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Strategic Assessment Review

2014 – 2015

Safer Islington Partnership

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TITLE & VERSION SAFER ISLINGTON PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIC

ASSESSMENT REVIEW 2014_2015

Authors Islington CSPU Intelligence Team

Organisation London Borough of Islington and Metropolitan Police,

Islington

Summary/Purpose 2014-15 Strategic Assessment

Protective Marking Public Version

Date Created March 2014

Review Date September 2014

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Contents

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Executive Summary ........................................................................... 4

Current Control Strategy for 2013 - 2014.......................................... 5

Review of the Borough Crime Picture……........................................... 6

Amendment of Control Strategy ...................................................... 17

Next Steps …..................................................................................... 18

Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………19

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Executive Summary

Following a review of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998) and the Police and Justice Act (2006), a

requirement was placed on Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to produce an annual

strategic assessment of crime and disorder with a mid-year review. This is the Safer Islington

Partnerships (SIP) seventh strategic assessment, the aim of which is to analyse the current strategic

priorities, establish an accurate picture of crime and disorder and propose any changes to the

control strategy for the 2014 – 2015 financial year.

During January 2013 to December 2013 Islington saw a 12% decrease in overall Total Notifiable

Offences (TNO) compared to the previous twelve months. This decrease means a reversal in the

trend of rising overall crime seen in 2012. This decrease is a combination of reductions across most

crime types on the borough.

The violence portfolio has also seen a decrease of 10% - with decreases seen in most areas of

violence such as domestic violence (DV), serious youth violence (SYV) and alcohol violence. Serious

violence, although showing significant increase is a direct result of Home Office changes to the

classification of the level of injury needed to be sustained to constitute a serious offence.

There have been significant reductions seen in most areas of the property crime portfolio too –

notably robbery, residential burglary and other theft. However continuous year-on-year increases in

theft person offences (driven by theft snatch) and the recent rise in non-residential burglary are the

areas of current concern.

The revised control strategy for 2013 – 2014 focused on five key priorities, namely mobile phone

crime, young gangs and groups, drugs markets, crimes against businesses and alcohol & the night

time economy with violence against women and girls, cross border issues, early intervention,

offender management, prevent and anti-social behaviour as the crosscutting themes. As a result of

analysing the borough crime picture and consideration of other performance influencing factors

there have been no recommended changes to this – however, there have been a few changes in the

key crime & disorder issues contributing to the borough crime picture which are detailed below and

will require a multi-partnership approach to tackling.

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Robbery / Theft Person Theft Snatch Young Offenders Caledonian Road and surrounding area

Second Hand Markets Finsbury Park Finsbury Park Estates and surrounding areas

EC Area EC and surrounding area

The Triangle

Canonbury Road Area

Non Res in the EC area Angel

Theft Clerkenwell

Most targeted Premises Nags Head

Top Licensed Premises

Anti-Social Behaviour

Offender Management

Violence Against Women and Girls

Early Interventions

Cross Border Issues

Prevent

Crimes Against Businesses

Cross Cutting Themes

Alcohol and Night Time Economy

Drug MarketsYoung Gangs and GroupsMobile Phone Crime

Current Control Strategy 2013 – 2014

The 2013-2014 Islington Control Strategy focused on five main priorities; namely Mobile Phone

Crime, Young Gangs & Groups, Drugs Markets, Crimes Against Businesses and the Alcohol & Night

Time Economy. Prior work and analysis indicated that underlying all of these priorities were issues

surrounding Violence Against Women & Girls, Cross Border Issues, Early Intervention, Offender

Management, Prevent and Anti-Social Behaviour. Each priority has a number of key problems driving

the issue on borough. These have been listed below each and have a multi-agency work strand

attached to each (development plan)

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Borough Crime Picture Review

Between January 2013 and December 2013 Islington had a total of 24,593 Notifiable Offences,

representing a 12% decrease in crime levels compared to the previous twelve month period. This is

one of the most significant total crime reductions recorded on the borough and is a reversal of the

increasing overall crime trend seen throughout 2012/13. In Apr 2013 MOPAC challenged each

London borough to reduce seven types of crime by 20% over four years. The table below displays

the current performance for Islington in relation to these seven crime types, highlighting areas of

positive performance such as the reduction in robbery and violence with injury and the increase in

theft person offences.

