MOPAC Decisions

• Date signed: 16/06/23
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1455

This paper seeks approval to initiate and award the purchase of defibrillators and first aid bleed kits in accordance to delivering the 100 day plan to ‘Set up the Met to Succeed’. The purchase will be made via an existing MPS contract and approval is sought to increase the contract spend by a total of £1,560,00 accordingly within allowable parameters.

• Date signed: 17/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1233

This decision seeks approval for an upgrade to MetCC Work Force Manager (WFM) to replace the current on-premises systems that have reached end of support. The new WFM solution will be cloud based and provide additional functionality.

• Date signed: 01/08/23
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1454

This paper seeks approval to continue to acquire the supply of electricity and gas for the MPS estate from the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework for the period 2026/27-2030/31. The estimated worst case value of the 5 year term is £190,879,000. The cost of the supply will be met from the existing budget, and if applicable the corporate provision for inflation and separate business cases for volume increases.

• Date signed: 15/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1203

MOPAC hosts the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) which operates the International Crime Co-ordination Centre (ICCC). This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding from the National Crime Agency (NCA) of up to £5,400,000 to fund the work of the ICCC for the period 1 April 2022 to 1 October 2022 when the ICCC will transfer to the NCA. There is no financial exposure for MOPAC.

• Date signed: 17/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1204

In February 2021, MOPAC launched The Action Plan to Tackle Disproportionality in Youth Justice. Along with the actions, that were developed with youth justice partners and London Councils, MOPAC put together a Challenge Fund of £700,000 (Decision PCD 938) to support the delivery of these actions as well as to develop and trial innovative approaches for tackling disproportionality in Youth Justice.
This Decision refers to two projects which have been identified as opportunities to progress actions from the Youth Justice Action Plan.
This decision seeks agreement to:
Award a grant of up to £70,000 to the University of Nottingham as a direct award to support the development, user testing, and implementation of an app for children in police custody. A direct award justification paper was approved by MOPAC Procurement, Contracts and Grants Oversight Board.
Award a grant of up to £120,000 to Camden Local Authority to act as lead Local Authority to procure cultural competency training for Youth Justice Management Boards across London.

• Date signed: 21/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1134

MOPAC is working with health and justice partners to improve pathways to drug treatment from the criminal justice system. It has been identified that in order to achieve the best impact, criminal justice needs to be brought further into the health agenda. This decision seeks approval to fund a coordinator post within public health to bring health and justice together at a local level, and to manage a new strategic Board. The maximum budget for this work is £120,000 for a fixed-term 12-month post from 2022/23 to 2023/24.
This role and Board have been developed in partnership with GLA Health, Association of Directors of Public Health, Office for Heath Improvement and Disparities, NHSE/I Health & Justice London, and Metropolitan Police Service.

• Date signed: 17/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1209

In September 2016, the Devon and Cornwall Chief Constable and the NPCC Lead for Modern Slavery (MS) successfully bid into the Police Transformation Fund to support the introduction of a number of projects to improve the national policing response to MS. Police and Crime Commissioners have agreed to collaborate in relation to the running of the Modern Slavery Police Transformation Programme.
In order to do so there has been a S22A Collaboration Agreement in place, which we have signed and renewed annually. The paper therefore requests approval to renew collaboration with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, and others, under the updated S22A agreement in order to continue running the Modern Slavery police transformation programme in England and Wales.
This agreement is retrospective and covers the period between 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022.

• Date signed: 17/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1212

This paper seeks approval to accept continued Home Office (HO) grant funding of £3,018,000 in 2022/23 (and for the years 2023-25 subject to HO confirmation) to support MPS activity in relation to the Cyber Crime Unit in detecting, disrupting and deterring adversaries to enhance UK security in and through cyberspace and to include prevent, protect and prepare activities alongside pursue.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1219

This paper seek approval for the award of contracts to a single supplier for the two lots to provide catering services (Lot 1 staff dining/hospitality/vending, and Lot 2 detainee and operational feeding). The contract terms are for an initial period of three years with optional 2 x 1-year extensions. The Lot 1 contract value over 5 years is estimated at £430,000 and the Lot 2 at £6,600,000. Over the 5-year term the costs of the two lots is within budget.

• Date signed: 17/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1216

This decision seeks approval to accept the Home Office offer of grant funding for the three years 2022/23 – 2024/25 of up to £13,000,000 per year, plus an additional £900,000 for 2022/23. The funding will support the on-going work of the MPS County Lines Task Force – Operation Orochi. The operation is designed to reduce county-lines related violence across London and County Forces driven by intelligence and determined by levels of threat, risk and harm.

