MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Monday 31 March 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1811

Following the cross-GLA budget setting exercise from November 2024 – February 2025, and the London Assembly’s approval of the Mayor’s Council tax requirement at its meeting on 25 February 2025, the detailed MOPAC component budget for 2025-26 is submitted for the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime’s approval.
The budget presents a financing requirement for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) of £1,159.1m for 2025-26. This supports both the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (including the Violence Reduction Until) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). It also sets out a capital programme of £338.4m for 2025-26, which sits alongside the more detailed capital strategy.
The reserve strategy includes details of both the general reserve and the earmarked reserves held, and explains the purpose of each reserve, together with the estimated opening balances for the year, details of planned additions and withdrawals, and the estimated closing balances. The reserves currently have a forecast closing balance in 2024/25 of £262.2m, reducing to £124.0m by the end of 2027/28.

• Date signed: Monday 20 January 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1802

Executive Summary:

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is recommended to approve the settlement of a claim identified in the exempt part of this report.

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: Monday 27 January 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1805

The DMPC agree a request to settle a claim against the MPS, as set out in the part 2 report.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise the settlement of legal proceedings where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force.

• Date signed: Friday 31 January 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1797

This business case seeks approval to commence the procurement of MPS critical voice services, comprised of 999, 101, contact centers and enterprise voice services, as well as procurement of secure services to replace the current Call Routing Agreement Two (CRA2).

• Date signed: Friday 7 February 2025
• Reference code: PCD 1803

This paper seeks the approval of the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime to settle legal costs relating to a judicial review claim against MOPAC in accordance with the terms set out in Part 2 of this decision form. The claim for judicial review is in relation to MOPAC’s decision to extend it’s GPS tagging programme for a further two years and was issued against MOPAC and the Ministry of Justice.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1710

In the Police and Crime Plan, the Mayor sets out his commitment to protect children and young people from violence, harm and exploitation. This decision requests continuation and extension of funding to the end of March 2029 to the following projects and services to ensure young Londoners continue to have access to specialist support needed to help them cope and recover from crime or trauma and/or reduce risk of victimisation and exploitation:
Information Sharing to Tackle Violence and SafeStats – collating violence data from hospitals to improve understanding of where and when violence happens.

Funding to support local and regional safeguarding activity, including contributory funding to the London Safeguarding Children Partnership.

The Lighthouse – which supports children and young people who have been sexually abused in North Central London.
Child Sexual Abuse Hubs – which supports children and young people who have been sexually abused in North West, North East, South East and South West London.
The financial commitment will be £1,768,662 in 2025/26 and £1,583,662 per year from 2026/27 to 2028/29. The total financial commitment will therefore be £6,519,648.

• Date signed: Friday 18 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1713

As outlined in the Mayor’s election manifesto earlier this year, keeping Londoners safe has been – and will continue to be – his top priority for this new mayoralty. This includes redoubling efforts to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The development of his new Police and Crime Plan (PCP), as well as his refreshed VAWG Strategy, will be informed through consultation with Londoners, and will set out MOPAC’s strategic priorities for this term.

To help deliver on the Mayor’s commitments, MOPAC commissions a wide range of specialist services for victims-survivors of VAWG and funds various innovative initiatives across London to help prevent and reduce VAWG. MOPAC receives funding from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to partially fund some of these services.

The following 10 services/initiatives have been identified as key programmes supporting the delivery of the Mayor’s ambition to tackle VAWG:

London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC’s)

London Holistic and Advocacy Wrap-Around Service (LHAWAS)

London Stalking Support Service (LSSS)

Prevention and Action through Community Engagement and Training (P&ACT)

CouRAGEus

Specialist support for LGBT+ victims-survivors of domestic abuse

VAWG Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Expert Reference Group (ERG)

Women’s Night Safety Charter (WNSC)

Safer Spaces Now

VAWG Leadership Training

This decision requests approval to commit further investment by procuring, continuing and/or extending these vital services and initiatives that help ensure that VAWG is prevented and where it does occur, victims-survivors continue to have access to the specialist support they need to help them cope and recover from their experience. Where applicable, services will be extended to enable MOPAC to recommission specialist support for victims-survivors that reflect the Mayor’s new PCP and refreshed VAWG Strategy.

