Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

The Robbery Action Plan published in June 2006 was developed to ensure that there was:

• Proactive performance management of the hotspot areas.
• Ensuring the good practice remains up to date and that it is properly embedded in all force areas, not just the former SCI ones.
• Ensuring local delivery mechanisms are focused on robbery, including involvement of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships.
• Putting a range of national support and intervention measures in place to support problem areas.
• Integration of the work of the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit (NMPCU) into the new robbery strategy.

Aims of the robbery action plan

The robbery action plan was focused around five key themes:

1. Ensuring that renewed action is focused on local areas of concern, and close working with those areas from the centre and from Government Offices.

2. Ensuring that responses are based on the best available evidence, and that practitioners and operational managers have the tools, the know how and are supported in applying the best known approaches to tackling robbery.

3. Tackling persistent robbers by plugging in to the prolific and other priority offenders programme in problem CDRP areas ensuring swift and effective enforcement combined with multi-agency rehabilitative support.

4. A new communications strategy to ensure the public are aware of measures they can take to avoid being a victim of robbery.

5. Re-invigorating our relationship with the mobile phone industry, and ensuring that the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit works with us in delivering Action Days, seminars, good practice, expert practitioners etc.

The results in London appear to have led to a significant reduction in personal robbery in 2007-8 to date (see Report on the Government Office for London Personal Robbery Project). The results elsewhere have also been significant.

Last update: Tuesday, February 24, 2009