Halton Moor Adopting a Hate Crime Reduction Agenda Rose Simkins Stop Hate UK Joseph Comrie Leeds Cit

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Halton MoorAdopting a Hate Crime Reduction
Agenda Rose Simkins Stop Hate UKJoseph
Comrie Leeds City Counciland partners
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Halton MoorEast Leeds
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Content

• Halton Moor area profile
• Racial Harassment in Halton Moor
• Halton Moor Hate Crime Group
• Key initiatives
• Measurable outcomes
• Conclusion
• Questions and Answers

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Halton Moor Estate Area Profile
97 of the population White 63 of households on
Council administered benefits 97 of properties
in Council Tax Band A Approximately 3 of the
Estates current population is BME
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Racial Harassment Analysis of the problem

• 15 of crimes recorded on the estate classed as
  Racially Motivated.
• Predominantly Damage/Public Order.
• Damage accounts for 44 of crimes against B.M.E
  complainants.
• Local agencies were very concerned about the high
  numbers and severity of racist incidents.
• Lack of strategic ownership of the problem.
• 26 families petition Hilary Benn MP.
• Independent research by University of Leeds
  highlighted a number of major problems.

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Summary of Actions.

• Strategic Planning.
• Established Halton Moor Hate Crime Group
• (Action Plans)
• Adopting the Racism Reduction Agenda
• Dr. Ian Law Report University of Leeds
• Implementation of Exit Strategy

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Halton Moor Hate Crime Group Membership
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Local Delivery Structure
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Summary of Actions

• Community Involvement.
• Meetings held with victims to identify their
  priorities and concerns and to suggest community
  based solutions.
• Diversionary Tactics.
• Outreach and youth workers deployed to engage
  with problem youths and encourage participation
  in alternative activities.

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Key Initiatives

• Professional Witness
• Covert CCTV Units
• Revenue contribution towards installation of CCTV
  Units
• Installation of Metal Mickey CCTV Units
• Installation of Fireproof Letterboxes
• Show Racism the Red Card in schools
• Community House
• Two University of Leeds Research Reports
• Halton Moor Section 30 Dispersal Order
• Stephen Lawrence Education Standard Award
• Cultural Exchanges
• 12. Workshops with Schools

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Key Initiatives

• Bollywood Production
• Two Operation Champions
• Establishing a Local Residents Group
• Work of the East Divisional Hate Crime Group
• North East Divisional Scrutiny Panels
• BME Representation on the Halton Moor Hate Crime
  Group
• Local Partnership Newsletter
• North East Divisional Police Hate Crime Policy
  Review
• Hate Crime Protocol Guide for Police
• PCSO Mobile Phone Pilot (London Initiative)
• Initial Response Visits
• Reassurance Visits

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Measurable Outcomes

• Almost negligible level of hate crime and
  community tensions reports.
• Reports now focus more on general anti-social
  behaviour (such as youths playing football in
  street, youths congregating, minor thefts from
  gardens and graffiti tags)
• Improved offenders management through improved
  gathering of intelligence

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Measurable Outcomes

• Better communication with partners have led to
  coordinated targeting of offenders. With tenancy
  enforcement, criminal charges or anti-social
  behaviour legislation.
• Positive feedback from residents
• Seen as a model of good practice and now used in
  Gipton
• Establishment of local residents groups

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Community Feedback

• IT HAS BEEN A LOT QUIETER ON THE ESTATE SINCE
  THE ORDER HAS BEEN INTRODUCED AND I HAVE HAD NO
  INCIDENTS SINCE JANUARY

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Community Feedback

• I THINK THAT THE ORDER HAS HAD A GOOD EFFECT, IT
  IS VERY NOTICABLE THAT THE YOUTHS ARE NOT
  GATHERING AS MUCH AS THEY WERE
• Resident

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Community Feedback

• I FEEL IT HAD DEFINITELY HAD A VERY POSITIVE
  EFFECT AND I CAN SEE THE RESULTS ON THE ESTATE.
  IN MY OPINION IT IS IMPORTANT THAT SOMETHING
  REMAINS IN PLACE
• Resident

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Community Feedback

• SINCE THE ORDER HAS BEEN IN PLACE THE ESTATE IS
  NOTICEABLY QUIETER AND THE INCIDENTS OF ANTI
  SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR HAVE GREATLY REDUCED, I REALLY
  HOPE IT CONTINUES
• Resident

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Conclusion

• Halton Moor estate once had the unenviable
  reputation of being one of the city hotspot areas
  for racial harassment and intimidation.
• By adopting the racism reduction agenda through
  effective enforcement action, community
  devolvement work and the support of local
  residents, it has been possible to make a
  tangible difference reducing the incidents of
  racially motivated hate crime over the last 18
  months.

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Conclusion

• The cultural and socioeconomic problems within
  the Halton Moor estate still remain and it would
  be naive and premature to assume that all racist
  incidents will not reoccur.
• Therefore, it is essential that the work of the
  group is sustainable and supported both verbally
  and financially .

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Questions and Answers