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Gangs: Databases

Commons · Question 27635 · Tabled 30 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 6 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 6 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...