Crime Type Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

Difference % change Direction of Travel

Total Notifiable Offences 28017 24593 -3424 -12 ↓

MOPAC 7 Offences 13428 13031 -397 -3 ↓

Violence With Injury Offences 1847 1722 -125 -7 ↓

Burglary (total) Offences 2430 2412 -18 -1 ↓

Robbery Offences 1197 963 -234 -20 ↓

Theft From MV Offences 1812 1705 -107 -6 ↓

Theft From Person Offences 3646 3961 315 9 ↑

Theft/Taking Of MV Offences 601 633 32 5 →

Criminal Damage Offences 1895 1635 -260 -14 ↓

Domestic Incidents 3893 3767 -126 -3 ↓

Domestic Offences 1625 1547 -78 -5 ↓

DV VWI Offences 539 485 -54 -10 ↓

Crime performance in Islington has been very encouraging, with reductions in five of the seven

target MOPAC areas and in crime levels overall. The main challenge remains around Theft Person

Offences which have been increasing on the borough for nearly five years now. The graph illustrates

this pictorially.

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This is the most significant risk area for the borough in terms of achieving the MOPAC reduction

target, given its contribution to the overall level (currently 30.4%).

A full breakdown of performance against all crime types is shown in Appendix 1. The other area of

concern is the significant increase in Non-Residential Burglary offences (14%) which if it continues

could soon affect the overall burglary performance on the borough.

Violent Crime

Violent crime in Islington has decreased by 10% between January 2013 and December 2013 when

compared to the previous twelve months. This is a reversal of the trend seen in 2012 where

increases of over 25% in Domestic Violence (DV) levels meant overall violent crime also rose.

However, in 2013 the number of DV incidences, offences and more significantly violence with injury

levels fell by 3%, 5% and 10% respectively. Hence not only the volume incidents but also the severity

offences have been decreasing over the last 12 months.

Last year SIP authorised the creation of a panel to focus on offender management and create

referral pathways for those working with the perpetrators of DV. This panel meeting has been

running for approximately six months and an initial evaluation highlighted the effective partnership

information sharing and working protocols existing here. With the introduction of a coordinator to

facilitate both this panel and the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC - panel to tackle

the risk posed to DV victims) the aim is to improve the working relationships and referral pathways

for those involved in DV across the borough, in particular to increase the referral rate from key front

line agencies where this rate is deemed significantly lower than expected. The current MARAC

process was recently reviewed and highlighted as good practice across London. Focus was placed

over the last 12 months on raising the awareness across agencies of the Violence Against Women

and Girls agenda which has increased the understanding and referral rates across agencies, in

particular in relation to Female Genital Mutilation and Child Sexual Exploitation.

The first Multi-Agency Sexual Exploitation panel (MASE) will be launched at the end of January 2014

focusing on young girls at risk of / are being sexually exploited. This will run in tandem with the

current Bronze panel (targeting young people committing serious violence) and there is a strong

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partnership will that this new panel will be able to deal more effectively with cases of this nature

and identify possible links and common themes between them which can be dealt with at a more

strategic level.

Sex offences have seen a 3% increase over the last year which is largely linked to victims being more

confident to report historic offences in light of the publicity recently afforded to very high profile

celebrity cases. A challenge for the borough over the next 12 months is the continuation of the

North London Rape Crisis Provision when further financial pressures arise.

Serious violence, although showing significant increase is a direct result of Home Office changes to

the classification of the level of injury needed to be sustained to constitute a serious offence.

Other areas of violent crime have again seen significant decreases over the last 12 months - Serious

Youth Violence (14%), Knife (35%) and Gun Crime (3%). This is again largely due to targeted

enforcement, prevention and engagement work that has been undertaken against gangs and

individuals who commit violence and robbery operating on the borough. Since Apr 2013 there has

been relatively little gang violence or other gang crime in the borough that has come to notice and

serious youth violence has been falling since 2011. The significant gang that operated in the north of

the borough was virtually been disbanded due to the number of members imprisoned for offences in

connection to a murder or being moved / re-housed away from Islington. Regular monitoring is in

place to track any individuals who attempt to “step up” and take over this territory and drugs

market.

