MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Tuesday 10 May 2022
• Reference code: PCD 1190

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have announced two new national pots of funding for Domestic Abuse (DA) and Sexual Violence (SV) services which is to be provided to PCCs on an annual basis until 2024/25. The total amount available is £19.45m per annum. London’s allocation of this funding will be determined by MoJ following their assessment of the bids and local needs assessment submitted by all PCCs. PCCs will then be responsible for the disbursement and management of the grants.
This decision requests approval for MOPAC to put forward bids to these new national funding pots, after running an open process to attract as many eligible applications as possible from a wide range of public bodies and the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). Following outcomes from the MoJ on the funding allocation for each PCC, this Decision will also then allow MOPAC to carry out the necessary steps to swiftly disburse and administer the funding awards from the MoJ.
This Decision is also requesting the approval of the transfer of a proportion of the ultimate MoJ funding award to a fund manager to distribute and manage the funds on MOPAC’s behalf (see PCD 1196).

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1479

Executive Summary: 
Former PC (‘FPC’) Johnson was convicted of an offence committed in connection with his service as a member of the Metropolitan Police Service (“MPS”). The Home Office has granted a certificate of forfeiture on the basis that the conviction was liable to lead to serious loss of confidence in the public service. The next stage is for the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (“DMPC”) to determine whether FPC Johnson’s pension should be forfeited in whole or in part, permanently or temporarily, or at all.

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1563

Executive Summary:
In September 2016, the Devon and Cornwall Chief Constable and the NPCC Lead for Modern Slavery successfully bid into the Police Transformation Fund to support the introduction of a number of projects to improve the national policing and law enforcement response to Modern Slavery. Police and Crime Commissioners have agreed to collaborate in relation to the running of the Modern Slavery Police Transformation Programme.
To deliver the programme, there has been a national collaboration agreement (pursuant to section 22A of the Police Act 1996) in place, which MOPAC has signed and renewed annually. This paper therefore requests approval to renew collaboration with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, and others, under the updated Agreement (see Appendix 2) to continue running the programme (now the Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Programme) in England and Wales.
This Agreement covers the period between 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, so is retrospective.

• Date signed: Wednesday 24 April 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1659

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval to accept grant funding from the Home Office (HO) Asset Recovery top slice Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) to support the continued funding for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) commitment to resource the Economic Crime Dedicated Source Unit (EC DSU).

The unit focusses and targets the recruitment and management of Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) to combat financial and economic crime in line with the Governments Serious Organised Crime Strategy.

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1666

Executive Summary:
The Metropolitan Police Service deliver drug testing in Police custody and procure drug testing equipment and laboratory services for contested orders, funded by MOPAC. This funding enables the identification and referral to treatment of drug using offenders, which plays an important role in reducing reoffending and improving health outcomes.
The Home Office have offered additional funding for this financial year, 2024/25, to continue the delivery of and expand drug testing on arrest. The Metropolitan Police Service proposes to continue their current programme of testing and continue to expand the use of Inspector’s Authority. This decision requests the acceptance of £25,000 in grant funding, for delivery from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025.

• Date signed: Tuesday 30 July 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1667

Executive Summary:  
As stated in his Police and Crime Plan for London 2022-25, the Mayor is committed to improving the support provided to all victims of crime. This includes those bereaved and seriously injured victims of road traffic collisions in London.
MOPAC and Transport for London (TfL) have worked together to develop and commission specialist support services for victims of road traffic collisions in London. TfL directly commissioned a 12-month pilot project, the initial value of which was up to £250,000. MOPAC contributed £100,000 of this (PCD 1376).
This Decision seeks approval to transfer a further one-off contribution of up to £100,000 to TfL for the extension of the pilot for another 12-month period in order to continue gathering evidence for how best to support these victims. It also seeks approval to update the existing Service Level Agreement (SLA) with TfL, to ensure MOPAC is involved in the management and continued development of the project, as well as supporting achieving successful outcomes and monitoring progress against the Mayor’s PCP priorities.

• Date signed: Thursday 18 July 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1668

Executive Summary:  

This paper seeks approval for the award of a contract for the supply of a service for the collection and management of clinical and offensive waste. The estimated upto 5 year value is £1,487,420 which will be funded from within existing MPS budgets.

