Stoke Newington Section House Refurbishment

This paper seeks approval for additional investment of £3,300,000 in the Stoke Newington Section House to support the police officer uplift programme, include wifi capability and make provision for net zero carbon initiatives. The goods and services will be procured via existing compliant frameworks.

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is recommended to:

1. Approve expenditure of £2,388,000 for the full refurbishment of the Section House at Stoke Newington as part of the BCU refurbishment programme.

2. Approve £100,000 for the inclusion of WiFi to the section House.

3. Approve the option to undertake Carbon Zero initiatives at an additional cost of £840,000.

4. Approve an increase in funding up to £1,200,000 (subject to approval or otherwise of points 1 - 3 above) to meet the additional costs required to undertake the proposed works at Stoke Newington, with funds being met through growth provided for the officer uplift. Noting that the Capital Programme approved in February 2021 already includes provision of £2,128,000 to undertake the refurbishment of the Section House.

5. Approve works to be tendered via compliant MPS frameworks, and for delegated approval to be granted to the director of commercial services to enter into a contract with the successful supplier.

1. Introduction and background

1.1. MOPAC previously approved [PCD694] in January 2020 an investment of £10.9m in Stoke Newington Police Station and Section House. Additional works are now proposed to meet the expected uplift in police officer numbers.

2. Issues for consideration

2.1. The proposed works will enable the provision of additional lockers to meet the anticipated demand for the Central East Basic Command Unit (BCU) uplift in officer numbers. The Section House will be equipped with wifi capability to enable touchdown facilities to operate and there is provision proposed for consideration of investment to support ambitions to become net zero carbon. The net zero carbon works can be undertaken in parallel with the refurbishment, providing cost-savings in the longer term and minimising disruption.

2.2. This proposal supports the Police and Crime Plan 2017-21 as contributing towards delivering an estate which encourages better joint working across teams and disciplines, and with partners in other organisations, whilst providing more flexible space. This work is crucial to improving safeguarding for children, young people, and those at risk of, or survivors of, sexual exploitation and abuse and domestic abuse or violence.

3. Financial Comments

3.1. In addition to the already approved budget of £10.9m for the Stoke Newington Police Station and Section House works the estimated costs of this proposal is £3.3m.

3.2. The costs will be met from the existing approved Capital Programme, £2.1m, and from the officer growth funding, £1.2m.

4. Legal Comments

4.1. In carrying out its functions, MOPAC may, under paragraph 7, Schedule 3 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 “do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the exercise of the functions of the Office”. Section 6 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (“the Act”) provides the MOPAC must secure the maintenance of the Metropolitan Police Service, and secure that the Metropolitan Police is efficient and effective.

4.2. MPS Legal services confiorm that the proposed route to market is compliant with Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

4.3. Paragraph 4.8 of the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation and Consent provides that the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) has delegated authority to approve business cases for revenue or capital expenditure of £500,000 or above.

4.4. Paragraph 4.13 of the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation and Consent provides that the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) has delegated authority to approve all requests to go out to tender for contracts of £500,000 or above.

4.5. Paragraph 7.23 of the Scheme provides that the Director of Strategic Procurement has consent for the approval of the award of all contracts, with the exception of those called in through the agreed call in procedure. Paragraph 4.14 of the Scheme provides the DMPC reserves the right to call in any MPS proposal to award a contract for £500,000 or above.

5. Commercial Issues

5.1. This proposal will require the procurement of design services and the works to refurbish the site including the supply of lockers, wifi capabilities and carbon reducing measures.

5.2. The additional works will be sourced from the existing approved Minor & Intermediate Building Works Framework and the Construction Professional Services Framework.

6. GDPR and Data Privacy

6.1. MOPAC will adhere to the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 and ensure that any organisations who are commissioned to do work with or on behalf of MOPAC are fully compliant with the policy and understand their GDPR responsibilities.

6.2. The MPS assure that the project does not use personally identifiable data of members of the public, so there are no GDPR issues to be considered.

7. Equality Comments

7.1. MOPAC is required to comply with the public sector equality duty set out in section 149(1) of the Equality Act 2010. This requires MOPAC to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations by reference to people with protected characteristics. The protected characteristics are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

7.2. The MPS assure that a site specific Equalities Impact Assessment will be undertaken as part of the Detailed Design process, and that all buildings included in the Estate Transformation Implementation Plan will be Equalities Act compliant.

8. Background/supporting papers

• Appendix 1 MPS Paper Stoke Newington Section House