MOPAC Decisions

• Date signed: 20/04/23
• Date published: 28/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1421

This report sets out the 2022/23 financial forecast for MPS and MOPAC as at 31 December 2022. This is the third financial monitoring report for the year and is to be considered alongside the published quarterly monitoring report that also sets out key outcomes information.
In February 2022 the 2022/23 budget was set at £3,186.2m. Subsequent changes to the budget have been approved reflecting additional grant funding, other income and changes to the application of reserves. As at Quarter Two the revised budget was £3,185.1m.
The Quarter Three budget includes further changes, reflecting additional grant funding of £21.8m and other income of £3.3m and a net reduction in the use of reserves of £11.0m. The net revised budget remains unchanged at £3,185.1m to the position reported at Quarter Two.
As at the end of December 2022 MPS and MOPAC are reporting a forecast underspend of £4.0m against the revised budget of £3,185.1m, of which £2.5m relates to MOPAC and £1.5m relates to MPS. The forecast position includes the additional costs to date for Operation London Bridge and assumes the MPS will be reimbursed by the Home Office.
At Quarter Two a revised budget for the Capital Programme of £321.8m was approved. The Capital Expenditure Forecast for 2022/23 is £273.7m, an underspend of £48.1m against the revised budget.
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 £420.1m by the end of 2022/23. The reduction in reserves is £21.3m 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: 23/11/22
• Date published: 27/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1331

This decision seeks approval to proceed urgently with the purchase of a Splunk Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, hosted within a dedicated secure instance within the London UK Region Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This is required to enable the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) to investigate, monitor and audit the use of CONNECT more efficiently across the Met after CONNECT Drop 1 goes live.

• Date signed: 31/03/23
• Date published: 27/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1378a

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is responsible for making arrangements for obtaining the views of the community and victims of crime on matters concerning policing in London and for overseeing the delivery of policing by the Metropolitan Police Service.
These functions are discharged through a variety of mechanisms, including the Community Monitoring Groups (CMGs) and Safer Neighbourhood Boards (SNBs), which are established mechanisms for delivering local police accountability and engagement, and through targeted engagement on specific areas of work.
In addition, MOPAC has supported the provision of a digital Neighbourhood Watch communications platform and it is proposed that this will continue until March 2024.
This decision seeks approval of the 2023/24 funding for the community engagement work programme referenced above totalling £741,500.

• Date signed: 17/02/23
• Date published: 27/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1351

Since April 2021, the VRU’s place based MyEnds programme has been providing support and funding for communities to lead and deliver interventions across eight neighbourhoods affected by high and sustained levels of violence across London.
In August 2022, the VRU announced the extension of the MyEnds programme across all eight currently commissioned neighbourhoods for a further 15 (fifteen) months from 1 April 2023 until 30 June 2024. This has been approved via PCD 1149 dated 25 May 2022.
The VRU is seeking to commission a specialist provider to undertake a community needs assessment to inform the recommissioning of the MyEnds programme from April 2024. This is to ensure the VRU is evidence led in its recommissioning of the programme and is informed by the most updated information on local needs, gaps in support and drivers of violence, in keeping with the hyper local approach of the programme.
Separately, following appropriate consultations and due diligence checks, the VRU is seeking approval to novate the current agreement with Hackney CVS for delivery of the MyEnds programme in Hackney to the Wickers Charity. This novation will come into effect on 1 April 2023 and be for the duration of the extension of the MyEnds programme upto 30 June 2024.
This proposal is to (a) allocate a total of £200,000 to fund the community needs assessment over 5 (five) months from May 2023 to September 2023 to enable the VRU to consider the refreshed evidence prior to recommissioning the MyEnds programme in April 2024; and (b) approve the novation of the MyEnds grant agreement between the VRU and Hackney CVS for MyEnds programme delivery in Hackney to the Wickers Charity from 1 April 2023 until 30 June 2024.

• Date signed: 22/05/23
• Date published: 27/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1427

This paper seeks approval to invest £1,400,000 to enhance the security arrangements at the Peel Centre in Hendon, and to approve the procurement necessary to implement the proposed arrangements. The investment cost will be met from the existing capital programme, and will result in a £100,000 p.a. revenue saving as a result of reduced guarding requirements.

• Date signed: 22/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1240

This decision seeks approval to accept additional funding from the Home Office of £1.183m for the Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme for Financial Year 2021/22 for agreed areas of additional investment. As part of this grant variation, milestones previously agreed to be achieved in Q4 2021/22 will now be carried forward to 2022/23.

• Date signed: 09/12/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1234

MOPAC is responsible for arranging the provision of support services to all victims of crime in London. One of the main ways in which MOPAC discharges this responsibility is through the commissioning of the London Victim and Witness Service and the Children and Young People’s Victim and Witness Service. These services provide essential practical and emotional support for victims and witnesses, to enable them to cope and recover from their experience and give their best evidence in court if necessary. Funding for these services comes from an annual grant from the Ministry of Justice. Current arrangements for these services are due to expire on 31st March 2023.
This decision requests the authority to extend the current arrangements for these two services by 18 months until the end of September 2024. This extension is required in order to provide MOPAC with sufficient time to recommission these two services.
The total financial commitment for these two extensions will be £13,315,200 over eighteen months.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1299

The Mayor remains committed to tackling hate crime, as reiterated in his new Police and Crime Plan 2022-25. He has pledged to champion diversity, promote integration, and stand in solidarity with all of London’s diverse communities against hatred and abuse; and work with partners to build community confidence and resilience to stand together against hate.
This decision seeks the continuation of grant support for the provision of resources to support London community-based events during National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2023.
The financial commitment in 2022-23 will be up to £25,000.

