Targeted Policing
Round One Project Summaries
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Police in partnership with Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has been granted £431k for a project aimed at reducing acquisitive crime by targeting prolific offenders and handlers of stolen goods. The project will help identify good practices for reducing crime that can be incorporated into the further phases of the initiative and mainstream Police Operations.
Northumbria
Northumbria Police In Partnership With Tynedale District Council, Local Parish Councils And The Northumberland Social Services And Probation Service, Have Been Granted £40k For A Project To Develop An Integrated Strategy To Tackle Crime And Disorder In Rural Towns And Remote Villages. The Project Will Tackle Both Localised Offending And Crime Resulting From Travelling Criminals. A Local Multi-Agency Safety Group Will Develop Intelligence About Offenders And Identify ‘Hot Spots’. The Project Will Employ A Range Of Interventions Including A Mobile Police Station And The Use Of Cctv.
London
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The Metropolitan Police in partnership with the London Borough of Hackney has been granted £760K towards a targeted crime reduction programme in Dalston town centre. By developing a multi-agency approach the project aims to significantly reduce crime and the fear of crime caused mainly by drug dealing.
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The Metropolitan Police in partnership with the London Boroughs of Islington, Camden and Southwark has been granted £597 towards a project targeting autocrime through Operation Arrow, which is aimed at ‘hot spots’ in the three boroughs.
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The Metropolitan Police, in partnership with the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Merton, have been awarded £500k to tackle racism, and to increase confidence in policing amongst ethnic minorities. Proposals to extend this to Greenwich and Tower Hamlets are being developed. Various methods of tackling offenders, of working with victims and witnesses and of building safer communities will be tested.
Kent
Kent County Constabulary in partnership with the Medway Council Unitary Authority and the Medway Housing Society has been granted £450K to help produce a significant and sustained reduction in Medway’s acquisitive crime problem and market for stolen goods. The project is employing a range of interventions including targeting known offenders, installing tracking devices, paying regular visits to known outlets and using the local media.
Wales
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South Wales Police in partnership with the Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council, Children in Wales and the Prince’s Trust has been granted £500K to run a project aimed at reducing the levels of absconding, offending and nuisance behaviour of young people in local authority care. The project also aims to reduce the risk of children in care becoming victims of crime and substance misuse. It will link with individual childcare plans and work closely with residential staff in ensuring vulnerable children and young people within the target group are offered an individual programme of support.
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South Wales Police in partnership with Cardiff County Council and a number of other local organisations including the Bro Taf Health Authority, Victim Support, South Glamorgan Probation Service, South Glamorgan Education Department, Race Equality First and Safer Cardiff, has been granted £500k towards at project aimed at reducing alcohol related violence in Cardiff. The project aims to identify and challenge offenders. It will establish a multi-agency approach to the problem and create a licensee’s forum through which it will support and advise staff in licensed premises. In addition it will conduct an awareness campaign and encourage the reporting of offending.
West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire Police in partnership with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council has been granted £159K to run a project aimed at identifying crime ‘hotspots’ in Calderdale, reducing vehicle crime and increasing the detection rate of such crimes. The crime partnership will work with a range of public and private organisations to encourage the use of longer term preventive measures.
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West Yorkshire Police has also been granted £483k to help them roll-out across the force the lessons they have learned from a project run in Killingbeck (Leeds) on tackling domestic violence, and to apply those lessons to other forms of hate crime including racist and homophobic incidents. The project involves a graded response that includes working with both the victims and offenders.
Humberside
Humberside Police in partnership with Kingston-upon-Hull City Council has been awarded a grant of £377K for a project aimed at reducing the level of anti-social and low level criminal behaviour in Bransholme - one of the largest social housing estates in Western Europe. The project aims not only to reduce crime and the fear of crime but also to help residents rebuild their community. It will tackle the problems in Bransholme by using a mobile police station, high visibility policing, concentrating resources on high crime areas, involving the community and employing a liaison officer to maximise and manage the multi-agency resources and services which will be made available to deal with immediate problems.
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Last update: 08/09/03