Sadiq Khan has been blasted for taking millions much pounds from his policing fund to prosecute much pen-pushers portion failing to chopped convulsive crime.
New figures amusement the fig of back-office unit moving connected finance, probe and section projects has astir doubled connected the Labour mayor's watch.
Just earlier helium came to powerfulness successful 2016, determination were 113 members of unit successful the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), costing taxpayers £7.8m a year.
But caller figures seen by the Mail uncover that by the extremity of March 2023, the payroll had gone up to 205 employees - astatine a outgo of £17.5m.
Yet transgression has soared successful the superior implicit the aforesaid period.
Sadiq Khan has been blasted for taking millions much pounds from his policing fund to prosecute much pen-pushers portion failing to chopped convulsive crime
Susan Hall, Conservative challenger for City Hall astatine adjacent month's predetermination said transgression has soared successful London
Office for National Statistics figures amusement the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) recorded 738,501 full offences including 185,675 of unit against the idiosyncratic successful the twelvemonth to March 2016.
By March past twelvemonth full offences had soared by 19 per cent to scope 880,284 portion unit against the idiosyncratic was 30 per cent higher astatine 240,924.
Last nighttime Susan Hall, Mr Khan's Conservative challenger for City Hall astatine adjacent month's election, told the Mail: 'Crime has soared retired of power nether Sadiq Khan, and yet helium is wasting millions of pounds that should beryllium going into putting much bobbies connected the beat.
'I americium listening to Londoners and arsenic Mayor, I volition marque our metropolis safer. I volition enlistee 1,500 constabulary officers, make 2 caller bases successful each borough, and bring backmost borough-based policing.'
The best-paid worker wrong MOPAC - which oversees Scotland Yard arsenic good arsenic commissioning section projects to chopped transgression and enactment victims - is main enforcement Diana Luchford, whose wage was £159,697 successful 2022-23.
Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Sophie Linden was paid £135,797 portion Chief Financial Officer Amana Humayun got £133,100.
New figures amusement the fig of back-office unit moving connected finance, probe and section projects has astir doubled connected the Labour mayor's ticker (stock image)
Julie Norgrove, Director of Audit, Risk and Assurance, was paid £123,412 portion Kenny Bowie, Director of Strategy and MPS Oversight, was paid £122,900, arsenic was Director of Commissioning and Partnerships William Balakrishnan.
A unit operation diagram published by MOPAC shows that beneath its Senior Management Team it has 20 radical moving successful HR, backstage offices and successful secretariat roles; much than 30 successful strategy, argumentation and oversight of Scotland Yard, 25 successful audit, hazard and assurance; positive dozens much commissioning programmes tally by charities and successful probe and investigation roles.
MOPAC's £17.5m staffing measure makes up a important proportionality of its £59m moving costs, which comes retired of the £4.2bn fund that besides covers the Met itself.
Yet portion Mayor Khan has overseen an astir doubling of the MOPAC payroll, helium has besides faced disapproval for failing to usage other Government currency to get much officers connected the frontline warring crime.
He failed to conscionable recruitment targets and truthful had to springiness £60m backmost to the Home Office portion leaving the Met 1,000 officers short.
A spokesperson for Mr Khan said: 'This Mayoral predetermination is simply a adjacent two-horse contention betwixt Sadiq investing successful much constabulary officers and younker clubs successful London, oregon the hard-right Tory campaigner who has backed £1bn cuts to the Met constabulary successful existent presumption since 2010, and supported £1bn of cuts to younker services crossed the county.
'A bulk of the other unit are progressive successful the caller Violence Reduction Unit acceptable up successful 2019, which has done captious enactment supporting 150,000 young radical implicit the past 2 years – providing younker workers, after-school support, mentoring, sporting activity, and enactment for parents.
'It besides funds younker workers embedded successful large Trauma Centres and A&Es crossed the capital, supporting young radical astatine their astir vulnerable.
'Since 2018, MOPAC has besides taken connected captious caller responsibilities delivering accommodation for survivors of home abuse, and improving the probe and prosecution of rape.
'The Mayor has invested grounds amounts successful tackling unit against women and girls.'
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