the birmingham and peterborough pcso hot spots experiments operation savvy + operation style
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6th International Conference on Evidence-Based Policing. The Birmingham and Peterborough PCSO Hot Spots Experiments Operation Savvy + Operation Style. Dr Barak Ariel Neil Wain (PhD Cand .) Cristobal Weinborn (PhD Cand .) Sgt. Wendy Goodhill Insp. Rob Hill Prof Lawrence Sherman. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Birmingham and Peterborough PCSO Hot Spots Experiments
Operation Savvy + Operation Style
Dr Barak Ariel Neil Wain (PhD Cand.)
Cristobal Weinborn (PhD Cand.)Sgt. Wendy Goodhill
Insp. Rob HillProf Lawrence Sherman
6th International Conference on Evidence-Based Policing
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Background• "Law of concentrations of crime at place”
– (Weisburd, Telep, Braga & Groff 2010:167; Sherman et al 1989)
• General deterrence (prevention) and rational choice theories- (Sherman and Weisburd, 1995)
• 20 of 25 tests of hot spots policing interventions worldwide reported noteworthy crime and disorder reductions – (Braga, Papachristos & Hureau 2012)
• The benefits of increased officer time spent in the hot spot plateau around 15 minutes– (Koper, 1995; Telep , Mitchell & Weisburd, 2012)
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Unanswered Questions in Place-Based Police Initiatives
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Does hotspots policing work in non-grid layouts?
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Other types of capable guardians?
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Dosage and Tracking – in both Experimental and Control Conditions
• Time spent in hotspots:- Total time of all officers- Officers involved in the experiment
• What is the optimal number of visits per shift?
• “business as usual” tracking of patrol
• In untreated areas – is it really business as usual?
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Effect Conditional on history of hotspot
• “Super stubborn hotspots” are immune to 15-minute, 3 visits per shift patrols in LU, but what about above ground?– (Ariel and Sherman, forthcoming)
• Test the effect of intervention as a function of the socio-demographic and criminogenic attributes of the hotspot, over a 10-year period – (Weinborn and Ariel, forthcoming)
• Measure non-crime outcomes- (Weinborn and Ariel, forthcoming)- (Weisburd, Ariel and Ilan, forthcoming)
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The Birmingham and Peterborough PCSO Hot Spots Experiments
Operations Savvy + Style
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Context
• 4th and 5th Evidence-Based Policing Conferences
• Austerity crisis/opportunity
• Future of foot patrol / PCSOs
• Does hotspot policing work in the UK?
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Overall Research Design• Multisite randomised controlled trial
• Random assignment of all hotspots within 3 blocks of ‘heat’
• Intervention delivered by PCSOs only
• 3 X 15-minute patrols, Wed-Sat, 3-10PM, in treatment hotspots• “business as usual” in control hotspots
• GPS locators on all front-line officers (radios)
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Baseline Analyses - Temporal
00:00-00:59
02:00-02:59
04:00-04:59
06:00-06:59
08:00-08:59
10:00-10:59
12:00-12:59
14:00-14:59
16:00-16:59
18:00-18:59
20:00-20:59
22:00-22:590
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
5000
Birmingham South (12-month data)Hourly Distribution of Crime
(n=57,070)
Peterborough (48-month data)Hourly Distribution of Crime
(n= 127,299)
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Incident Type
Row & inconsid behaviour.Suspicious circumstances
ASB - nuisanceSusp circs (inc veh's & prems)
ViolenceTheft (not vehicle related)
BurglaryCriminal damage
Row/nuis - neighboursVeh rel nuis/inapp veh use
Coll./illness/injury/trappedASB - personal
Malicious/nuis. CommunicationNoise
Aban veh (not smv/obstruct)ASB - environmentalStolen motor vehicle
Theft from motor vehicleASB - pers. - standard risk
BilkingRobbery
ArsonSexual offence
DrugsOther crime
46,165
24,066
16,782%
Birmingham (n=57,070)
ASB
CRIMINAL DAMAGE
VEHICLE CRIME
BURGLARY DWELLING
THEFT OTHER
THEFT FROM SHOPS AND STALLS
BURGLARY OTHER BUILDING
ROBBERY AND THEFT PERSON
MAKE OFF W/O PAYMENT
THEFT OF PEDAL CYCLE
THEFT DWELLING NOT MACHINE/METER
ARSON
GO EQUIPPED/HANDLE
THEFT FROM AUTO MACH/METER
THEFT MAIL BAG/POST PACKET
THEFT DWELLING NOT MACH/METER
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
45.47%
7.43%
Peterborough (n=127,299)
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Crime Hotspots
High Level Hotspots (75+ crimes per hotspot)
Mid Level Hotspots (50-75 crimes per hotspot)
Low Level Hotspots (36-50 crimes per hotspot)
-
20.00
40.00
60.00
80.00
100.00
120.00 105.00
61.27 41.76
97.00
60.86 41.68
mean (12 months) Bham T mean (12 months) Bham C
High Level Hotspots (120+ crimes per hotspot)
Mid Level Hotspots (25-120 crimes per hotspot)
Low Level Hotspots (15+ crimes per hotspot)
-
40.00
80.00
120.00
160.00 165.67
65.60
20.31
166.60
62.78
20.04
mean Pet. (annualised 12 months) T mean Pet. (annualised 12 months) C
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Operation Savvy
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Unique Features• Birmingham South LPU
