• Date signed: 22/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1240

This decision seeks approval to accept additional funding from the Home Office of £1.183m for the Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme for Financial Year 2021/22 for agreed areas of additional investment. As part of this grant variation, milestones previously agreed to be achieved in Q4 2021/22 will now be carried forward to 2022/23.

• Date signed: 09/12/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1234

MOPAC is responsible for arranging the provision of support services to all victims of crime in London. One of the main ways in which MOPAC discharges this responsibility is through the commissioning of the London Victim and Witness Service and the Children and Young People’s Victim and Witness Service. These services provide essential practical and emotional support for victims and witnesses, to enable them to cope and recover from their experience and give their best evidence in court if necessary. Funding for these services comes from an annual grant from the Ministry of Justice. Current arrangements for these services are due to expire on 31st March 2023.
This decision requests the authority to extend the current arrangements for these two services by 18 months until the end of September 2024. This extension is required in order to provide MOPAC with sufficient time to recommission these two services.
The total financial commitment for these two extensions will be £13,315,200 over eighteen months.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1299

The Mayor remains committed to tackling hate crime, as reiterated in his new Police and Crime Plan 2022-25. He has pledged to champion diversity, promote integration, and stand in solidarity with all of London’s diverse communities against hatred and abuse; and work with partners to build community confidence and resilience to stand together against hate.
This decision seeks the continuation of grant support for the provision of resources to support London community-based events during National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2023.
The financial commitment in 2022-23 will be up to £25,000.

• Date signed: 16/06/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1232

This decision seeks approval for contract award to ‘Softcat PLC’, for an initial period of 2 years with a further option to extend for up to 12 months. The maximum value of the contract will be £900,000 (£300,000 per annum).

The contract will provide the MPS with access, via an online portal to SFR Medical Ltd, who will provide access to timely and accurate medical evidence which summarises a victim’s injuries and the subsequent treatment by medical professionals. This provides a compliant, efficient and simple ‘one touch’ process for front line officers to obtain medical Streamlined Forensic Reports (SFRs) as supporting evidence for any associated investigations and/or judicial proceedings.

The existing MPS process of obtaining medical reports and statements involves frontline police investigators attending hospitals in person which can be inefficient, protracted, time consuming and often takes medical professionals away from their core duties.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1211

The MPS/MOPAC Insurance Strategy requires to be approved by MOPAC in accordance with the Scheme of Consent and Delegation.

The existing 3 year Insurance Strategy was approved by MOPAC in 2019 and comes to an end this year. This paper recommends a new 3 year Insurance Strategy, which requires to be approved by the Deputy Mayor of Policing and Crime.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1221

This decision seeks approval of the cost of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services inspection into the Metropolitan Police Service, following the tragic deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor.



MOPAC has a statutory responsibility to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the MPS. The outcome of the inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor had an impact on the trust and confidence of Londoners, particularly the LGBTQ+ community and local people in Barking and Dagenham.
Whilst much has changed since those horrific murders in 2014/15, it is important that MOPAC seek independent assurance from HMICFRS regarding the investigation of death today by the MPS, to ensure lessons have been learnt.
The cost of the inspection is £216,000.

• Date signed: 11/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1245

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of three civil claims 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: 19/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1239

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of a claim 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: 16/06/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1223

This decision seeks approval to tender for two insurance policies and award the contracts.
Authority is required for insurance premium expenditure greater than the authority delegated by the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation; so requiring approval from the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
Within an Insurance Programme, MOPAC-MPS purchases two insurances policies that were the subject of a competitive tender 4 years ago and an award made under a long term agreement, subject to a limit of expenditure which has now been reached.

• Date signed: 13/07/22
• Date published: 19/09/23

This decision requests approval for the award of a framework agreement for the supply of Operational 5.56 ammunition. The request for award follows a competitive tender exercise in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has robustly tested as part of a tender process a wholly suitable ammunition to meet the armed policing challenges we face now and in the future.

The contract has an Estimated total value of £820,000 for the MPS and up to £3,270,000 nationally.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1297

As part of the current Mayor’s VAWG communications campaign, Have A Word, the Mayor has committed to providing access to an online toolkit promoting healthy relationships in schools. Following the successful Whole Schools Approach pilot in 4 Croydon schools, MOPAC has asked Tender Education and Arts to develop a VAWG Prevention online toolkit for secondary school teachers, to be published on the Have a Word webpage. To support the effective roll out of the VAWG Prevention Toolkit for teachers, MOPAC proposes to award grant funding to Tender Education and Arts.
The maximum value of the grant is £920,089 and it would run from October 2022 to March 2025. The payment of funding for Year 2 (July 2023 – March 2024) and Year 3 (April 2024 – March 2025) will be subject to a satisfactory evaluation to be completed by July 2023, which is the end of the academic year.

