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Are VRU and MOPAC commissioned services meeting expectations?

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03 December 2024

Are VRU and MOPAC commissioned services meeting expectations?

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Mayor’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) both have significant commissioning powers. These largely focus on victims’ services, as well as crime prevention and reduction work.

Tomorrow, the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee will investigate how MOPAC and the VRU spend commissioning budgets, including services that have been commissioned over the last three years and how these services meet local need and improve the lives of Londoners.

The Committee will also review recent changes in MOPAC’s commissioning budget, including the 30 per cent transfer from the London Crime Prevention Fund to the centralised co-commissioning fund, and evaluate whether this has had an impact on wider service delivery.

The guests are:

Part 1 - 10:00am – 11:00am

  • Lib Peck, Director of the Violence Reduction Unit

Part 2 - 11:05am – 12:00pm

  • Will Balakrishnan, Director of Commissioning and Partnerships, MOPAC

The meeting will take place on Wednesday 4 December 2024 from 10am in Committee Rooms 2&3 at City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, E16 1ZE.

Media and members of the public are invited to attend.

The meeting can also be viewed LIVE or later via webcast or YouTube.

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Notes to editors

  1. Susan Hall AM, Chairman of the Police and Crime Committee, is available for interview.
  2. Find out more about the work of the Police and Crime Committee.
  3. Read the agenda in full.
  4. As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.

For more information, please contact Tony Smyth in the Assembly Media Office on 07763 251727 or [email protected]. For out of hours media enquiries please call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the Assembly duty press officer.

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