Received a
report from Andrea Clemons, Head of Community
Safety.
NOTED:
- That
the new London Crime Policing Plan may result in changes to the
performance indicators used in future
- Indicators for crimes highlighted in green show an improved
performance from the baseline (2011/12) figures shown. These include those for burglary, robbery, theft
from motor vehicle and theft of motor vehicles
- Overall, the MOPAC seven crime categories for Enfield are
showing a -1.2% decrease in the last 12 months
- Indicators for crimes highlighted in red show an increase in
cases and include ‘theft from person’ and
‘violence with injury’.
- The
‘violence with injury’ cases largely include domestic
abuse cases and street brawls/ street gang incidents. Compared to
other London boroughs our increase for these cases over the
previous 12 months is relatively minor at 0.1%. The reason why the
data for Enfield is better than for other boroughs regarding gang
crime is that we are focusing on early intervention to restrict
behaviours, this involves targeted work and bidding for
resources.
- ‘ASB calls’, which is one of the additional SSCB
priorities now includes calls taken relating to Council housing
estates.
- The
‘Performance Tracker’ graph shows the increase in the %
of cases of ‘violence with injury’ for Enfield since
2010. Apart from this, the graph shows
a general improvement trend for Enfield for the MOPAC seven crime
categories.
- Both
Robbery and Burglary indicators for Enfield show a decrease over
the last 12 months. Campaigns on
‘Met trace’ and ‘Be Safe’ are significant
here and have been used to encourage people to secure their
properties.
- Data
for Serious Youth violence shows an increase of 2.1% for Enfield
and 4.3% for London for the last 12 months. Although gang related
crime is not a performance indicator, there are indicators which
relate to this issue such as for knife or gun crime. A ‘hotspot’ map showing the areas of
increased ‘Serious Youth Violence’ in London for the
last year indicates that north/eastern boroughs are particularly
affected.
- It was
pointed out that ‘gun crimes’ recorded, include cases
where a crime is committed by a person who has intimated that he
has a gun even when this may not later be found. For those cases recorded as ‘gun
discharged’, evidence would need to be shown that a gun had
actually been discharged. An armed
response unit would be called out when it is known that a gun is
present.
- Violence Trend Charts were shown for Dec 2013 to August 2016 -
for the number of cases of ‘Robbery’ ‘Violence
with Injury’ and ‘Serious Youth
Violence’. It also indicated the
periods where additional resources were provided. This is to
indicate whether additional resources had had an impact on
crime.
- A
table indicating the 5 strands of ‘hate crime’
indicated the number of offences for the year compared to the
previous 12 months for both Enfield and London. There are
relatively low numbers of hate crime in Enfield with racist
offences experiencing the biggest numbers and the biggest
percentage increase experienced disability. It also showed an
increase in the number of faith offences.
- A
table showed the ‘hate crime’ data for the 95 days
before and after the ‘Brexit’ referendum for Enfield
and London. This indicated a 16.1%
increase in Racist hate crime for Enfield for the 95 days following
the referendum, however there was no increase in the number of
Faith hate crimes for the same period.
It was thought London may have been affected less by this than
other areas because of its largely ‘diverse’
population.
The following questions/
comments were raised:
It was noted that there was a
reduction in the number of vehicle thefts and also of the number of
thefts from vehicles. It was thought
this may be as a result of manufacturers design improvements-
leading to better security.
Q: As well as the MOPAC 7
categories,- as a borough we had been
allowed to set additional priorities, will this still be possible
in future?
A: We can set our own
priorities and work with the police and look at our Strategic
Assessment to see if there are any anomalies. It was noted that there will be different Ward
Priorities.
It was confirmed that where a
robbery has occurred with a knife, this would be included under the
‘knife offence’ category.
It was noted that knife crime figures show a reduction
overall.
Q: What is being done to get us
to move from ‘red’ highlighted crime categories into
‘green’?
A: We have specific targets in
Enfield and various police operations are underway which focus on
areas such as those for ‘Staying Safe’.