Only two gangs are thought to be “active” on the borough – one in Finsbury Park and the other

operating in the EC area. Both are currently the focus of targeted enforcement and interventions

from a variety of agencies including the new police Gangs Unit and Job Centre Plus who, in

partnership with others, ran the first Jobs Fair for gang members this month (January 2014). At least

six known gang nominals attended and signed up for various job-seeking activities and further

similar job fairs are planned across the borough throughout 2014.

The Home Office Ending Gang Violence Peer Review (December 2012) gave Islington excellent

feedback around the work currently undertaken to tackle gangs and serious youth violence, with the

Bronze Group (mentioned earlier) being identified as good practice nationwide and is now

referenced in the MPS Gangs Handbook. The introduction of the 18-24 transitions team who work

with the borough’s top gang members in this age range and attempt to divert them away from gang

life, has also been very successful in tackling gang crime and violence overall. An evaluation on

progress of this team is expected later this year.

The challenge for the borough this year in this area is to maintain the excellent reductions achieved

in light of tighter budget constraints and other external influences such as Transforming

Rehabilitation (discussed later).

Alcohol-related violence (15%) and alcohol crime (20%) continue to decrease across the borough.

However, alcohol related call outs to the London Ambulance Service increased 14% to 2118 (Apr 13

to Dec 13). This suggests there are still significant issues with alcohol consumption on the borough

affecting many areas of the partnership’s business as well as community safety - and possibly a

significant volume of un-reporting of this type of crime. Stronger links with the health sector remain

a priority to allow an even greater understanding and partnership response to dealing with issues

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connected to alcohol and substance misuse overall. The possible introduction of the Late Night Levy,

which is currently in the consultation stage, could generate income to partners to help tackle this

issue and the eventual roll out of the victims of violence project (mark three) with the Whittington

Hospital should hopefully improve the identification and referral rate of victims previously

unidentified.

Property Crime

Crime involving the theft of a mobile phone continues to drive a vast majority of crime on the

borough. This type of crime now accounts for nearly 25% of all crime on the borough over the last

12 months.

As stated above, Theft Person offences (9% increase) continues to be the main priority for the

borough and a significant concern for the MPS London wide. Theft Person is derived of two

subcategories - Theft Snatch and Theft Pickpocket. Theft Snatch has increased by 21% over the last

12 months while Theft Pickpocket has decreased by 6% over the same period. The decrease in

pickpocket is largely due to the focused activity of police and partners working with local businesses

to provide crime prevention advice for customers and taking steps to make it more difficult for

perpetrators to steal items. Offender management has placed a key role too in relation to gaining

and enforcing suitable judicial restrictions on offenders, in particular those who do not reside on the

borough including working with the immigration service to target offenders who do not have

permission to remain in the country. The focused work with businesses has also lead to a reduction

of Other Theft offences (24%) which are generally similar in nature. This fall in Other Theft has been

the major contributor to the reduction in overall crime levels as it contributes the biggest

percentage of total.

Theft Snatch is clearly the boroughs crime of concern and is the key risk area in achieving the

MOPAC reduction target stated earlier. It now accounts for 60% of overall Theft Person offences

which is up from 57% six months ago. This offence type remains driven by young people snatching

smartphones (mainly I-Phones) from victims while they use them, with the summer months

witnessing the highest levels of offences ever seen on the borough. The offender is generally on a

pedal cycle but the use of mopeds in this type of offence has increased considerably over the last

month or so having previously reduced. This has contributed to the 5% increase in theft of motor

vehicles on the borough which are mainly two-wheeled vehicles being stolen for use in either these

theft snatch offences or non-residential burglaries (described below). Islington offenders are still

responsible for a significant proportion of similar offences in neighbouring boroughs and further

afield. Analysis to understand the stolen goods market in existence in the borough continues with

action being taken to disrupt this. There remains a high number of offenders involved in this type of

crime which covers the most prolific to first time offenders - also suggesting that peer sharing of this

practice is occurring. It is this issue that is believed to have caused the significant increase in re-

offending rates seen in the Youth Offending Service (YOS) in 2013 where approximately half of the

young offenders being tracked have gone on to re-offend.