• Date signed: 30/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1267

This Decision seeks approval to extend MOPAC’s grant funding of the Adult Women’s Diversion Pilot for continued service delivery for a 8-week period covering 1st October 2022 to the 30th November 2022. This would enable the programme to continue to deliver until the new Co-Commissioned Pan-London Service commences (PCD 1156). This would ensure the Diversion Pilot’s total integration into the new service, preventing a break in the gender-specific, trauma-informed, needs-based and tailored services on diversion.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 19/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1295

The London Violence Reduction Unit is allocating Mayoral approved funding to enhance activity in boroughs, with families and in custody. This funding will be going to 4 separate programmes for commencement in April 2023. This will include enhancing the borough capacity building, which is hyper local activity to reduce violence, uplifting the allocated amount to parenting activity across London, rolling out the youth custody ‘reachable moments’ service across London & extending the delivery of the Divert App.
This will total £2,888,000 over a period of 1 year. The projects and programmes which are discussed in this Decision relate to PCDs 1149, 1147 & 1263.

• Date signed: 21/04/22
• Date published: 15/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1184

The Home Office have approved a UK shipment to Ukraine of police equipment that is no longer suitable for operational use. This is being co-ordinated by the National Police Co-ordination Centre (NPoCC) and every police force in the UK, including the MPS, has signed up to provide unused equipment.

As the MPS equipment is owned by MOPAC this decision is to obtain MOPAC approval for the MPS to donate as part of the wider UK policing response.

• Date signed: 28/02/23
• Date published: 04/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1369

This paper seeks approval to award a contract for the supply of stationery, small electrical goods and franking services. The proposal is for the award of a call-off contract for a term of 4 years from a Crown Commercial Services framework. The annual value of the call off contract is estimated at £1,750,000 which over a 4 year term is £7,000,000. The cost will be met from within existing MPS budgets.

• Date signed: 17/03/23
• Date published: 04/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1400

This decision seeks approval to accept additional funding from the Home Office in 2022-23 as follows:
£522,500 for the Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme in Financial Year 2022-23 for initial investment in the scoping of a Single Online Home Citizen Portal and
£460,000 for deliverables brought forward from next financial year to accelerate critical aspects of the DPC Delivery Roadmap.

• Date signed: 23/01/23
• Date published: 01/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1324

This paper seeks the approval of contract award for the provision of a cleaning service for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) buildings. The proposed contract term will be for an initial three-year term with two 2-year optional extensions. The initial term annual fixed price is £15,041,444 and the total up to seven year contract value (including estimated inflation) is £111,389,545. The cost will be funded from within the MPS existing budget.

• Date signed: 20/12/22
• Date published: 01/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1325

This paper seeks the approval for the re-procurement via restricted tender procedure of contracts to provide for the maintenance and inspections of lifts and roller shutter doors. The proposal is for a up to seven year contract term, an initial three term with two 2-year optional extensions. The estimated 7 year contract value is £13,934,142. The cost will be funded from within the existing MPS budget.

• Date signed: 20/04/23
• Date published: 01/09/23
• Reference code: PCD 1407

Since April 2022, the current iteration of the Your Choice programme has been delivering high intensity CBT therapeutic interventions to young people aged 11-17 who have been assessed to be at risk of/vulnerable to violence and exploitation. Funded by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), the programme is being evaluated as a randomised control trial (RCT), a gold standard evaluation that will enable the VRU to strengthen our evidence base on trauma-informed, therapeutic interventions, achieving positive outcomes for children and young people (CYP). The pilot phase of the RCT has now concluded, however, due to delays in delivery and consequently, evaluation timelines, the subsequent efficacy phase has not yet commenced. This means the programme is effectively suspended, with trained clinical teams unable to continue delivering services to CYP due to uncertainty of progression to efficacy and further funding. This transition phase will continue until programme evaluators have submitted their report to YEF and a decision on progression to efficacy has been made.
This current situation poses risks to the programme due to (a) trained practitioners standing down; (b) loss of clinical leads who brings CBT expertise to the programme; and (c) suspension of therapeutic service delivery to CYP. Cumulatively, these risks will also impact the ongoing RCT. To mitigate the risks, the VRU have proposed to match-fund £1,000,000 to provide essential, bridging support during this transition phase and to ensure that CYP are not left without critical support.
This proposal is to allocate £1,000,000 to allow the continuity of service provision across all local authority Your Choice teams (treatment and control groups) through a direct grant opportunity, allowing practitioners to continue their training and young people to continue accessing therapeutic service provision during the transition phase between pilot and efficacy.

• Date signed: 20/04/23
• Date published: 01/09/23

DMPC Decision PCD 1247 approved funding for projects in support of the Police and Crime Plan totalling £3.415m, this included £300k to deliver “MPS Officer Training – Trauma Informed and Rape Myth”. This decision seeks to approve to procure a 6-month contract to deliver Stalking Awareness Training at a maximum cost of £150k. This training will be primarily for the MPS, but with the intention that is could be accessible to CPS and the Probation Service, to support a more effective partnership approach to stalking. The training will improve awareness, identification and responses to stalking cases. This training is supportive in terms of delivery the Mayor’s VAWG strategy.