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Community Safety Partnership [CSP] Plan 2017 - 21
Meeting: 28/01/2019 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 3)
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The Committee will receive a presentation from the Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Equalities Cllr Asma Begum; the Borough Commander, Sue Williams; and the Corporate Director, Health, Adults & Community, Denise Radley
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Committee will receive a presentation from the Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Equalities Cllr Asma Begum; the Borough Commander, Sue Williams; and the Corporate Director, Health, Adults & Community, Denise Radley.
The discussions on this presentation may be summarised as follows:
The Committee:
– Condemned the recent incident outside a school in Bow as Tower Hamlets is home to people from all over the world with a proud history which has been enriched by migration;
– Noted that through the use of Council CCTV and Council Funded Police Officers a man in his 60s had been taken into custody by police on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence;
– Noted that the Council and its partners are working with communities to develop a positive change in community safety and engagement;
– Noted that the Borough Commander and her officers had invested considerable energy in supporting the priorities within the partnership and addressing incidence of Anti-Social Behaviour; Knife Enabled Crime; Robbery; Theft; and Moped Offences;
– Noted that Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association (HARCA) has funded a dedicated 5-strong Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Team to work with their ASB and Safeguarding Teams;
– Noted that there are also more MPS officers on Tower Hamlets Homes (THH) housing estates. There will be 14 extra MPS officers funded by Tower Hamlets Council who will focus on tackling crime and ASB, working alongside THH’s own ASB team;
– Noted that the MPS London borough model has been condensed from 32 to 12 Basic Command Units (BCU) made up of two or three boroughs (e.g. Hackney and Newham) the BCU structure will allow the MPS to put first victims of crime and those people in greatest need. It will also give the MPS the resilience and consistency it needs across the whole of London, so that the MPS can continue to respond to large scale incidents and meet the current financial and operational challenges;
– Noted that property crime can be prevented through manipulating the design of individual dwellings, and their relationship to one another and to the surrounding neighbourhood;
– Noted that the 101 service has gone to a digital platform as the public now expect the MPS to have a significant online presence, with a similar level of functionality and ease of use to other services they access on a daily basis;
– Noted with regard to hate crime a lot of work has been done on reporting e.g. disability reporting and it was noted in the BCU there are Faith/Hate Crime Officers based both in Hackney and LBTH who are there to help and support communities and victims;
– Noted that in terms of data there is a need to include people’s experiences as data (e.g. the young voice) and to look at data at from a strategic perspective and how the available data is shared across the various partners/stakeholder groups;
– Noted that whilst the Home Office has reclassified many incidences of burglary non-residential to residential ... view the full minutes text for item 3
Meeting: 31/10/2017 - Cabinet (Item 5)
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Additional documents:
- 5.2a Appendix 1 CSP Plan 2017 to 21, item 5 PDF 242 KB
- Webcast for Community Safety Partnership [CSP] Plan 2017 - 21
Decision:
The recommendations were amended and then agreed.
DECISION
1. To recommend that Full Council approve the Community Safety Partnership Plan 2017-21 (Appendix 1 to the report), as per the Council Constitution.
2. To delegate to the Corporate Director, Health, Adults and Community authority to make minor changes to the Plan before submission to Council.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITY (D. RADLEY)
(Divisional Director, Community Safety (A. Corbett)
Minutes:
Councillor Asma Begum, Cabinet Member for Community Safety, introduced the report. She briefly took Cabinet through the key points of the Plan and highlighted that there had been 1,400 responses during the consultation from residents and workers in the Borough.
During discussion, the Mayor noted the Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and the discussions that had taken place at the recent Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting. He agreed to allow delegated authority to the Corporate Director, Health, Adults and Community to make minor changes to the Plan where required. With that change he agreed the recommendations as set out in the report.
RESOLVED
1. To recommend that Full Council approve the Community Safety Partnership Plan 2017-21 (Appendix 1 to the report), as per the Council Constitution.
2. To delegate to the Corporate Director, Health, Adults and Community authority to make minor changes to the Plan before submission to Council.
Meeting: 25/10/2017 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 8)
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The Community Safety Partnership (CSP) has a statutory duty to produce a Community Safety Partnership Plan which investigates challenges and opportunities for the borough and identifies its priorities for crime reduction.
The Plan (See appendix 1) outlines the Strategic Framework within Tower Hamlets and how the Community Safety Partnership Plan fits into this, specifically through the ‘Safe and Cohesive Community’ theme of the Community Plan.
Additional documents:
- Community Safety Partnership Plan 2017, item 8 PDF 156 KB
- Appendix 1 CSP Plan 2017 to 21, item 8 PDF 242 KB
Minutes:
The Committee was advised that the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) has a statutory duty to produce a Community Safety Partnership Plan which investigates challenges and opportunities for the Borough and identifies its priorities for crime reduction.
The Plan (as set out in Appendix 1) outlines the Strategic Framework within Tower Hamlets and how the Community Safety Partnership Plan fits into this, specifically through the ‘Safe and Cohesive Community’ theme of the Community Plan. It describes the Partnership’s two other statutory duties in order to produce the Plan, the Strategic Assessment 2016 and the Public Consultation on community safety priorities conducted in 2016.
It was noted that in 2016 the Community Safety Partnership reviewed and restructured its governance structure and operating procedures to ensure that it remained fit for purpose, implementing a strategic executive board (CSP Executive), made up of the Statutory Authorities, to drive strategic decision making and oversight.
The Committee was informed that the Community Safety Partnership has agreed on the following four priorities for the term of this Plan:
· Anti-social Behaviour including Drugs and Alcohol;
· Violence;
· Hate Crime, Community Cohesion and Extremism; and
· Reducing Re-offending.
The questions and comments from Members on this report may be summarised as follows:
The Committee:
- Noted that this is a plan that is intended to reflect local concerns;
- Noted that LBTH is paying for extra police officers so how does the Partnership measure their impact;
- Welcomed the positive “buy in” from LBTH to support Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), although not all the officers are in place;
- Wanted to see how to maintain the good relationship with the MPS Centre as this is locally;
- Noted that these resources will be “ring fenced” so that police officers are not being routinely 'abstracted' from their local beats to plug gaps in London-wide public order operations. Or to be taken to provide local aid elsewhere in LBTH but outside of the neighbourhoods that they are tasked to support;
- Noted if there are any specific issues on operations then the Borough Command is happy to give details to Ward Councillors on a 121 basis;
- Wanted to see some information to help build and maintain bridges with the community;
- Noted that Information on how to report low level incidents needs to be clarified as residents have very little confidence in the 101 number
- Expressed concern at the apparent lack of visibility with regard to the Safer Neighbourhood Teams [SNT] in the Borough;
- Noted that at the grassroots level there is a degree of disconnect with the service provided;
- Commented that concerns had been expressed regarding the English Defence Leaguetrying to enter LBTH and wanted to know why the MPS had apparently allowed them to march along Whitechapel Road? In response it was noted that regarding the routing of this march the Borough’s tension Monitoring group is being convened to look at this issue and explain the operational decisions undertaken with regard to the march;
- Felt that the incidence of burglary is on the increase and constituents have ... view the full minutes text for item 8