community safety programme board priorities stuart priestley – chief community safety officer

Community Safety Programme Board Priorities

Stuart Priestley – Chief Community Safety Officer


Presentation Overview:

• Community Safety Programme Board

• Priorities

• Developing plans


Community Safety Programme Board:

• What?

• Who?

• How?

• Why have priorities?

• What about other crime?

• Crime and Community Safety Plan 2015/2016


Priorities 2015 / 2016:

1. Preventing any emerging serious youth violence

2. Violence against women and girls

3. Repeat and vulnerable victims and locations of antisocial behaviour and hate crime

4. Theft of motor vehicles


Priority 1: Preventing any emerging serious youth violence

What is it?

A violent act that inflicts serious injury. Intimidation, threat or coercion with the intent of escalating violence between young people up to the age of 25 (victim or offender).

Why a priority?

• Increases in reports – Serious Youth Violence and Youth Violence up 21% April – December 2014

• Impact of harm on individuals, families and communities is high


Priority 1: Preventing any emerging serious youth violence

Aim:

To prevent serious youth violence and gang crime by:• diverting, disrupting and enforcing against known offenders; whilst • preventing those at risk of serious youth violence and gang involvement becoming tomorrow’s

offenders.

Response:• Managing Risk• Prevention programmes • Police Serious Violence Team• Communities


Priority 2: Violence against women and girls

What is it?

Domestic abuse, sexual offences and exploitation, stalking and

harassment, ‘honour-based’ violence, forced marriage and female genital

mutilation, prostitution and trafficking

Why a priority?

• Increases in reports – Domestic Violence 16%); All sexual offences 27% (April – Dec 2014)

• Impact of harm on individuals and families


Priority 2: Violence against women and girls

Response:

• New services across RBKC, LBHF, WCC – Coordination and community based support services for victims and their families

• Coordinated Community Response model

• Victims and their families at the centre of our approach

• Hold perpetrators to account

• Raise awareness through community events and communication campaigns


Priority 3: Repeat and vulnerable victims and locations of antisocial behaviour and hate crime

What is it?

Victims who may be vulnerable due to disability, age, mental illness or repeat victimisation, as well as locations experiencing persistent problems.

Why a priority?

•Increases in reports of hate crime

•Impact of harm on individuals and families


Priority 3: Repeat and vulnerable victims and locations of antisocial behaviour and hate crime

Response:

• Kensington and Chelsea Community Policing Team

• Manage risk for vulnerable victims – Community MARAC

• Support victims living in the community – victim advocate, Target Hardening

• Partnerships to address location based issues – problem solving

• Events and campaigns


Priority 4: Theft of motor vehicle crime

What is it?

Theft of any motor vehicle – car, van, motor bikes and scooters

Why a priority?

• Increases in reports of thefts of motor vehicles: 66% April – Dec 2014


Priority 4: Theft of motor vehicle crime

Response:

• Police-led

• Understand the problem: high value cars and mopeds

• Local police work with central unit to tackle organised criminal gangs and known offenders

• Encourage use of security measures by owners via communication campaigns


Next steps:

• Crime and Community Safety Plan 2015/16 – April

• Performance reviewed regularly at Board

Any questions?

community safety programme board priorities stuart priestley – chief community safety officer

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