Working in Partnership to Reduce Youth Crime and Anti Social Behaviour

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Working in Partnership to Reduce Youth Crime and
Anti Social Behaviour

• West Ham Plaistow New Deal for Communities

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NDC Background Info

• 10,000 population
• Deprived neighbourhood
• Diverse and transient population
• Young pop
• Total crime rate 61.9 per 1000

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Initial response

• Initial response to crime - Two tier policing
  team
• Part MPS and part Community Constabulary
• Crime analyst
• Intensive youth projects
• Residents trained in problem solving

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Results

• Total crime April 2001 to December 2004 on a
  downward trend.
• 19 reduction in assaults (02-04)
• 41 decrease in criminal damage (02-04)
• 30 reduction in Disorder plateau
• Fear of crime increased

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Response

• New structure required to tackle fear and address
  mainstreaming
• Public not seeing key issues followed through

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Multi Agency Crime Steering Group

• Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods Teams
• LB Newhams Anti Social Behaviour Unit, Housing,
  Public Realm and Culture Departments
• East Thames Housing Association and other RSLs
• NDC YIP Manager
• Education department rep.
• Neighbourhood manager
• Youth service area manager
• Other agencies as required
• Chief Inspector (Chairing)

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Operation

• Meets monthly
• Group discusses strategy
• Main role is case working.
• Prioritisation of cases
• Drives publicity and re-assurance strategy

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Community Intelligence

• NDC programme has engendered an engaged
  population
• Community Forum structure used to gather
  intelligence
• Service User groups
• Centres
• Schools, GPs, Early Years etc.

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Example West Ham

• Local community forum held May 05.
• Residents raised concerns around young people
  misbehaving in the street
• Investigated concerns real/gossip
• Analysis of allegations showed rise
• Issue taken to crime steering group

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Action taken

• LBN Together Bus in problem road by following
  week
• Extra patrols by SNT and Community Constabulary
  as a result of reports of crime evening
  patrolling door knocking
• Local residents written to confidential crime
  surgeries
• One property targeted LBN, RSL and MPS agree
  ABC by mid June
• Diversionary youth activities held in immediate
  area and better signposting to wider Borough
  activities.
• YIP undertook targeted consultation
• Local young people signed up to Construction
  Training
• Enforcement of an existing ASBO and key known
  offender arrested
• Dispersal Order in place by October 05.

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Action Taken 2
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Result

• Allegations of crime in Memorial Avenue reduced
  by two thirds between May and June.
• Reported crime in West Ham area over last summer
  (July to September 05) was half that in the
  previous summer(04)
• Young people locally were better linked into
  existing activities available
• Helped with the integration of the Safer
  Neighbourhood Team
• Residents felt they were being listened too and
  issues followed through

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Discussion points

• Structure is about better delivery of mainstream
  resources not NDC funded.
• Role of Chief Inspector as Chair
• Roll out model Canning Town
• Dispersal Order evaluation awaited
• Personality or stand the test of time
• Statistical reliability of localised approach