Complaints about the Met can be referred to the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC). Both CGAN’s first attempt, in 2019, and the second case, which began in 2022, were eventually referred to MOPAC.

CGAN attempted an appeal through the Met’s internal complaints procedure and appealed to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). But the IOPC refused to consider the case. Despite knowing hundreds of thousands of, primarily black, people in the global south were being killed every year, the IOPC refused to investigate the Met’s decision and refused to explain why.

The only appeal body then open to CGAN was MOPAC but, in both the first (2019) and second attempts (2022), MOPAC refused to investigate the substance of the CGAN case. In both instances the decision by MOPAC took many months to arrive. All members of the London Assembly were informed of the extreme delay by MOPAC and were asked to intervene in the attempt to secure a reply.

The reply in 2021, on the first case, can be seen here.

The MOPAC reply on CGAN’s second case, took 5 months – arriving in January 2024. The letters to MOPAC and the January 2024 response are included within the updated submission to the ICC. See here.

In both cases, MOPAC failed to perform its oversight role, simply accepting what it was told by The Met.