MOPAC Decisions

• Date signed: 06/07/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1440

The Mayor is determined to see that victims of crime in London are better supported as a result of the steps set out in his Police and Crime Plan 2022-25. He is clear that the police, justice agencies and other partner organisations must work together if support is to be improved for victims pursuing their case through the justice process and for those who choose not to report.
MOPAC receives funding from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to partially pay for victim and witness support services MOPAC commissions in London. In August 2022 PCD1235 accepted Ministry of Justice funding via two grant agreements (known as Core and General), confirming some of MOPAC’s funding allocation for 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25. Under the General Grant, the MoJ has now confirmed the remaining elements of funding for 2023/24 only – Sexual Violence Local Commissioning Test funding and Pre-Trial Outreach Service. This will enable MOPAC to formally extend these elements of provision within existing services supporting victims and witnesses until March 2024.
This decision seeks approval to accept the grant funding, sign the MoJ General Grant Addendum, and manage the onward distribution of the funding to victim and witness services. The total additional funding now confirmed for 2023/24 is £3,348,887.80, broken down as £2,860,055.80 for Sexual Violence Local Commissioning and £488,832 for Pre-Trial Outreach Service.

• Date signed: 20/06/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1442

This decision requests the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime to approve an uplift in the FY 2023/2024 funding allocation for the Parent Carer Champion Network which incorporates carry forward funding from previous years. This decision is an extension of previous decision (PCD 1263) and would see the total spending for FY 2023/2024 increased from £2,000,000 to £2,190,144.
Currently 27 local authorities have taken up the funding for Parent Carer Champion Networks (PCCN) and have thriving and successful networks supporting hundreds of parents across London, and there’s funding set aside for a further 5, bringing the total up to 32 local authorities. Current funding allocates £62,500 per local authority, and this decision will increase that to £68,442. The additional spend will be made up of £171,880 carried forward from PCCN underspend from previous years, and £18,264 from Parenting Developments PCD 1295, and will allow for additional work with fathers and a focus on supporting children through education transition years.

• Date signed: 06/07/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1444

This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding of £10,500,000 from the Home Office for running of the Digital Public Contact (DPC) programme for 2023-24. DPC is a Tier 1 NPCC National Policing Programme hosted within the MPS with MOPAC as the contracting authority and with DCC Simon Megicks as the SRO.

The programme has delivered the Single Online Home (SOH), a web platform offering accessible, on-demand, interactive services (a Digital 101 offering Online Crime Reporting; Road Traffic Incident reporting; Firearms Licensing applications (including online payment); online chat; Domestic Abuse; ASB; Missing Persons and many more) and Police.uk (PUK) which is predominantly an information service for the public which transitioned from Home Office ownership onto the SOH platform in April 2020. The programme also delivers the social media operating model deployment within policing.

In addition the Strategic Integration Hub (SIH) is a key development which will provide the functionality to automatically transfer a report from a member of the public into a forces’ back office Records Management System, avoiding resource intensive re-keying. There are currently 35 forces fully on the SOH platform including BTP and by March 2024 the aim is to have 41 forces on the SOH platform, providing digital access to policing services.

The hosting arrangement was established in 2020/21 and this new Grant Agreement is a continuation for a further financial year.

• Date signed: 22/06/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1447

There are currently no Secure Children’s Homes in London, with London children being placed an average of 124 miles from home, which is disruptive for the child, their families and the services supporting them. The Department for Education has awarded just over £3.5 million in funds for feasibility work for the design and build of Secure Children’s Homes provision in London.
A previous Decision, PCD 1159 approved the grant funding of £65,000 to the West London Alliance for a land search in London for the provision of Secure Children’s Homes.
Since the previous decision, the West London Alliance are no longer managing the project, and funding for the project is being managed by the London Borough of Barnet.
This Decision requests authorisation to grant fund the London Borough of Barnet £65,000 for a Land Search to support the feasibility work for a London Secure Children’s Home.

• Date signed: 16/06/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1449

This paper seeks approval to invest £911,480 to replace and repair roofs at the Lippitts Hill helicopter site and at the same time take the opportunity to install roof solar panels to contribute towards the net zero carbon ambitions and reduce on-going costs. The investment cost will be funded from the existing approved capital programme.

• Date signed: 20/06/23
• Date published: 11/08/23

A decision is required from Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) on behalf of the NPCC, to receive upto £4,420,000 2023/24 funding provided by the Home Office to continue the NPCC Reform started in 2020-21, including funding of £1,000,000 to support the Review into the Operational Productivity of Policing.

• Date signed: 28/06/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1453

This paper seeks approval to initiate procurement to provide for the continued supply of water and waste water services for a initial period of 4 years with the option for a 1 year extension. The recommended route to market is the Central Purchasing Body (CPB) Laser. The estimated contract value is up to £10,403,000.
Delegation is also sought for the MPS Director of Commercial to enter into an alternative 2 year contract via the Crown Commercial Services framework if the preferred procurement route is not successful.
The estimated cost of the 4 + 1 year contract will be met from existing budgets, including the corporate provision for inflation, and if applicable the corporate provision for inflation and separate business cases for volume increases.

• Date signed: 21/07/23
• Date published: 11/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1464

• MOPAC’s Strategy & Oversight directorate is seeking approval to commence the recruitment process for the appointment of 15 additional Legally Qualified Chairs (LQCs) and 15 additional Independent Panel Members (IPMs), and to commence with a tender process to identify a supplier who provides specialist services to undertake the recruitment process and onboarding of these specialist roles.
• The responsibility currently sits with MOPAC to compile and maintain a list of LQCs and IPMs to sit on misconduct panels in respect of the MPS misconduct hearings. LQCs and IPMs have an important role to play in upholding the standards that the public expect of our police officers and rebuilding public trust and confidence in London’s police force.
• The total recruitment and onboarding costs are estimated in the region of £80,000.
• The contract is required to January 2024 by when the newly appointed LQCs and IPMs will be available to adjudicate on police misconduct panels.