• Date signed: 16/06/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1232

This decision seeks approval for contract award to ‘Softcat PLC’, for an initial period of 2 years with a further option to extend for up to 12 months. The maximum value of the contract will be £900,000 (£300,000 per annum).

The contract will provide the MPS with access, via an online portal to SFR Medical Ltd, who will provide access to timely and accurate medical evidence which summarises a victim’s injuries and the subsequent treatment by medical professionals. This provides a compliant, efficient and simple ‘one touch’ process for front line officers to obtain medical Streamlined Forensic Reports (SFRs) as supporting evidence for any associated investigations and/or judicial proceedings.

The existing MPS process of obtaining medical reports and statements involves frontline police investigators attending hospitals in person which can be inefficient, protracted, time consuming and often takes medical professionals away from their core duties.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1211

The MPS/MOPAC Insurance Strategy requires to be approved by MOPAC in accordance with the Scheme of Consent and Delegation.

The existing 3 year Insurance Strategy was approved by MOPAC in 2019 and comes to an end this year. This paper recommends a new 3 year Insurance Strategy, which requires to be approved by the Deputy Mayor of Policing and Crime.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1221

This decision seeks approval of the cost of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services inspection into the Metropolitan Police Service, following the tragic deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor.



MOPAC has a statutory responsibility to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the MPS. The outcome of the inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor had an impact on the trust and confidence of Londoners, particularly the LGBTQ+ community and local people in Barking and Dagenham.
Whilst much has changed since those horrific murders in 2014/15, it is important that MOPAC seek independent assurance from HMICFRS regarding the investigation of death today by the MPS, to ensure lessons have been learnt.
The cost of the inspection is £216,000.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1245

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of three 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: 19/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1239

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of a claim for damages 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: 16/06/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1223

This decision seeks approval to tender for two insurance policies and award the contracts.
Authority is required for insurance premium expenditure greater than the authority delegated by the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation; so requiring approval from the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
Within an Insurance Programme, MOPAC-MPS purchases two insurances policies that were the subject of a competitive tender 4 years ago and an award made under a long term agreement, subject to a limit of expenditure which has now been reached.

• Date signed: 13/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23

This decision requests approval for the award of a framework agreement for the supply of Operational 5.56 ammunition. The request for award follows a competitive tender exercise in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has robustly tested as part of a tender process a wholly suitable ammunition to meet the armed policing challenges we face now and in the future.

The contract has an Estimated total value of £820,000 for the MPS and up to £3,270,000 nationally.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1297

As part of the current Mayor’s VAWG communications campaign, Have A Word, the Mayor has committed to providing access to an online toolkit promoting healthy relationships in schools. Following the successful Whole Schools Approach pilot in 4 Croydon schools, MOPAC has asked Tender Education and Arts to develop a VAWG Prevention online toolkit for secondary school teachers, to be published on the Have a Word webpage. To support the effective roll out of the VAWG Prevention Toolkit for teachers, MOPAC proposes to award grant funding to Tender Education and Arts.
The maximum value of the grant is £920,089 and it would run from October 2022 to March 2025. The payment of funding for Year 2 (July 2023 – March 2024) and Year 3 (April 2024 – March 2025) will be subject to a satisfactory evaluation to be completed by July 2023, which is the end of the academic year.

• Date signed: 30/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1267

This Decision seeks approval to extend MOPAC’s grant funding of the Adult Women’s Diversion Pilot for continued service delivery for a 8-week period covering 1st October 2022 to the 30th November 2022. This would enable the programme to continue to deliver until the new Co-Commissioned Pan-London Service commences (PCD 1156). This would ensure the Diversion Pilot’s total integration into the new service, preventing a break in the gender-specific, trauma-informed, needs-based and tailored services on diversion.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1295

The London Violence Reduction Unit is allocating Mayoral approved funding to enhance activity in boroughs, with families and in custody. This funding will be going to 4 separate programmes for commencement in April 2023. This will include enhancing the borough capacity building, which is hyper local activity to reduce violence, uplifting the allocated amount to parenting activity across London, rolling out the youth custody ‘reachable moments’ service across London & extending the delivery of the Divert App.
This will total £2,888,000 over a period of 1 year. The projects and programmes which are discussed in this Decision relate to PCDs 1149, 1147 & 1263.

• Date signed: 21/04/22
• Date published: 15/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1184

The Home Office have approved a UK shipment to Ukraine of police equipment that is no longer suitable for operational use. This is being co-ordinated by the National Police Co-ordination Centre (NPoCC) and every police force in the UK, including the MPS, has signed up to provide unused equipment.

As the MPS equipment is owned by MOPAC this decision is to obtain MOPAC approval for the MPS to donate as part of the wider UK policing response.

• Date signed: 28/02/23
• Date published: 04/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1369

This paper seeks approval to award a contract for the supply of stationery, small electrical goods and franking services. The proposal is for the award of a call-off contract for a term of 4 years from a Crown Commercial Services framework. The annual value of the call off contract is estimated at £1,750,000 which over a 4 year term is £7,000,000. The cost will be met from within existing MPS budgets.