The total financial commitment from 2024-2029 is £18,643,937.

• Date signed: Monday 23 September 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1703

As part of the MPS Professionalism transformation agenda and addressing the Casey and Angiolini reviews this paper sets out proposed change and investment in the MPS vetting arrangements. Over a 5 year term there is proposed investment of c£6,400,000 in respect of procuring, implementing and operating a new case management system, a credit/address check service and extending the Vetting Transformation project team to implement these and other improvements. The cost is being funded from a combination of existing budgets and the New Met for London (NMfL) budget.

• Date signed: Thursday 10 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1719

The Casey Review has highlighted that trust needs to be rebuilt between the MPS and victims of crime. The Police and Crime Plan for London commits to increase public trust in the MPS and provide better support to victims. Engagement with individuals with lived experience like the existing Victim Voice Forum (VVF) enables the MPS and MOPAC to gain valuable insight and drive change.



This decision seeks approval to award a contract to Act by Laura Currer for the provision of facilitation, consultation and engagement with individuals with lived experience to inform MPS and MOPAC practice and services. The contract is to begin development of additional Victim Voice Forums (for victims and survivors of VAWG, disabled victims and LGBTQ+ victims) whilst also assisting MOPAC to develop in-house capability to deliver the full Victim Voice Forum programme and embed good practice around user voice. The value of the contract is a maximum of £96,300 and is for an initial period of 18 months, with the option to extend by a further 18 months at the cost of an additional £96,300.
In addition, this decision seeks approval to allocate a budget of £100,000 and authority to procure specialist advice on developing MOPAC’s capabilities around working with lived experience and embedding it into MOPAC’s work.

• Date signed: Thursday 12 September 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1715

This paper seeks approval to invest in and initiate procurement for the acquisition of 96 protected carriers (vehicles) to support the London and national requirements for public order policing. The initial cost is estimated at £10,848,000, with annual running costs of £792,000. These costs will be met from within the approved capital programme and existing revenue budgets. In addition, MPS seek approval for investment of £574,000 to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) for the increased number of officers trained at Level 2 public order training. This cost will be met from the approved New Met for London budget.

• Date signed: Tuesday 1 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1722

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is asked to approve the application for financial assistance made by the Applicants for the sum of £40,000.00 (exclusive of VAT) for the reasons set out in Part 2.
The DMPC has power to grant the application of £40,000.00 (exclusive of VAT) if she is satisfied that funding the Applicants legal expenses in the proceedings is likely to secure an efficient and effective police force.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1723

In the Police and Crime Plan 2022-2025 there are a number of priorities relating to reducing violence, reducing re-offending and improving the effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System in London.
This decision requests the continuation and extension of funding up to the end of March 2029 for the following projects and services relating to the Criminal Justice System:
Drug Testing in Police Custody
MAPPA- funding contribution for the London Executive Office of London MAPPA
Integrated Offender Management (IOM) – funding for the continuation of mental health support for individuals subject to IOM arrangements
London Stalking Threat Assessment Centre (S-TAC)- funding for the victim advocacy service
Drive- funding for tackling the behaviour of high harm perpetrators of domestic abuse.
Women in contact with the CJS- funding for co-commissioned women’s centres.
The financial commitment will be £3,363,000 in 2025/26, £740,000 in 2026/27, £40,000 in 2027/28 and £40,000 in 2028/29. Therefore, the total financial commitment will be £4,183,000.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1726

The Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) prioritises working in education. All of the VRU’s education investments, research and policy work promotes healthy relationships and inclusive practices to reduce disengagement and tackle all forms of exclusions, including suspensions, managed moves, and the rising levels of absenteeism.
As part of the wider Education Matters Programme (PCD 1366), consisting of Talk Matters and Difference Matters, £1.000m was designated for the Difference Matters programme for delivery of a programme in primary schools enabling school leaders to be aware and equipped to work with children and young people with neurodiversity across FY 24/25 and 25/26.
During April – August 2024, the VRU carried out in depth scoping, research and consultation to guide the form this new initiative should take. The research and consultation exercise for Difference Matters is now complete, concluding that the programme should be targeted in mainstream secondary schools, where the challenges experienced by neurodivergent children are most acute putting them at significantly higher risk of suspensions, exclusion and absenteeism. And that the programme should be piloted over at least 2 academic years, with an external evaluation, to ensure impact can be reliably demonstrated and learnings to other schools be disseminated.
After consultations with neurodivergent young people, their parents, schools, education professionals and local authorities the VRU is seeking approval to modify the duration, spend and commissioning of the programme (as approved in PCD 1366), including allocating funds to evaluate the work.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1706