A variety of multiagency initiatives are aligned to tackling this issue including:

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Proactive targeted policing operations particularly successful in during November and

December 2013 and leading to a significant reduction of offences in the EC area

Police, Courts and Crown Prosecution Service launching an Enhanced Sentencing Scheme for

Theft Snatch offenders

Achilles Heel process now launched to explore the range of partnership enforcement

options available to help tackle the offending of those deemed to be committing the most

crime or influencing others. The focus has been on theft snatch offenders and gang

members

The Bronze group has now been adapted to deal with Theft Snatch offenders as well as

those committing serious violence

A cross borough policing team has been introduced to target those offending across

numerous boroughs

Burglary has seen a slight reduction (1%) over the last twelve months – which has been contrasted

by the reduction in residential offences (11%) but the increase in Non-Residential offences (14%).

The biggest success in residential burglary has been the reduction in offences north of the Camden

Road / Seven Sisters Road. Previously this area accounted for over 60% of the overall residential

burglaries committed on the borough. That figures now stands at approximately 35% and is largely

due to the crime prevention and Simple to Start methodology applied to the key streets and areas

suffering disproportionately high levels of offences. The main area of concern for residential

burglaries has been the Mildmay and Highbury East wards for the last six to eight months. This is

believed to be linked to the number of bail hostels / approved premises located in the area that host

a large number of the borough’s prolific offenders. Improving relationships with these venues has

been a focus of the offender management work over the last few months and this will continue over

the forthcoming year.

Non-residential burglary increases were largely driven by office venues being targeted for their

computer equipment overnight in the EC area during the first eight months or so of the year. The

South Neighbourhood policing team undertook a significant amount of work with key partners and

local businesses to attempt to make vulnerable premises more secure, undertake penetration tests

(testing security checks conducted by the businesses at various entry points) and utilise traceable

liquid technology. This work was rolled out across neighbouring boroughs who were also suffering

similar issues and was joined up with offender targeting work such as use of ANPR cameras to track

motorbikes / mopeds of perpetrators in and out of the area. The net effect has been a significant

reduction in this type of offences for the last third of the year.

The main area of concern in this type of crime is currently pedal cycles being stolen from communal

hallways and sheds. Due to the nature of this crime, this contributes to both the Non-Residential and

Residential totals and is spread across the borough. The focus for the coming year is to develop a

multi-agency response involving the police, council and relevant registered landlords to tackle this

issue.

All other types of property crime are showing varying degrees of reduction. This suggests that the

rise in thefts possibly expected as a result of austerity and benefit cuts has still not currently been

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witnessed. Further monitoring and analysis will take place over the coming year, focusing on socio-

crimes such as shoplifting to examine if there are any changes seen.

The decreases witnessed across most property crime categories are testament to the success in the

Offender Management approach adopted on the borough. The Integrated Offender Management

(IOM) scheme won a national Probation award for the multi-agency work undertaken and the

improvement in the number of offenders accessing education, training and employment. There has

also been a reduction in offending across all offender cohorts currently managed on the borough.

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

The key ASB issues being reported through either the police 101 or the council’s ASB reporting line

relate to either rowdy / inconsiderate behaviour or neighbour disputes which each account for

approximately a third of the overall complaints in 2013. Temporally, the majority of calls (again a

third) are received in the evenings between 2000 and midnight. Over 50% of calls originate from

residents in social housing. Improving the relationships with the numerous registered social

landlords (RSLs) in the borough and joining up responses to tackling issues as they occur is a key

strand of the work in this area for the future, including the potential of selling council ASB services to

RSLs such as the Out of Hours Response Team who attend ASB calls and attempt to deal with them.

There remains a clear disparity with the number of calls being received per ward, with the highest

(Clerkenwell) suffering three times as many calls as the lowest (St Georges) – yet residents in St

Georges’ and Mildmay (also fairly low levels of crime and ASB recorded) have the lowest level of

confidence in police and community safety (PAS survey results). The reasons need exploring further

but are likely to be connected to the constant crime prevention material delivered in this area

(residential burglary and motor vehicle crime hotspot in St Georges and residential burglary and

youth violence / potential gangs issue in Mildmay) and could potentially benefit from some more

targeted communications. The issues in Clerkenwell stem from a mix of transport hub issues from

Kings Cross, street population linked to No Second Night Out and youth issues connected to theft

snatch offenders and EC gang members.