• Date signed: 22/06/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1456

The MOPAC 2022/23 draft outturn position is an underspend of £2.969m against a net budget of £64.851m. This included a net transfer to reserves of £5.375m plus the transfer to £2.969m underspends to budget resilience reserve for MOPAC and budget smoothing for VRU. Formal approval for these transfers to reserves from the DMPC is requested.
Following approval of the MOPAC budget in February 2023 the budget now needs to be updated to reflect:
The proposed use of carry forwards from the 2022/23 budget
Changes to grant assumptions included in the original budget submission now that grant notification letters have been received.
This report sets out the revised changes and proposes a revised 2023/24 budget for MOPAC for which formal approval from the DMPC is requested.
In total, the proposed net budget changes for MOPAC are £0.090m reflecting a minor adjustment between MOPAC and MPS budgets.

• Date signed: 06/07/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1457

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of upto £4,700,000 for 2023/24 in respect of the National Policing Chiefs Council (NPCC) Chief Scientific Adviser core grant (previously known as Science, Technology, Analysis and, Research (STAR)), and to approve the granting of funds to successful STAR projects in police forces at an estimated value of £2,400,000 in 2023/24.

In addition, NPCC seek for both 2024/25 and 2025/26 approval to accept Home Office grant funding of upto £5,500,000, approval to provide funding to other police forces awarded STAR funding, and for the MPS to accept any STAR funded awards. There is no financial exposure to MOPAC.

• Date signed: 07/07/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1458

This paper seeks approval for funding and approval to award a contract for Forensic Services (MO4) five-year Equipment Refresh Programme- – Investigative Unlocking Tools.
The Equipment Refresh Programme covers equipment replacement to maintain and enhance Forensic Services operational capability, to continue to support wider operational policing, and to continue to meet regulatory and legislative requirements of maintaining a quality management system. The cost for Investigative Unlocking Tools is £8,551,000 with funding approved in the MOPAC five-year capital programme from 22/23 to 26/27. A further decision setting out a range of additional equipment refreshes will be brought forward shortly.

• Date signed: 16/06/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1459

This paper seeks approval to increase the proposed tender values for the Digital Forensic Services (MO4) Tender for the Provision of Digital Forensic Services from £8,000,000 to a total of £16,000,000 over four years. The services to be provided are for the Forensic Analysis of Mobile phone, computers, audio, CCTV, other niche services as well as the carrying out cell site analysis in respect of evidence seized by the MPS.

• Date signed: 12/06/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1436

The Home Office are awarding funding to Police and Crime Commissioners to provide interventions for domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators. MOPAC has been awarded, and this decision request formal acceptance of, £5,192,871.25 for three projects: Drive, Culturally Integrated Family Approach and Prevent & Change. These will be a delivered over two years (1st April 2023 – 31st March 2025), with all delivery partners providing match funding.

• Date signed: 16/06/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1450

This paper seeks approval to enter into a 25-year lease for space within the Kidbrooke Village development at a nil rent for a proposed neighbourhood police base, and for the procurement, cost and funding for the fit-out of the base. The proposal is at a net nil initial cost to MOPAC, with the on-going costs funded from within existing budgets.

• Date signed: 20/06/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1462

Drive is an intensive, coordinated multi agency response to domestic abuse (DA) perpetrators to change their behaviour with a focus on increasing victim safety, working alongside and complimenting existing interventions.

The pilot has been funded through a combination of MOPAC and Home Office funds between 1st August 2021 until 30st June 2023. Drive have now secured funding from Home Office Perpetrator Fund 2023-25, with match funding from MOPAC, to deliver the Drive project model pan-London.

• Date signed: 02/08/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1469

This paper seeks approval for an uplift in the contract value of upto £48,300,000 from £102,200,000 to £150,500,000 in relation to the five-year energy supply Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Customer Access Agreement for the term 2020/21-2025/26. The additional costs arise from the recent inflation and market volatility. Spend will be limited to actual energy consumed.

• Date signed: 06/07/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1466

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of £374,000 for 2023/24 in respect of the National Policing Coordination Centre (NPoCC) Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) function. There is no financial exposure to MOPAC.

• Date signed: 24/10/22
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1311

This decision concerns the refresh of devices (laptops, desktops and monitors used by Officers and Staff) that will become end of life during 2022/23 and 2023/24. The procurement will use existing DP contracts. The capital cost of £14.7M in 2022/3 and £15.6M in 2023/4 is funded from the approved Digital Policing (DP) capital budget.

• Date signed: 07/07/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1461

In April 2022, the Mayor published the outcome of ground-breaking research into Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA) in London. Our research highlighted the difficulties in measuring CAPVA due to underreporting because of the persistent shame, stigma and fear of criminalisation attached to this form of domestic abuse. The research found a continued misconception across society that CAPVA is symptomatic of parental failure, and a misunderstanding of the distinct dynamics of CAPVA as a form of domestic abuse.
The research includes 10 key recommendations to improve the identification and response to CAPVA in London. This included recommendations for practitioners working with families, the VRU and national policy makers.

• Date signed: 06/07/23
• Date published: 10/08/23
• Reference code: PCD 1463

The current Appropriate Adult Funded Scheme (AAFS) for vulnerable adults is due to end in September 2023 and is co-funded by MOPAC, MPS, NHS and Local authorities. While work is ongoing to confirm the plans for the future of the service, MOPAC and partners are looking to extend the current provision by 13 months. This decision requests a MOPAC contribution of £260,000 to extend the provision until October 2024.