• Date signed: 14/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1119

This decision is to determine whether an application should be submitted to the Home Secretary for a certificate of forfeiture in respect of the former officer’s pension. At this first stage of the process a decision must be made whether the offence committed by the former officer was committed in connection with his or her service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

• Date signed: 15/06/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1123

This decision is to determine whether an application should be submitted to the Home Secretary for a certificate of forfeiture in respect of the former officer’s pension. At this first stage of the process a decision must be made whether the offence committed by the former officer was committed in connection with his or her service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

• Date signed: 08/12/22
• Date published: 04/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 962

The former officer was convicted of an offence committed in connection with his service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The Home Office has granted a certificate of forfeiture on the basis that the conviction was liable to lead to a serious loss of confidence in the public service.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1374

This paper seeks approval for a upto 4 year single tender action (STA) for the provision of professional medical services in order to meet the requirements of the Police Pension Authority and Police Pension regulations. The estimated 4-year cost is £946,256 which can be met from within the existing MPS budget.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1387

This decision requests approval for use of net additional funding of £984k for the purchase of 590 Ballistic Helmets for Armed Response Vehicle (ARV) Officers (inclusive of management fee).
This requirement has been caused by the mandate from National Armed Policing that all ARV officers will be CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) trained, with two thirds of on duty ARVs immediately deployable, by the 1st April 2023. This change to the ARV role profile provoked an urgent review of the ballistic head protection provided to ARV officers within the MPS as the current helmet is not compatible with CBRN respirators and cowls.
The MPS has a ballistic helmet available, used by CTSFOs (Counter Terrorist Specialist Firearms Officers), the “Ops Core”. This helmet is suitable for the ARV requirement, and is compatible with the CBRN equipment. Within the MPS, this helmet has not been through sufficient commercial governance to roll out in the numbers needed to deliver CBRN capability to all ARV officers. The Ops Core helmet will be one of the options considered and due to its high cost the funding request is calculated on this product.
To allow the MPS to procure a helmet as close to the required time frame as possible, procurement must take place via the National Uniform Managed Service (NUMS) contract. MOPAC are requested for approval to uplift the DHL contract by sufficient funds to cover the costs of the rollout of a new ARV helmet. The uplift in the contract is compliant with the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1388

This decision seeks approval for replacing the current MPS Intranet with a modern, fit-for-purpose version using the MS SharePoint platform, at a capital cost of £1.6m and project revenue cost of £259k.
A new Intranet solution was originally approved in March 2022. However, a re-tender became necessary when the MPS discovered the preferred supplier had a subsidiary in Belarus and so was non-compliant with Government sanctions.
For the re-procurement, the MPS has selected a UK supplier and has conducted exhaustive checks to ensure that there is no risk of breaking Government procurement rules and no risk to the reputation of the MPS and MOPAC.

• Date signed: 20/06/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1394

In his refreshed Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2022-25, the Mayor confirmed his continued commitment to making London safer for women and girls by building on the UN Safe Cities and Safe Public accreditation London achieved in 2018. He, along with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime and the London Night Czar have been working with partners to improve women's safety, and in 2018 launched the Women’s Night Safety Charter to make London a city where all women feel confident and welcome at night.
The Mayor invested £108,000 in 2021/22 in the Charter, overseen by Safer Business Network as the leading business crime reduction partnership in London (PCD 1024), and signatories to the Charter have now increased to over 1,000. In his 2021 mayoral election manifesto, he committed to expanding the Charter.
This decision seeks approval to continue to fund the Safer Business Network to carry on this work, supporting the further development and expansion of the Charter over the next two financial years. This requires total funding of up to £216,000 (up to £108,000 in both 2023/24 and 2024/25).

• Date signed: 25/05/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1364

The London Violence Reduction Unit funds the DIVERT programme to provide specialist diversionary support to young people (18-25) in police custody who might otherwise become involved with the criminal justice system.
The DIVERT App supplements the DIVERT programme by training police officers to engage and refer young people to diversionary support within the community prior to arrest. The web-based app pathway entails trained police officers engaging with young people by obtaining details that will be sent to a screener. The screener would proceed to make contact with the young person to complete a needs assessment and triage to statutory services and/or voluntary community services.
The DIVERT app was developed and piloted in April 2022- March 2023 in Camden and Islington. This pilot gave Bounceback Foundation an opportunity to focus on the Central North BCU to implement and embed the usage of the Divert app within police officers daily practice. The current grant agreement has allowed Bounceback Foundation to deliver the pilot with the funding allocation of £168,000 during FY 2022-2023.
The pilot has given Bouceback Foundation the opportunity to structure the fundamental aspects of the DIVERT App including consistently training police officers, arranging specific staff structure and establishing working partnerships.
The DIVERT App is currently delivered by BounceBack Foundation and is recommended to be extended for financial years 2023- 2024, to further embed the app into practice before consideration to further expansion to other BCUs, with the allocation of £138,000.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1370

This paper seeks approval for the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) to enter into a section 22A Collaboration Agreement with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in respect of the function of the Joint International Crime Centre (JICC). There are no direct financial implications arising from this proposal.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 03/10/23
• Reference code: PCD 1371

This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding of £3,500,000 from the National Crime Agency (NCA) to continue funding the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) International Crime Coordination Centre (ICCC) for the remainder of the financial year. There is no financial exposure for MOPAC.