Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27635

Gangs: Databases

Tabled: 30 January 2025

Answered: 6 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix who have been convicted under joint enterprise laws.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...

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