Met Police Turnaround Plan: Industry Roundtable; Roundup

10 Mar 2023 01:50 PM

techUK was delighted to host Darren Scates, Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer at the Metropolitan Police (MPS), to provide an industry briefing of the institution's Turnaround Plan. The session covered, how the MPS will harness the power of digital technology and data, to provide a better service and deliver on the overarching mission of ‘More trust, Less Crime, High Standards'

Background to the Roadmap

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, launched the Met’s Turnaround Plan at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in January 2023. techUK, alongside other London leaders and stakeholders, joined the briefing to hear how the plan looks to refresh values with a particular focus on;

 Included in the plan is a call to complete the MPS’s survey.

Scale of the challenge

Trust is the foundation upon which consent and legitimacy for policing are built. As such, less crime through a combination of activities, including proactively preventing crime, investigating crimes effectively, protecting vulnerable people and places, targeting high volume and high harm offenders, local problem solving, and more.

Priorities

The Turnaround Plan outlines 9 priorities to improve policing activities in a variety of aspects, including capability to reduce crime, and ensure the MPS can deliver on More Trust, Less Crime, High Standards. They are a blend of medium-term priorities that will be delivered over the next two years, and longer-term changes which will initiate more fundamental transformation.

Digital Data and Technology Priorities

The focus remains on the application of data and digital platforms/systems to ensure highest harm perpetrators are the priority. This also includes multi-agency data sharing, preventing offenses, improving investigation access to information, and bringing perpetrators to justice. These can all be enhanced by enabling cross-administration data flows.

Data-Driven Delivery

Priority 8 of the Roadmap includes the design and implementation of a new data operating model, facilitating the data and information insight gathered in a way that benefits and interlinks with investigation processes.

Following the presentation from Darren Scates, attendees convened to provide a response to the Met Turnaround Plan’s Survey. Attendees were given an opportunity to share their thoughts, views and what they thought was missing from the plan. Responses are being captured by techUK both via the session and in written form. These responses are being shared with the Met Digital Team. If you have any questions or, want to understand how techUK is responding to the plan, please reach out using the details below. After the response has been submitted, techUK will be sharing the response with techUK members.

A link to the Turnaround Plan can be found here