Two main areas of concern have been seen over the last 12 months, both for mainly youth ASB

issues: The Triangle in EC1 and the area around Canonbury Road N1. The Triangle has been an ASB

hotspot on the borough for over a year, generated by residents calling about young people hanging

about, dealing drugs and being abusive. On a number of occasions when officers (either police or

ASB response) have attended they have had items thrown at them as the young people run off. A

number of calls also related to street population issues mainly focused against one particular couple

but this issue has been resolved. There are a number of repeat callers located here which also

contribute to the overall hotspot seen. This area has been the south neighbourhood policing team

and the south MAGPI (multi-agency panel tackling low level crime and ASB) key priority area over

the last few months and will remain so into the next financial year.

The area around Canonbury Road has arisen over the last six months or so when a large number of

young people began congregating outside a number of addresses where known offending families

were residing. This manifested into general ASB, drug taking / dealing and nuisance for residents and

leading to the area becoming of concern for the borough. The young people included a number of

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prolific theft snatch offenders who would use this area as their “base” before going off to commit

snatch offences in the surrounding area (which has lead this surrounding area to become the main

theft snatch area on the borough). Due to the nature of the offending (being a key borough priority)

this has led to a vast amount of partnership activity directed here including various policing

operations, tenancy action, youth worker deployments and targeted Achilles Heel work (described

earlier). This has had a positive impact in terms of reducing the ASB seen here but there is a concern

that the problem has shifted to a degree to New North Road nearby. This area of work remains a

priority for the partnership going into the next year.

The new ASB & Community Engagement subgroup has helped shape the intelligence sharing

processes designed to improve the short and long terms tasking of resources. Community Safety

officers now brief the Out of Hours ASB officers on a weekly basis to ensure they understand the

current borough issues and develop the feedback loop for improving the information flow.

A significant challenge remains around the identification and multi-agency response in dealing with

repeat callers and in particular vulnerable victims. The ASB Action Group (ASBAG) has significantly

improved the partnerships effectiveness with dealing with repeat ASB callers, including finally linking

mental health services in with this agenda. The partnership commitment for the forthcoming year is

to convert the ASBAG into a Community MARAC (learning from the Ealing approach) which will

incorporate vulnerable adults who are linked to the community safety agenda. This will involve

rolling out the use of vulnerability risk assessment forms across the partnership and improving the

number and quality of the referrals made. Mental Health services will be instrumental in making this

a success and hence further negotiation is required regarding the wealth of experience and expertise

they can bring to the table. The new forum will no doubt present some challenges for the

partnership to work through around dealing with the vulnerabilities presented but also highlight key

opportunities for closer working between agencies and potential shared service benefits.

Part of the MOPAC challenge over the next four years is to increase public confidence in policing and

community safety by 20%. In response Islington police have introduced a new Confidence Plan that,

through the ASB & Community Engagement subgroup, now needs to be driven across the

partnership. The focus of the plan is based on improved engagement and fairness, which

incorporates Stop & Search (S&S). A vast amount of partnership work has been directed to examine

the stop and search process currently employed on the borough, leading to refined targets for S&S

outcomes, clarity of expectation for officers and those being stopped and clearer accountability and

supervision. The overall aim was to attempt to rectify the disproportionality seen in recent S&S

performance figures. This has led to a significant improvement in the whole S&S process with the

latest figures being very encouraging (figures available on request).

The proposed new ASB Bill is currently being discussed by the current Government which, if agreed,

will come into force in the Autumn of 2014. The aim of this bill is to drastically reduce the number of

ASB powers and legislation currently in existence and simplify it under new powers. Should this be

the case there will need to be discussions and agreements across all levels of partners involved in SIP

to sign off how Islington will adopt the new powers, with significant input from legal partners. As

before, this will create a number of challenges and opportunities for tackling ASB differently and

potentially more effectively.

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Fairness & Equalities

Fairness and Equality is one of Islington Council’s underlying objectives. In the community safety

arena this has been focused around reducing the number of young black people involved in stop

and search by 20% and of those stopped, increasing the proportion where there are ground for

arrest to at least 20%.

Through a variety of tactics and partnership initiatives search on young black people has fallen 43%

in 2013 in comparison to 2012. When compared to the 2012 figure it is possible to see an

improvement in level of arrest rates for young black men for the 10-17 age group for all quarters.

However, none of the quarters meet the 20% target. This is in contrast to the 18-24 age group which

meets the 20% target for all quarters apart from July to September. These figures demonstrate that

although there are significant improvements in increasing the rate of justifiable stops this has not

been consistent for the different age groups and that more work needs to be done in relation to

increasing the level of justifiable stop and searches for 10 to 17 year olds.

