Agenda item

The Partnership received a cover report and accompanying presentation which provided an update on crime performance in the 12 months to August 2021 as compared to the preceding 12 month period, as well as compared to the previous 3-year average. Partners noted that overall crime had reduced by 3% since August 2020, and almost all crime categories had also experienced significant reductions. Performance in most areas was similar to the large reductions noted across

London as a whole and other in other individual boroughs. Haringey had experienced larger than average reductions in knife crime and robbery offending. The report and presentation were introduced by Sandeep Broca, Intelligence Analysis Manager, as set out in the agenda pack at pages 21-34. The following arose during the discussion of the presentation:

1. Partners welcomed the 31% reduction in personal robberies as well as a 31% reduction in knife crime over the 12 month period, particularly given the historically high level of instances of these crime types.
2. In regard to a question around what was being done to tackle hotspot locations, Chris Jones advised that the Commissioner had just announced the launch of the Town Centre Police Teams which would equate to an extra 25 officers in Haringey. In addition to this Haringey was going to receive a doubling of its neighbourhood teams in the east of the borough. The police advised that the Wood Green Town Centre Team had already been selected and would be up and running shortly, which would relieve pressure in high footfall areas.
3. Police colleagues commented that improvements could be made around how the Police and Partnership communicated their successes to the community. The Police were developing a wide ranging comms strategy and as part of that, they were looking at bringing the communications unit under the direct management of the BCU Commander. This would create opportunities for joint messaging between the Council and the Police.
4. The Police also advised that they were evaluating whether too many resources had been focused on drugs and whether some of this resource should be reprioritised to violent offending. An assessment of specialist crime units as well as dedicated Met. Policing assets was also being undertaken, with the overall aim of reprioritising police staff on the BCU.
5. Enfield had undertaken a public health mapping exercise of the east of the borough and there was a high degree of correlation between DV, school exclusions and high areas with a high concentration of gangs. The Leader commented that she would be interested to see whether a similar exercise could be undertaken for the east of Haringey.
6. In response to a question around how the police responded to particular crime trends at a location, partners were advised that the police met with key partners, including the Council, at fortnightly tactical crime meetings where hotspots were discussed and additional resources could be requested to tackle particular problems. Police colleagues also outlined the development of real-time crime mapping capabilities through the Met Insight system. It was suggested that this could be shared with the local authority going forward.
7. Officers advised that they were preparing a briefing on the uplift of police numbers for Members. The Leader requested that a joint briefing on this be developed for the public. (Action: Eubert/Chris Jones).

RESOLVED

The Board noted the content of the Crime Performance Overview pack, which

highlights the changes to crime performance in the past 12-months and 3-years.