Celebrating Sector Achievements - MET Police and the One Met Model

In June 2016, the Met set out on an ambitious fouryear transformation journey - the One Met Model. Its goal was to improve service delivery for London and invest in new and existing capabilities in the face of rising and more complex demand and fewer resources. The transformation portfolio included enterprise-wide business design, spanning people, process and technology and business change covering around 45,000 roles across the whole organisation. The portfolio consisted of 12 strategic programmes comprising nearly 100 projects and an investment of around £2bn. It was underpinned by three strategic objectives:

1) Making every community safer - giving more power and influence in every ward and borough through accountable and visible policing at every level.

2) A safer London - tackling the new and growing threats London faces, freeing up resource to deal with these challenges (e.g. cyber, youth and gang violence) and putting prevention at the heart of everything.

3) A transformed, modern and efficient Met that looks and feels like London and ensures that officers have the right skills, tools and approach to police London effectively. This included:

• investing in technology to ensure services are delivered in an efficient way.

• a shift in behaviours and culture, from the frontline to the back-office, to empower people at all ranks and grades to deliver smarter and more effective ways of working.

• creating a modern environment for staff and the public by rationalising the estate.

Progress in delivering against these strategic objectives has resulted in significant financial savings and has released assets to fund further transformation, including the development of the Met's digital capability. A few of the outcomes achieved to date include:

• a new, high-quality website more reflective of the digital society in which we live. It offers the ability to report crimes online as well as local information on crime data with linked crime prevention advice, details of the local police team and their activities and direct feeds from social media accounts.

• a new Telephone and Digital Investigation Unit, which now deals with nearly 50 per cent of all crime reported to the Met, resulting in reduced demand on emergency response teams, allowing them to focus their efforts more effectively.

• the brigading of local policing from 32 boroughs into 12 Basic Command Units (BCUs). The BCU model boosts safeguarding capability and preventative ward-based policing. It also provides a revised investigative model, with most crimes being investigated by first responders, leading to improved victim care and a more joined-up approach to safeguarding.

• significant efficiency savings in back office services, reducing 4,000 police staff roles and changing the delivery model for HR and Finance services supported by a new technology platform.

Although significant change has already been delivered, there is much more work ahead. The Transformation Directorate - an in-house team of more than 100 permanent employees and attached officers - played a central role in developing the organisation’s strategy beyond 2020, defining its long-term operational priorities, as well as the internal capabilities needed to provide the best service possible for the public.

The Met has transitioned from consultant-led design, planning and delivery of change to having its own team which is sector leading and with an ambition to be ‘world-class’. Through this it has created a centre of excellence which keeps the Met up to date and at the cutting edge of changes in policing demands, trends and innovation, whilst also providing resource, guidance and assurance to change programmes throughout their lifecycle. Most impressively, it developed this capability whilst continuing to design, plan and implement significant change.

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