Profiling activity and spend on drug market disruption: example

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Types of activity and specific actions

Area and coverage

Spend

Activity and Outputs

Outcome projected

Supply Side Actions

Community Policing:

Provision of new police base on x estate and one additional officer

 

X estate in Y town.

Centre of identified drug supply hotspot.

Community of 10,000

Police office in shop conversion.

Capital: £67,000

Constable.

Revenue: £38,000

12 community liaison events

6 talks to residents or youth groups

Community belief and confidence in local Policing strategy.

Greater intelligence on drug supply within area. Increase in effective operations with successful prosecution.

Overall reduction in drug supply.

Increased resident satisfaction.

Reduction in overt supply.

Reduction in closed market supply.

Reduced access to class A drugs.

Community organisations:

Grant aid to x-estate community association

 

X estate, as above

£10,000 for running costs, printing and publicity

Community association to host 6 community consultation events and residents meetings

Offer support and advice to residents affected by supply in neighbouring properties

Increased residents satisfaction.

Increased rate of resident involvement in reporting incidents and residents actions.

Resident support for Police activity.

Reduction in overt drug supply.

Civil enforcement:

Anti-social behaviour officer with Zville Housing Association

Z ville HA properties in Zville and Y town

Revenue: £30K

Worker to handle all incidents of drug nuisance in HA properties.

To work closely with Police in handling reports of sales and offer mediation and other housing interventions up to notice of seeking possession

Civil powers used effectively to control anti-social behaviour.

Reduction in incidents and action against known problem tenants.

Increased resident satisfaction.

Reduction in closed supply from private houses

Situational crime prevention:

CCTV in B street, A borough

New fence on AA youth club, Zville

 

CCTV £70K

Fence: £18k

CCTV to control known supply market at rear of club on B street.

Fence to stop local youths using Youth club premises for drug use and exchange

Reduction in open drug sales.

Displacement of market.

Closure of unregulated public space.

Displacement of opportunity to acquire drugs and use drugs

Drug related crime:

       

Demand activities

Enhancements to treatment:

Gateway worker on Y estate

Y estate (10,000 people)

Revenue: £35,000

Gateway/Outreach worker on Y estate to make contact with known users out of contact with drug services buying from local market to encourage into treatment

Reduction in demand for local supply

Reduction in offending to pay for supply.

Reduction in size of local market

Work with young people:

Youth worker working with high risk group involved in drug supply running

G estate, Toptown

Revenue: £8000

Fixed number of part time youth work sessions offering structured diversionary activity for identified group referred by Police for involvement in running drugs

Diversion of specific individuals involved in supply from exposure to negative role models and greater involvement in criminal culture.

Reduction in personnel involved in drug supply and future drug users.

Other:

       

 

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