Gangs: Databases
Commons · Question 27637 · 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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of identifying an independent body to safeguard data relating to the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix.
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...