• “tasking sheets” based on neighbourhood teams’ intelligence
• GPS locators on all front line officers in LPU
• 79 eligible hotspots defined as:
1. Minimum n crimes in a hotspot within 12 months = 36
2. Maximum hotspot radius = 150 meters
3. Buffer zone/catchment area = 100 meters
4. Minimum distance between epicentres = 500 meters
5. “crimes” = street crimes, no shopping arcades / schools / hospitals / leisure centres
Superintendent Jo Smallwood
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Directed Patrols • PCSO’s are directed by the relevant Problem Solving Sergeants
based on local knowledge, intelligence and dynamic risk assessment
• Each patrol area has a spreadsheet located in the Op Savvy database on Corvus. These must be completed daily by the allocated PCSO to show the number of visits to each Hotspot, times and any intelligence/significant events
• Nil returns are also recorded
• These records help inform the briefing pack updates (Problem Solving Sergeants are responsible for briefing pack refresh each calendar month)
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Tasking Sheet for each Patrol area (example)
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start: 15:30-15:45
0.6 miles; 12 minutes
16:00-16:150.6 miles; 12 minutes
0.5 miles; 12 minutes
16:30-16:45
17:00-17:15 0.9 miles; 19 minutes
BREAK 15 MINUTES
1.4 miles; 27 minutes
Restart 18:35-18:50
17:50-18:05
Patrol Example
Notes: (a) the patrol sequence should be altered on a daily basis; (b) conducted by solo or double PCSO patrols (c) dedicated officers must NEVER proactively patrol the control areas – ?
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Preventative Patrol (1 of 2)“Car Wash”
Main offence types in this areaYouth ASB, BDH, Drugs, Damage
Shannon Rd Car wash
Kings Norton Hotspot 2 – Cluster 36
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Preventative Patrol (2 of 2)“The Goose PH”
Main offence types in this areaShops thefts, Pubs and associated ASB, Street Drinkers
The Goose PH
Aldi
Selly Oak Hotspot 2 – Cluster 20
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Tracking Officers
ARLS Data Analysis
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Automatic Resource Location System ARLS
• GPS-enabled system
• “Sits” on Airways Systems
• Uses “Point in polygon” analysis
• Locates officers everywhere
• GPS-ping every 120 seconds
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How Data are Captured?
• Officers enter the geo-fenced area
• Email notification with every PING
• N emails = 683,069 over 135 days (23/11-06/04)
• Convert outlook emails into txt file into excel file into SPSS
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ARLS Findings
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Hotspot as the Unit of ARLS Analysis
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High Level Hotspots (75+ crimes per
hotspot)
Mid Level Hotspots (50-75 crimes per
hotspot)
Low Level Hotspots (36-50 crimes per
hotspot)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
7.0 7.16.5
8.7 8.5
7.3
11.9
10.79.6
16.8
15.3
13.3
Minutes Spent per Visit - Birmingham
Control - all officersTreatment - all officersControl - PCSOs onlyTreatment - PCSOs only
mea
n m
inut
es
41% diff – PCSOs only
16% diff – all officers
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High Medium Low-50%
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
250% 227.00%
-3.00%-26.00%
184%152%
212%
Birmingham: Percent Change - Total N of Vis-its
Experimental v. Control
PCs PCSOs
Blocks
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PCSOs as the Unit of ARLS Analysis
(or: tracking in the 21st century)
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Managing Police Patrol Time
– Communication– Training*– Front Line Supervisors*– Organisational Support (Reward)*– Time*– Senior Officer visibility– Accountability
* Based upon Famega, Frank and Mazerolle (2007) Managing Police Patrol Time: The Role of Supervisor Directives.
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Operation Style
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Unique Features• 10 year Longitudinal analysis
• Non-crime outcomes (Quality of life measures)
• GPS locators on all front line officers in LPU
• 72 Hotspots defined as:
1. Minimum calls for service in a hotspot within 48 months = 60
2. Maximum hotspot radius = 150 meters
3. Buffer zone/catchment area = 50 meters
4. Minimum distance between hotspot boundaries = 250 meters
5. “calls for service” = street incidents, no shopping arcades / schools / hospitals / leisure
centre
Chief Superintendent Andy Hebb
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72 Hotspots developed from the offence data
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Cont.
150 meter radiusPer hotspot
More than 250 meters between hotspots
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Community / PCSO Feedback
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Impressions from the field
• Good old fashioned policing “Dixon of Dock Green”
• Reflected in Confidence Surveys
• Who is that strange PCSO in my area???!!
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PCSO POSITIVE INTERVENTIONS 1
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME…..