As outlined in the refreshed Mayor of London Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2022-2025, the Mayor is committed to reviewing how sexual violence support service provision can better serve victims and survivors in London.
Since May 2023, MOPAC has commissioned Gate One Ltd, a specialist consultancy partner experienced in demand and capacity modelling and user-led service design, to work with victims-survivors and key partners to co-design MOPAC’s ‘core’ sexual violence service provision for London. This was in recognition of the need to reform the response to victims-survivors who have experienced rape and other sexual violence/abuse in London. Having designed a new operating model, Gate One Ltd have worked with MOPAC to develop proposals for the transition to and implementation of the proposed model.

This decision is seeking approval for MOPAC to initiate a procurement process to identify providers to deliver its core specialist sexual violence services as part of an Alliance Partnership model for a period of 5 years (inclusive of up to a 6-month mobilisation period), with the option to extend for a further 2 years (1 + 1).



This decision requests a total funding amount up to £45,401,039 across financial years 2025/26 to 2029/30 for the initial contract period. To allow for potential additional services that MOPAC may seek to include in this contract over their life, MOPAC will be advertising this bidding opportunity with a higher maximum potential contract value. This is to provide resilience and ensure MOPAC’s commercial arrangements are flexible enough should additional funding become available for this service. Any extensions or budget uplift will require further DMPC approval.



Funding for this service will be provided by MOPAC, NHS England (NHSE) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). It includes £9,993,227 core funding per annum, plus an additional £255,000 in the initial year for the delivery of the transformation and change management required for this service. As the service is being co-commissioned with NHSE funding from their Health in the Justice System department, this decision is also seeking approval to accept the £1,084,336 per annum plus an additional £15,000 one-off payment in the first year for website development plus any indexation costs from NHSE for the full length of the contract.
Finally, to secure a smooth and effective transition for victims-survivors from the existing service to the new alliance model, MOPAC is seeking approval to award a 6-month extension of grant funding to the current ‘core’ services for a total amount of £4,835,094.

• Date signed: Friday 11 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1669

This paper seeks approval to accept a donation of £200,000 from Jaguar and Land Rover Plc to enhance the MPS activities in tackling theft of motor vehicles.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1729

This paper seeks approval for a contract value uplift for the Catering Services Contracts to Lot 1 and Lot 2. The increase is required to maintain projected levels of spending due to increased demand for the services.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1731

This paper seeks approval to procure a new Learning Managed Service Framework (MSF) contract for the MPS as the current arrangements is due to run out on 31 March 2025.
This contract is owned and managed by Learning & Development and used to support access to an external supply chain for learning and development services that cannot viably or desirably be provided internally.

• Date signed: Wednesday 13 November 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1732

IDVAs/IDVAs are accredited specialist support workers focused on working with victim survivors of DA, rape and sexual assault. Following the introduction of the Employee DA Policy and the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences Unit in DPS, the MPS has funded an employee IDVA since 2019 and an additional ISVA service since April 2022. This has continued with the MPS’s pledge in 2024 to support victims of police perpetrated domestic abuse and sexual offences, and the VAWG Action Plan, which commits to providing an internal IDVA and ISVA service for officers and staff.
The current service provider’s contract is due to expire at the end of this financial year. Authorisation is required to approve the release of funding for IDVA and ISVA services for officers and staff over the next three financial years.

• Date signed: Thursday 17 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1734

This paper seeks approval to procure a replacement Managed Messaging service for mass communications over mobile phone networks using the Short Messaging Service (SMS).

• Date signed: Friday 18 October 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1735

This paper seeks approval to proceed, pursuant to Section 15 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Provision of Goods, with a contract to resell 3,125 Panasonic FZG2 tablets and 500 Panasonic keyboards to achieve approximately £1m in income.