Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27638

Gangs: Databases

Tabled: 30 January 2025
Answered: 6 February 2025
Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct the Metropolitan Police to delay the deletion of its Gangs Violence Matrix.

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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