Andrew Dismore

Below are additional answers to questions I asked in September.

Question No: 2015/3545

Andrew Dismore

What Metropolitan Police services are under consideration for privatisation?

Written response from the Mayor

The Commercial Strategy supports the delivery of the medium term financial strategy.  This will see MPS exploring a number of commercial approaches to ensure that back and middle office services are being operated in an as effective and economic way as possible and is currently made up of the following areas:

Corporate Real Estate – This is an outsourced service

Transport – This is an outsourced service

Business Support Services – payroll and pensions has previously been outsourced, and in October 2015 Finance, HR and Procurement transactional functions were outsourced to SSCL.

Logistics – the National Managed Uniform Service is currently at contract award stage, and will be implemented from April 2016.  Other logistical services are currently in the process of being scoped or are at various business case stages;

ICT Services – This is an outsourced service.

Command and Control – This is a contract for the Command and Control system, it is not an outsourced service.

Criminal Justice – This is currently being scoped and consists of a number of administrative and IT areas supporting prosecutions.

Policing Fraud

Question No: 2015/3546

Andrew Dismore

Are you satisfied with the performance of the Metropolitan Police in dealing with fraud?

Written response from the Mayor

I identified fraud as a priority in my business crime strategy, creating the Business Crime Change Board to drive forward improvement in the response to online fraud and increasing the Met’s capability to deal with fraud.

A significant investment has been made creating FALCON, providing the necessary expertise to investigate all reported cases where there are viable lines of enquiry. Recent evidence shows performance rates increasing with 814 arrests made and £1.1m in cash seized or confiscated.

I am also pleased that with the recent launch of the London Digital Security Centre, small and medium sized businesses can seek help to protect themselves against cyber risks and threats including frauds.

This is no time to be complacent and I look forward to further improvements in both enforcement and prevention over the coming years.