Issue - meetings

Please note that further information in relation to this report will be circulated on Friday 10 October.

The Board received a report and presentation on the Strategic Assessment for the period September 2007 to August 2008. The report advised that overall crime rate was down 8% year on year for the past three years, and gave headline figures for crime and other issues as indicated by crime, disorder and environmental data for Haringey. It was noted that the decrease in malicious calls to the Fire Service indicated in the report was due to a change in the Fire Service’s response to such calls and not due to a decrease in the number of calls being made, which was in fact increasing.

It was agreed that it was important to try and ensure that information was collated in the same way year on year in order to establish baseline data and facilitate performance monitoring, and for the timings of the collation of data to be co-ordinated such that each dataset covered the same time period. It was suggested that the Performance Management Board look into these issues in due course. It was noted that the full Annual Strategic Assessment would be published electronically in the week following the meeting.

RESOLVED

That the content of the report be noted.