The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is a functional body of the Greater London Authority responsible for oversight of the Metropolitan Police.
It came into being on 16 January 2012 at midnight,[1] replacing the Metropolitan Police Authority, as envisaged by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
The current Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is Kaya Comer-Schwartz.
The office is headed by the Mayor of London who acts in a similar capacity to the police and crime commissioners elsewhere in England.
They are held to account by the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly.