MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Tuesday 21 June 2022
• Date published: Friday 6 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1229

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: Tuesday 31 January 2023
• Date published: Friday 6 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1365

The VRU are leading on the coordination of the Serious Violence Duty across London and the Home Office have allocated funding to support each area with the implementation and delivery of elements of the Duty.
The VRU have been allocated a total amount of £2,548,650.10 split across financial years (below amounts per year) and have submitted an application form accordingly.

22/23 labour Costs: £137,941.30, non-labour costs: £206,621.25

23/24 labour costs: £647,435.38, non-labour costs: £623,888.22

24/25 labour costs: £616,333.64, non-labour costs: £316,430.36

The VRU will be splitting the funding equally across each 32 borough and will be requesting they submit an outline on how they will be using the funds in line with the Home Office application.

• Date signed: Wednesday 15 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1396

MOPAC is currently working in partnership with the MoJ and Kent PCC to pilot the Harm and Adverse Experience Network (HAVEN) service in Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institution (YOI) which recognises and responds to children’s past experiences of victimisation as a driver of offending behaviour (PCD 849 and PCD 880).
This Decision seeks agreement to extend the existing provision within YOI Cookham Wood for 2023/24 and to procure a provider to expand the provision of support for young victims to deliver in HMYOI Feltham for 2023-2025. The recommendations below outline the financial commitment needed from MOPAC and seek agreement to accept scale up funding from the GLA’s New Deal for Young People (NDYP). Scaling up this pilot will enable more boys to be supported to cope and recover from experiences of victimisation and trauma and will also allow for more robust evaluation findings.

• Date signed: Monday 20 February 2023
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1390

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider a request to settle a civil 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: Thursday 2 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1379

MOPAC manages the Youth 2 Adult Hub, a pilot project for young adults on probation in Newham which aims to reduce reoffending, improve mental health and increase access to pro-social opportunities.
The pilot is currently funded until March 31st 2023, however more time is needed to evidence impact. This decision seeks approval to extend the pilot by 12 months to allow sufficient time for evaluation, with MOPAC continuing to act as programme manager, and presents a proposal for how this extension would be financed. This would involve accepting a total of £578,000 funding from London Probation, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and LB Newham towards continuation of services and committing £530,000 to the extension from the Commissioning & Partnership Directorate’s approved core funding in 2022/23.

• Date signed: Wednesday 15 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1399

In 2022 the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) was awarded £5m through the 2022-25 Police Settlement to fund NPCC Reform. Home Office Award Agreement was signed off in November 2022.
A decision is now required from Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) on behalf of the NPCC, to receive the additional funding of £1m to support the NPCC Criminal Justice System (CJS) improvement programme of work for the 2022/23 financial year, into 23/24 and 24/25.

• Date signed: Wednesday 15 March 2023
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1382

This paper seek approval to accept Home Office grant funding in 2022/23 for a programme to develop national capability for safe and effective operation of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Drones. In addition the paper seeks approval to bid for and accept Home Office funding of £656,450 for this programme of work in 2023/24 and up to a ceiling value of £5m p.a. in future years.

• Date signed: Monday 7 February 2022
• Date published: Thursday 5 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1375

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of upto £159,873 for the period from October 2022 to 31 March 2024 in respect of the costs of a detective inspector to support the MPS National Policing Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead on Knife Crime.

• Date signed: Wednesday 29 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1210

The MPS receives, creates and stores large volumes of data in a wide variety of formats. The MPS needs a digital asset management platform to store its data and ensure that documents and media can be shared both internally and externally with trusted partners.
The MPS initially used Box as a Digital Asset Management Services (DAMS) tool in a proof of concept in 2016. The product was subsequently procured through G-Cloud, initially in July 2017, then again in June 2019, each time on a 2 year contract. The current Contract, awarded in June 2021, expires 30th June 2022. The MPS is seeking to procure a new 2 year contract with Box.com (UK) Ltd (with option for a further two-year extension).

• Date signed: Friday 16 June 2023
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Friday 17 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Tuesday 1 August 2023
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Wednesday 15 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Friday 17 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Tuesday 21 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Friday 17 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Friday 17 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Monday 11 July 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Friday 17 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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: Tuesday 14 June 2022
• Date published: Wednesday 4 October 2023
• 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).