the additional costs to date for Operation London Bridge and assumes that they will be reimbursed by the Home Office.
The Capital Programme remains unchanged and is forecasting full year spend of £321.8m, an underspend of £73.8m against the budget of £395.6m. 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 an opening balance of £522.7m to £409.1m by the end of 2022/23. The reduction in reserves is £10.4m less 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 2021/22 into 2022/23 and also 2022/23 into 2023/24, and changes in planned usage of reserves.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Monday 11 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1425

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider a request to settle civil claims.

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

• Date signed: Wednesday 20 December 2023
• Date published: Monday 11 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1358

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of civil claims 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: Wednesday 21 December 2022
• Date published: Monday 11 December 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1298

This decision seeks to maintain the existing Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) service provision commissioned by the Mayor in London which supports all victims of sexual violence for a further twelve months from 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023.
SARC provision is a core function of Police and Crime Commissioners; and the only service that offers the forensic medical examinations which are a specialist medical procedure which contributes to the criminal justice process as part of victims’ access to justice. This service is co-commissioned with NHS England, who are the majority funder. NHS England commission Kings College Foundation Trust to deliver the London Havens across three hospital-based sites; Camberwell, Kensington and Whitechapel.
This decision seeks approval for MOPAC to enter into a funding agreement with NHS England for MOPAC’s funding contribution to the London Havens, who provide the SARCs service across London, to the value of £2,165,00 to support direct frontline support for victims of sexual violence regardless of their age, gender, sexual orientation, and background.