MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Wednesday 12 April 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1422

The MetIP upgrade project requires additional expenditure in 2023/24 in order to complete delivery of a new IT strategic platform. A new enterprise services bus will replace the MetIP bus technology, which is close to end of life, and an initial set of business critical bus services will be migrated onto the new platform. This project will mitigate technical debt and provide a new strategic platform for future projects and programmes.
This decision seeks approval for the required expenditure in 2023/24 and a contract extension with Accenture, who currently deliver MetIP services.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1424

This paper seeks approval to settle a legal claim issued by Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) in respect of the Property Services Next Generation procurement.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1428

The London Resettlement Partnership (LRP) is a joint approach to improving the resettlement experience for children in London. The LRP is primarily funded by the Youth Justice Board but is partnered with the 32 London Boroughs, Association of London Directors of Children’s Services, Ministry of Justice, Youth Justice Board, Youth Custody Service and NHS England. The LRP aims to improve outcomes for children by working in partnership to present real opportunities that support their return to the community with the aim of reducing reoffending.
MOPAC currently funds a post in Evidence and Insight to undertake the evaluation of LRP, and LB Camden has offered a further £25,000 of match funding for this post, which will enable MOPAC to continue this post until March 2024 which is when the current LRP is due to finish.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1420

This report presents the proposed Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Schedule of Fees and Charges for approval by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. The report details the results of a review of rates at the end of 2022/23 to reflect current price increases and sets out information on the recommended MPS fees and charges and Special Police Service rates for 2023/24.
This report also summarises the findings of reviews of income generating areas to demonstrate efficiencies and maximise income.
It is important to note that some fees and charges are determined by statute or legislation and backed up by recommended charging guidelines published by National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).
In accordance with Paragraph 9.5 of the Financial Regulations the Schedule of Fees and Charges requires approval of DMPC prior to publication.

• Date signed: Thursday 30 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1423

This decision seeks approval to proceed with technical refresh of CradlePoint routers in vehicles fitted with In-Vehicle Mobile Applications (IVMA) devices. The current CradlePoint routers cannot be supported or security assured beyond May 2023. The routers will be sourced via competitive procurement using the Health Trust Europe Framework. The cost of £1.7m will be funded from the MOPAC Approved Digital Policing (DP) Capital Budget.

• Date signed: Monday 22 May 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023

In March 2022, the Mayor published his new Police and Crime Plan (PCP), and in June 2022, he published his refreshed Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy. These documents set out MOPAC’s strategic priorities for the remainder of the Mayoralty and represent a large and complex delivery programme.
To support the delivery of these commitments, MOPAC is continuing to explore the creation of a ‘Victims Care Hub’ for London and has started planning for the recommissioning of its services that support victims of crime in London and services that support children and young people impacted by violence and exploitation. These are central parts of wider programmes of work to transform the care provided to victims of crime in London and protect people from harm and exploitation.

• Date signed: Friday 16 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1426

This paper seeks approval to extend the SSCL contract for changes required to the police officer pension scheme arising from the McCloud remedy. This remedy seeks to address the discriminatory nature of the changes proposed by the Government to public service workforces pension schemes in 2015. The cost is £7,110,571 and will be funded from within existing resources.

• Date signed: Thursday 13 April 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1430

This decision seeks approval to renew or extend selected existing IT contracts that expire in 2023-24 where there are no immediate alternative arrangements feasible or possible. This is not requesting approval for additional funding and will be funded from within existing MOPAC approved budgets.

• Date signed: Monday 5 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1435

In September 2019, MOPAC launched the Adult Women’s Diversion Pilot operating in Central North and Central South BCUs, which in December 2022 become part of the Pan London Co-Commissioned arrangement, moving the service from a pilot into core service until March 2025 (PCD 1065).
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets wish to fund an extension of the women’s diversion strand to an additional BCU covering Tower Hamlets and Hackney for 1 year. Funding of £66,000 has been allocated to pay for a fulltime key worker post within the already co-commissioned provider and mobilisation costs.
Due to the co-commissioned arrangements in place, this decision recommends that MOPAC accept this funding and use the funding to uplift our contribution within the agreed MoU with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

• Date signed: Thursday 6 July 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Tuesday 20 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Thursday 6 July 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Thursday 22 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Friday 16 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Tuesday 20 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023

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: Wednesday 28 June 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Friday 21 July 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• 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: Thursday 22 June 2023
• Date published: Thursday 10 August 2023
• 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: Thursday 6 July 2023
• Date published: Thursday 10 August 2023
• 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: Friday 7 July 2023
• Date published: Thursday 10 August 2023
• 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.