Chief Superintendent John Pollock Strathclyde Police Community Policing – a Shared Responsibility.

Chief Superintendent John Pollock Strathclyde Police

Community Policing –

a Shared Responsibility

Community Planning & Community Policing

Chief Superintendent

John Pollock

Life BC

Glasgow’s First Community Plan:• Non-statutory• Occasionally contradictory• No shared philosophy• Not outcome focused• Structures not joined up • Regarded by some as artificial or duplication of effort • No buy-in• No governance

Strathclyde Police Priorities 2008/09

Deprivation ASB Disorder Violence

Response Policing

Engaging Criminality

Public Reassurance

Creating a Safe Strategic Assessment

• National [ACPOS] Police Performance framework

• Strathclyde Police Strategic Assessment

• Strathclyde Public Consultation Process

• Glasgow Centre for Population Health/NHS Glasgow and Clyde

• Changing demography

• Glasgow Community & Safety Services Data

• Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service Annual Report

CommunityEngagement

NeighbourhoodPriorities

Collaborativeproblem solving

NeighbourhoodProblems

ConfidenceTrustCommunityIntelligence

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Engagement

Q.25 - Is There a Community Police Officer That Looks After the Area Where you Live?

38%

15%

47%

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10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

Yes No Don't Know

Q.12 - Do You Have a Fear of Crime in Your Neighbourhood?

57%

43%

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10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Yes No

Public confidence is essential to the provision of a sense of security. This includes having confidence in the process used to identify problems and the methods used to deliver local policing

National Standards for Community Engagement

30 corporate questions

The Public’s Priorities

• Drunk & Disorderly Behaviour 28%

• Drug Use / Drug Dealing 23%

• Assault / Violent Crime 16%

• Speeding Motorists 16%

• Housebreaking 9%

• Car Crime 8%Strathclyde Police Force Consultation Results 2007/08

Based on analysis, the following were suggested as the priority areas for the ‘Safe Theme’ 2008/09 :Reducing Violence

Reducing Domestic Violence

Tackling Antisocial Behaviour & Disorder

Tackling the Fear of Crime

Reducing Accidents on the Roads & In Our Homes

Local Community Planning Partnership AreasLocal Community Planning Partnership Areas

Govan & Craigton

Drumchapel/ Anniesland & Garscadden/Scotstounhill

Partick West,Hillhead & Anderston / City

Greater Pollok & Newlands /AuldburnEast Centre & Calton

Maryhill / Kelvin & Canal

Shettleston, Bailleston & Eastern Glasgow North East

Springburn & WesternGlasgow North East

Pollokshields East & Southside Central

Langside & Linn

South East Team

West Team

South West Team East Team

North Team

Devolved Area Co-ordination TeamsDevolved Area Co-ordination Teams

Management Management ArrangementsArrangements

Executive GroupExecutive Group

Community Planning Strategic BoardCommunity Planning Strategic Board

WORKINGWORKING

HEALTHYHEALTHY

LEARNINGLEARNING

SAFESAFE

VIBRANTVIBRANT

5 X Theme Champions5 X Theme Champions

Glasgow Model

• Community Safety Partnership

– Chair – Theme Champion– Education & Social Work/Health/Fire/RoSPA/Glasgow

Community & Safety Services/Culture & Sport Glasgow/VRU/GHA

– Glasgow Community Assessment being produced to support work

– Combination of police, health and fire statistics – Link to SOA

• national indicators, local outcomes– Includes violent crime, perceptions of safety, road safety,

ASB & disorder, racist incidents, quality of public services, crime inequalities based on SIM

Developing the Safe Theme

Violence: prevalence

0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0

Pollokshields and Southside Central

East Centre and Calton

Glasgow

Govan and Craigton

Springburn

Drumchapel Anniesland and GarscaddenScotstounhill

Baillieston Shettleston

Central and West

Maryhill Kelvin and Canal

Greater Pollok and New lands Auldburn

Langside and Linn

Crimes per 1000 Population

Role of Public Reassurance in service delivery

• Neighbourhood Reassurance Groups in the City– Link to local CPP/Sub Divisional Structure– Crucial to the delivery of the Public

Reassurance Model– Community Engagement– Link to CP Safe Theme priorities– Police function in CPP

• Responsibility

• Community Policing Teams

– More responsive to local needs– Tackle local crime issues– Work in partnership with all agencies to tackle the

underlying problems that contribute to crime and disorder in neighbourhoods

– Increase the number of locally based officers – Reduce abstraction from dealing with community

issues– Local partnerships crucial to success

• GCSS, Culture & Sport, Education, Social Work

Community Policing Teams

Reassurance Policing at local Level – Partnership for Prevention and Diversion - Area Partnership Teams

Core Group policingCommunity policingSpecial ConstablesSupport Services

Glasgow Community & Safety Services

• PRIVATE LANDLORDS REGISTRATION UNIT• MEDIATION• COMMUNITY RELATIONS UNIT• OUT OF HOURS NOISE TEAM• VICTIMS & VULNERABLE • POLICE INTELLIGENCE & ENFORCEMENT

• PREVENTION & DIVERSION SERVICES• SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES• RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

• ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM• GRAFFITI & ENHANCEMENT TEAM• COMMUNITIY SAFETY PATROL & ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS• CITY CENTRE TASK FORCE• HOME SAFETY & SECURITY

• PUBLIC SPACE CCTV

• VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN• ASSIST• TARA•STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Delivery model

• Through multi-agency Neighbourhood Reassurance Groups

• Signal Crimes • Environmental audits• E.P.I.C. – Enforcement, Prevention, Intelligence and

COMMUNICATION• Service response and intervention assessed/measured by

communities in respect of satisfaction and reassurance levels in addition to organisational data

CONTEST

• The aim is ‘to reduce the risk of international terrorism so that people can go about their business freely and with confidence’.

• Prevent• Pursue• Protect• Preparedness

Project Griffin

• Protect and Prepare elements of CONTEST

• Target Harden

• Increase awareness - Increase surveillance

• Project Caledonia - Accredited Training for business

partners

• Co-ordination of services/partners

• Evacuation Plan

Additional Funding

Glasgow Community Planning 100 extra Community Police Officers for Glasgow

Scottish Government 175 extra Community Police Officers for Glasgow

BenefitsReduced Abstractions

Intelligently deployed (Public Reassurance Strategy)

Improved visibility & accessibility

Will work to a locally agreed Neighbourhood Contract (SLA)

Performance framework will reflect SOA

Developing the ‘Safe’ Theme• Role of Divisions• Priorities

– Strategic across the City– Public Reassurance at local level

• Neighbourhood focused policing• Linking to Multi-disciplinary local teams

– Prevention/Diversion & Enforcement

Summary

Looking over the horizon

• Increased co-location of services• Better co-ordination of local services • Joint capital planning• Reducing victimisation – early referral

investing in young people • Avoiding duplication with & linking into other

themes