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Gangs: Databases

Commons · Question 27575 · Tabled 30 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 4 Feb 2025

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Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on (a) the potential impact of its gang violence matrix on ethnic minority groups and (b) the steps it is taking to ensure that its policing p

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 4 Feb 2025

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...