• Gladstone Hotspot – Drug deal intercepted – 2 Arrested
• Paston Hotspot – Gang related assault. Serious injury averted – Suspects located. The stock of the PCSO goes up on area and with regular officers
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PCSO POSITIVE INTERVENTIONS 2
• Welland Hotspot – Two seen stealing fuel from cars – Arrested.
• Intelligence submissions are increased in hotspot areas. This has enabled more focused long term activity / problem solving policing
• Warm reception from the community….”“Sir – This is fantastic. A member of the public offered me a cuppa as thanks for making them feel safe”
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Non-Crime Outcomes
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Non-crime outcomes in Peterborough 1
Quality of Life (QOL) Hotspots
• Based on 12 months of data from Safer Peterborough Partnership - 86 QOL hotspots were identified
• The total number of events* = 11,351
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(*) sanitation, council / estate concerns, needles found, excessive noise, graffiti, etc.
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Offences and QOL events
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Offences and QOL hotspots overlapping
54.17% overlapping
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Overlapping example
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Spearman’s Rho = .754 (p<.001) sharing 57% of variance
Offences and QOL hotspots spatial relation
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VVV
• Digitised records of ambulance emergency calls for assaults from Peterborough (N=775), between April 01st 2011 and March 31st 2012 (provided by the East Ambulance Trust)
• Hotspot methodology can be used to share data between agencies without disclosing personal information
Ariel, B., Weinborn, C., and Boyle, A. (forthcoming). “Can routinely collected ambulance data about assaults contribute to community violence reduction”
Non-crime outcomes in Peterborough 2
Ambulance Hotspots
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Violent offences and ambulance emergency calls
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Violent offences and ambulance emergency calls spatial relations
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Peterborough GPS data
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Hot hotspots Medium Hotspots Low Hotspots00:00:00
00:01:26
00:02:52
00:04:19
00:05:45
00:07:12
00:08:38
00:10:04
00:11:31
00:12:57
00:06:40
00:03:51
00:02:49
00:08:13
00:04:18 00:04:25
00:06:39
00:05:49
00:01:51
00:11:42
00:10:49
00:08:37
Minutes spent per visit - Peterborough
Control - PCs onlyTreatment - PCs onlyControl - PCSOs onlyTreatment - PCSOs only
Mea
n m
inut
es
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Hot hotspots Medium Hotspots Low Hotspots00:00:00
00:07:12
00:14:24
00:21:36
00:28:48
00:36:00
00:43:12
00:50:24
00:57:36
01:04:48
01:12:00
01:04:18
00:29:24 00:30:47
00:55:45
00:33:37
00:18:3500:16:32
00:09:53
00:03:30
00:42:45 00:43:53
00:26:30
Minutes spent per day - Peterborough
Control - PCs onlyTreatment - PCs onlyControl - PCSOs onlyTreatment - PCSOs only
Mea
n m
inut
es
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Control
Experimental
Control
Experimental
Control
Experimental
Med
ium
Hot
spot
s
0 5 10 15 20 25
15.4
9.2
9.9
12.7
21.1
8.1
N visits of PCs only in PeterboroughOverall 22% more visits in Control
Hotspots
mean n visits per hotspot
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Control
Experimental
Control
Experimental
Control
Experimental
Med
ium
Hot
spot
s
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
2.9
3.7
2.1
4.4
2.1
3.1
N Visits of PCSOs Only in Peterborough – Overall 71% more visits in Treatment
Hotspots
mean n visits per hotspot
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Outcomes
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Peterborough – Post RA only
63%
25%
12%
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A Reversed Effect in Birmingham South Low level hotspots -
What happened?
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Three hypotheses
• The “Suboptimal Dosage” hypothesis
• The “Crime Reporting Behaviour” hypothesis
• The “Oversized Hotspot” hypothesis
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The Dosage Hypothesis
• Birmingham:– small temporal deltas between T & C – 39% additional PCSO time – Number of visits by PCs in C decreased
• Peterborough:– 5.5 times additional PCSO time– virtually no time spent in low level control hotspots
by PCs (or PCSOs)
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The Crime Reporting Hypothesis*
(*requires further investigation re source of call)
PCSO presence increases reporting in hotspots generally characterised with both low crime and limited police patrol
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Birmingham Theft from Shop - Percent Change Reporting
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The Oversized Hotspot Hypothesis
• Are 150m radius, low-level hotspots too big?
Birmingham South Peterborough
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Conclusions / Policy Implications• Next 6-9 months of data will be revealing and hopefully with
the new technology it will be easier to analyse
• Deployment of PCSO patrols for short durations in high crime hotspots could be a cost effective patrol deployment
• GPS locators will become critically important for management and accountability
• Whilst this RCT has so far revealed similar results to other hotspot RCTs around the world, the GPS data allows us to ask more questions
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The Birmingham and Peterborough PCSO Hot Spots Experiments
Operation Savvy + Operation Style
Dr Barak Ariel Neil Wain (PhD Cand.)
Cristobal Weinborn (PhD Cand.)Sgt. Wendy Goodhill
Insp. Rob HillProf Lawrence Sherman
6th International Conference on Evidence-Based Policing