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1670

Executive Summary:  
This paper seeks approval for the business case and procurement actions to enable the works necessary to bring Forest Gate Police Station back in to use following the fire on 6 March 2024. The estimated total cost of the project is £22,300,000 which is anticipated to be funded from a combination of grant funding, approved MOPAC capital funding and insurance claim.

• Date signed: Monday 8 July 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1671

Executive Summary:
The Mayor’s tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2022-2025 aims to tackle
VAWG, including harmful practices, through better education. The Mayor has committed to helping
prevent harmful practices by investing and supporting community-based education solutions for
harmful practices in London.
Research has shown that Harmful Practices have serious and long-lasting physical, emotional and psychological effects on those who experience them. The response to harmful practices and the support available for those experiencing them is piecemeal, with limited strategic coordination and integration into wider safeguarding and VAWG services.
Engaging with affected communities is crucial with the need for the expertise of trusted community groups to carry out this work in London, to test community-based education approaches and inform future commissioning decisions in this area.
In March 2023, MOPAC launched a competitive grant process targeted at those organisations with the relevant cultural experience and expertise to deliver this pilot project inviting them to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) (See PCD 1613). T
This decision is seeking approval for MOPAC to award the grant to Barnado’s National Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Centre, the successful bidder from the competitive grant process. The maximum grant value is up to £370,000 with mobilisation and delivery of the pilot taking place from September 2024-25 to March 2026-27, up to 2.5 years from grant award.

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1661

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval, in respect of the disposal of seized vehicles, for a 12-month contract extension, an amendment to the originally approved procurement terms to allow a further optional 12-month extension to the initial 4 year period, and to note a retrospective change in supplier requiring a novation of contract. The contract actions operate under the Concession Contract Regulations as there is no cost to MOPAC/MPS.

• Date signed: Monday 24 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1673

Executive Summary:
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to consider an application for financial assistance in the sum of £12,960 (exclusive of VAT) made by the Applicant for legal representation at an inquest.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has the discretion to authorise financial assistance for police officers and staff where it would be conducive to the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force

• Date signed: Monday 17 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1674

Executive Summary:
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: Monday 17 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1675

Executive Summary:
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of claims 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: Thursday 20 June 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1677

Executive Summary: 
Rivus Fleet Solutions Limited (Rivus) provide a full repair and maintenance service to the overt response and general purpose MPS vehicle fleet totalling 3,750 assets.
The service provided is critical for the MPS in Policing London. The priority vehicles that are covered by the service are; Armed and Protected Carriers, Station Vans, IRVs, Dog Vans and Specialist vehicles.
Rivus are due to file a Notice of Intention to appoint administrators in 20 June 2024.
Subsequent to this the MPS worked with Rivus and its external advisors to discuss ongoing provision of services in light of Rivus’ worsening financial position.
Following detailed discussions and analysis regarding potential options to ensure continuity of service and critical support to London policing the MPS has decided, though Rivus’ administrators, to acquire the trade and assets of Rivus in order to provide to itself the contracted services.

• Date signed: Friday 28 June 2024

Executive Summary:
This Decision requests to approve a funding uplift of £180,000 to Rocketscience to additionally fund, grant manage and provide capacity-building support for up to 15 organisations within the Innovation Fund which was approved in PCD1487 on 1st August 2023.
As approved in PCD 1487 The VRU’s £1,500,000 Innovation Fund enabled community–led groups who are currently not accessing funding from the VRU, to test new approaches and ideas to support vulnerable Londoners who are at risk or have been involved in violence, applying for a grant up to £50,000. The Innovation Fund to date has funded 23 grassroots organisations, from across 15 boroughs, supporting 28,000 Londoners from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, offenders/ risk of offending and those with care experience.
With Summer and winter half terms approaching and evidence highlighting that young people are more vulnerable during these periods, the VRU is keen on expanding the Innovation Fund to allow community-led groups to provide targeted diversionary provisions to keep young people away from exploitation and involvement in violence during these periods. In line with the new Mayoral commitment, Sadiq Khan highlighted within his manifesto that he would invest in youth clubs and help create 250,000 positive opportunities for young Londoners to help steer them away from gangs and crime.
The variation to the Grant Management Contract will ensure there is continuity of grant management specialists and capacity-building support for new recipients of the Innovation Fund focusing on the summer and winter half terms of 2024. Rocketscience will receive £12,600 for the 6 months to provide additional grant management specialist and capacity building training until Dec 2024.
The remaining £167,400 will be allocated to organisations on the programme to carry out delivery of their proposed intervention following the competitive tender process that has already taken place.