Further engagement with local BME groups and community representatives has highlighted

concerns around religious hate crime, particularly around harassment faced by many Muslim

women. Although such reports are rarely made to the police the anecdotal information available to

the partnership suggests that this is a key issue for the community and during 2014/15 the SIP will

support work to engage the affected communities and groups to build trust and encourage

reporting.

Financial and Other Possible Influencing Factors

Significant budget pressures for all members of the Safer Islington Partnership (and other key

agencies) remain a major challenge for achieving crime reduction and other community safety

targets over the next year and beyond. The loss of a number of grants, and potential cuts in core

funding is likely to result in a number of current projects being decommissioned and closer working

relationships and shared services / commissioning practices will become even more crucial.

The removal of police local intelligence units in February 2014 will present a significant challenge

and processes are currently being developed to minimise the effect this will have on the excellent

information sharing practices currently in place. These include upskilling community safety

intelligence staff to use MPS systems and forging close links with the new Neighbourhood

Intelligence Hub for North London which will cover Islington.

The launch of new technologies (such as any new smartphone) could push phone crime levels yet

higher if the market demand remains. Equally, more sophisticated security, such as fingerprint

recognition, may help to reduce levels if a counter measure is not quickly discovered.

The effects of Government legislation such as the benefit cap, universal credit, rental arrangement

changes and bedroom tax could see a change to the social make-up of the borough as families may

be forced to move to more affordable accommodation. This will present both opportunities and

challenges around managing and tracking troubled and problem families. Achilles Heel will focus a

vast amount of effort in influencing behaviour using these powers.

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The Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme is due to launch this year which will see the current

Probation Service no longer exist and be replaced by a National Probation Service (NPS) and

Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). This will mean offenders deemed high risk will be

managed by the NPS and all other offenders (who have spent any time in prison) will be managed by

the CRCs – which have yet to be announced and will follow once the Government has agreed who

the Primary Contractors are. These will then commission the CRCs locally. The CRCs will potentially

have no / limited knowledge of dealing with offenders or Islington’s local crime issues so will need

significant partnership help to adapt to the challenges faced and fit in to the current offender

management arrangements currently in place. The majority of offenders currently managed by our

offender cohorts (gangs, Bronze, prolific offenders, etc) will be managed by the CRCs meaning the

partnership will need to adopt new offender management working practices to take account of the

CRC transitions and also re-evaluate how current operating models that are based in Probation (such

as the IOM and 18-24 Transitions Team) will then function.

Linked to the TR programme is the potential Resettlement Agenda for Prisons which, if given the go

ahead will mean HMP Pentonville and HMP Holloway will house Islington offenders for a period of

time prior to their release (currently offenders are transferred to a number of prisons nationwide

and will be released directly from these). This will cause the prison service a number of issues,

particularly in relation to managing the high levels of offenders already passing through and

supporting the courts locally. However, it would also present the borough some real benefit

potential in being able to undertake targeted re-settlement work with offenders prior to their

release. Announcements on the resettlement agenda are due to be made later this year.

Islington has been identified as a Prevent borough by the Home Office, meaning it is seen as a

borough that can contribute significantly towards preventing violent extremism and in particular

terrorism. One of the main issues currently faced by the borough is the crisis in Syria and how young

people on the borough express their concerns and anxieties in connection with this. Recent incidents

have shown that there have been a number of believed isolated cases where Islington residents

have travelled to Syria to attempt to influence the issue, either by humanitarian means or to join the

fight. This issue has become one of the main areas of focus for the new Prevent Network Forum

(represented by a diverse cross section of the Islington community) and will be a key area of the

borough Prevent work in the forthcoming year.

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Robbery / Theft Person Theft Snatch Young Offenders Caledonian Road and surrounding area

Second Hand Markets Serious Youth Violence Finsbury Park Estates and surrounding areas

Finsbury Park EC and surrounding area

EC Area

The Triangle

Canonbury Road Area

Non Res in the EC area Angel

Theft Clerkenwell

Most targeted Premises Nags Head

Top Licensed Premises

Anti-Social Behaviour

Offender Management

Violence Against Women and Girls

Early Interventions

Cross Border Issues

Prevent

Crimes Against Businesses

Cross Cutting Themes

Alcohol and Night Time Economy

Drug MarketsYoung Gangs and GroupsMobile Phone Crime

Amended Control Strategy 2014 – 2015

The below diagram is an illustrative representation for the proposed Control Strategy for Islington

for the 2014-15 financial year. This is based on the changes in the current Borough Crime Picture

explained above.

