Agenda item

Ø      Strategic Assessment Overview – Focus on trends, pressures and gaps (15 mins)

Ø      Policing and developments (5 mins)

Ø      Tottenham Regeneration Update (5 mins)

Ø      Youth Strategy (5 mins)

Prior to the workshop sessions looking at the priority actions and resources for the Community Safety Plan 2012/13 a presentation on the 2011 Strategic Assessment of crime in the Borough was given (attached at Appendix 1).

The following updates were also provided in order to inform subsequent discussion:

Policy and Policing Developments

Following the disturbances in August the Police had put in place a number of measures in place that were designed to build confidence in the area and improve capacity. These included an additional allocation of fifty police officers for Tottenham and these officers would be working with the Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) to drive forward work around the new ‘Community Promises’, which had been formed by the Community Panel and  launched earlier in the month.

In addition to this a ‘Gangs Taskforce’ had been established in the Borough and this unit consisted of one Inspector, two Sergeants and fourteen Constables and this was intended to reinforce the Borough and MET Police’s commitment to tackling gangs in Haringey and London.

Engaging with the local community and responding its concerns were recognised as being critical in terms of the work being undertaken by the Police in the Tottenham area. Integral to this were the twelve ‘Community Promises’ agreed by the Community Panel and these would underpin the approach taken by the Police in terms of policing in the area.

It was noted that the senior management team of the Police in Haringey had been reinforced with three additional Superintendents and this recognised the need for greater capacity within the organisation to drive through changes.

The Chair requested that information with regard to the ‘Community Promises’ was circulated with the minutes. 

Tottenham Regeneration Update

Since the update provided in October it was noted that there had been a great deal of engagement work undertaken with local people and that was being fed into the regeneration strategy for the area.

Planning applications for several of the buildings damaged during the disturbances had now come forward. Following it sale to the Greater London Authority (GLA) the former Council building at 639 High Road Tottenham was being developed as a centre for employment and skills in partnership with the Council. 

The Tottenham Task Force group, which was Chaired by Councillor Strickland, was overseeing the development of the regeneration strategy for Tottenham and this would be completed by May 2012.

Addressing Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) and environmental crime was seen as being important to improving the quality of the area for residents. A zero tolerance approach was being adopted to these types of low level crime and the Council was establishing a dedicated enforcement team in Tottenham to tackle this.

Youth Strategy

A new strategy was being formed for Young People in Haringey to reflect the significant reduction in the level of resources available and how the resources in place would be used to target those in the most need of support. This had been consulted upon with young people and approximately seven hundred responses had been received.

Within the strategy there would be a focus on improving partnership working and identifying where services and activities could be provided by the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS).

In forming the service offer for Tottenham the strategy had been aligned with the emerging Tottenham Regeneration strategy and efforts were being made to maintain some of the universal service offer through increased working with the VCS.