• Date signed: Tuesday 30 July 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1683

Executive Summary: 



This Decision seeks approval for the continuation of funding arrangements for the Adult Women’s Diversion Scheme in the Central East BCU. Operational in this BCU since June 2023 (DMPC Decision 1435) the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in collaboration with MOPAC is now intending to extend provision for a further nine months to March 2025. To facilitate this, Decision 1683 seeks approval to receive funding from Tower Hamlets to the value of £45,452 via a Service Level Agreement; and amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) currently in place with HMPPS which underpins the wider co-commissioned London Women’s Community Rehabilitation Service, which became operational in December 2022. See PCD 1065. This Decision also seeks approval to update the 2024/2025 budget to reflect this additional income and expenditure.

• Date signed: Thursday 18 July 2024
• Reference code: PCD 1679

Executive Summary:
This paper seeks approval to initiate procurement for the MPS Uniform Provision when the current National Uniform Managed Service (NUMS) contract ends in March 2026.
Authority is also sought for an optional extension to the current contract if additional implementation time is required.

• Date signed: Thursday 18 July 2024

Executive Summary: 
This paper seeks approval for delegated authority to extend the existing PSA’s for one year to 31st March 2026, authority to renegotiate and sign new PSA’s between the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), HAL and LCY from 1st April 2025.

• Date signed: Tuesday 30 July 2024

Executive Summary:
This Decision requests the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime approves a funding spend of up to £250,000 to be allocated as grants to support up to two established Multi Faith Network members to design, develop and deliver their local responses to violence and enhanced training offer for staff members, volunteers to identify signs of exploitations and grooming within their faith groups.
London`s Violence Reduction Unit have set up a Multi Faith Network with the strategic aim of bringing together faith leaders and faith organisations, to focus on exploring what the faith sector can do in supporting young people affected by violence within the communities they serve.
Feedback from established Faith networks like those in the West Midlands has highlighted how impactful and how instrumental the faith sector can be to respond to some of the gaps in provisions of support for young people affected by violence.
To get approval for up to £250,000 for 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, allocating up to £70,000 to two consortium/partnerships, where criteria are met. With remaining budget of £50,000 for Multi Faith Training, strategy, consultancy fee, development and £60,000 for a learning partner.

• Date signed: Tuesday 30 July 2024

Executive Summary:
Following the discontinuation of the procurement process for the recommissioning of London’s service for victims and survivors of domestic abuse and to secure safe service continuity for Londoners, this decision seeks approval to extend the contractual arrangements for the domestic abuse services currently due to expire on 30th September 2024. This is necessary to enable MOPAC to deliver on its commitments in the PCP and to discharge MOPAC’s devolved responsibility for arranging the provision of services for victims of domestic abuse in London. This decision requests reprofiling of a total funding amount up to £5,000,000 (as awarded in PCD 1517) for the extension of current services, extending existing provision until 30th September 2025. In line with this request, this decision also requests an extension of the Drive IDVA Service (as awarded in PCD1436) to 31 March 2025.
This decision also seeks approval to initiate a renewed procurement process to identify a provider to deliver support services for victims of domestic abuse for a period of 30 months (2.5 years), with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months (2 years). The contract will also include a mobilisation period of 6 months, meaning the initial contract term will be up to a maximum of 36 months (3 years). It is proposed to publish the new tender with a total maximum value across the full 5-year period of £29,250,000.
The decision requests the profiling of a total funding amount up to £12,500,000 across financial years 2025/26 to 2027/28, for the initial contract period and up to a maximum value of £29,250,000. Any extensions beyond 2028 or in-year budget uplift will require further DMPC approval.