Hence the Control Strategy will continue to consist of five strands:

Mobile Phone Crime

Youth Gangs & Groups

Drugs Markets

Crimes Against Businesses

Alcohol & Night Time Economy

There are six cutting themes spanning these strands:

Anti-Social Behaviour

Offender Management

Violence Against Women & Girls

Early Intervention

Cross Border Issues

Prevent (extremism)

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Next Steps The proposed minor changes to the current Control Strategy need to be agreed by the Safer Islington

Partnership Strategic Board. If accepted, owners for these strands need to be agreed and tasked

with the creation / adaption of a multi-agency partnership plan to tackle the issue.

The Borough Crime Picture, and hence the Control Strategy will be reviewed and evaluated in

September 2014 during the Strategic Assessment Mid-Year Review.

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Appendix Appendix 1: Crime Performance in Islington

Crime TypeJan 2012 -

Dec 2012

Jan 2013 -

Dec 2013Difference % change

Direction of

Travel

Violent Offences

Assault with Injury Offences 1572 1162 -410 -26 ↓

Common Assault Offences 1378 1320 -58 -4 ↓

Gun Crime Offences 36 35 -1 -3 ↓

Harassment Offences 1802 1590 -212 -12 ↓

Knife Crime Offences 406 263 -143 -35 ↓

Most Serious Violence Offences 274 558 284 104 ↑

Murder Offences 4 5 1 25 →

Offensive Weapon Offences 134 116 -18 -13 ↓

Other Violence Offences 223 209 -14 -6 ↓

Serious Wounding Offences 261 542 281 108 ↑

Serious Youth Violence 154 132 -22 -14 ↓

Sexual Offences 297 306 9 3 ↑

VAP Offences 5374 4944 -430 -8 ↓

Violence With Injury Offences 1847 1722 -125 -7 ↓

Violent Crime Offences 6868 6213 -655 -10 ↓

Youth Violence 375 326 -49 -13 ↓

Property Crime

Burglary (total) Offences 2430 2412 -18 -1 ↓

Burglary (non-res) Offences 1005 1146 141 14 ↑

Burglary (res) Offences 1425 1266 -159 -11 ↓

Handling Stolen Goods Offences 78 88 10 13 ↓

Motor Vehicle Crime Offences 2413 2338 -75 -3 ↓

Other Theft Offences 5281 3995 -1286 -24 ↓

Robbery Business Offences 67 69 2 3 →

Robbery Offences 1197 963 -234 -20 ↓

Robbery Personal Offences 1130 894 -236 -21 ↓

Theft & Handling Offences 13802 12485 -1317 -10 ↓

Theft From MV Offences 1812 1705 -107 -6 ↓

Theft From Person Offences 3646 3961 315 9 ↑

Theft From Shops Offences 1098 936 -162 -15 ↓

Theft Of Pedal Cycles Offences 1155 1041 -114 -10 ↓

Theft/Taking Of MV Offences 601 633 32 5 →

Hate Crimes

Disability Hate Offences 7 7 0 0 →

Domestic Incidents 3893 3767 -126 -3 ↓

Domestic Offences 1625 1547 -78 -5 ↓

DV VWI Offences 539 485 -54 -10 ↓

Faith Hate Crime Offences 41 36 -5 -12 ↓

Homophobic Offences 81 78 -3 -4 ↓

Racially & Religiously Agg Offences 354 296 -58 -16 ↓

Racist and Religious Incidents 478 424 -54 -11 ↓

Racist and Religious Offences 482 431 -51 -11 ↓

Drug Offences

Drug Offences 1763 1385 -378 -21 ↓

Drug Trafficking Offences 220 183 -37 -17 ↓

Possession Of Drugs Offences 1526 1192 -334 -22 ↓

Other Crime Types

Criminal Damage Offences 1895 1635 -260 -14 ↓

Fraud or Forgery Offences 870 81 -789 -91 ↓

Total Notifiable Offences 28017 24593 -3424 -12 ↓