This resource is from the Issues section. This section contains information about topical issues, with links to all relevant pages on the MPA website and elsewhere.

Sections available here:

• Issues
  • MPA partnerships
  • MPA cases
  • MPA scrutinies

Issues

This section contains information about topical issues, with links to all relevant pages on the MPA website and elsewhere.

• Budget and accounts
  • Budget factsheet
• Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate
• Deaths following police contact
• Domestic Violence Board
• Equality and diversity
• Estate matters
• Gun crime
• Mayor's questions
• Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC)
• Mental Health & policing - MPA/NHS joint review
• Morris Inquiry
• Police officer, staff and PCSO numbers
• Safer London Panel (Discontinued Apr 07)
• Statutory Performance Indicators (SPIs)
• Stop and Search
  • Go Wisely Stop and Search DVD
  • Stop and Search leaflet
  • Stops - Recommendation 61
  • Stops and Searches Monitoring Mechanism training manual

MPA partnerships

Now available through the partnerships section of this website including:

• Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs)
• Borough Community Engagement Groups (CEGs)
• Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs)
• London Race Hate Crime Forum (RHCF)

MPA cases

• Daniel Morgan
  MPA independent review of the investigations into this murder
• Gurpal Virdi
  MPA inquiry into the case against PS Gurpal Virdi

MPA scrutinies

The MPA has a duty to monitor the performance of the MPS and secure continuous improvement in the service provided to the people of London. To help it carry out these responsibilities the Authority undertakes in-depth projects, or scrutinies, into specific aspects of MPS performance.

• Youth Scrutiny
  Scrutiny focusing on the causes, effects and impacts of young people’s involvement in crime as victims, witnesses and perpetrators and how this influences their interactions and relationships with the MPS.
• Crime data recording scrutiny - February 2008
  Scrutiny examining the accuracy of MPS crime recording.
• Succession planning and career development scrutiny - October 2007
  A short scrutiny to ensure that the Met’s senior officers of the future continue to be of the highest calibre.
• Drugs Scrutiny - May 2007
  The review findings were intended to directly influence MPS policies and procedures in dealing with people involved in drugs.
• Scrutiny of MPS media and communications - April 2007
  A short scrutiny into the approach taken by the MPS to managing media and communications.
• Mental Health & policing - MPA/NHS joint review - October 2005
  An MPA joint review with key partners in the NHS, containing 33 recommendations to ensure the police response to Londoners experiencing mental illness is appropriate.
• Stop and Search Scrutiny - May 2004
  Presents 55 recommendations on ways in which stop and search practice can move forward.
• Gun Crime Scrutiny - February 2004
  Focuses on the MPS’ strategic response to gun crime rather than the immediate operational response to an armed incident.
• Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships Scrutiny (CDRPs) - January 2003
  Scrutiny on the contribution the MPS makes to CDRPs and the effectiveness of this contribution across London.
• Rape Investigation and Victim Care - April 2002
  Presents 38 recommendations aimed at improving rape investigation and victim care.

The following pages on the MPA website are relevant:

• MPA occasional papers
  Series of occasional papers on community engagement
• About the MPA
• Contact us
• Careers at MPA
• Careers at MPS
• Freedom of Information
  Sets out information we routinely make publicly available and how members of the public can ask the MPA for other information.

The following external websites are relevant:

• Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
• MPS - Safer Neighbourhoods Scheme
• MPS - C3i
  Command Control Communication & Information