Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

On 10 September the Home Office held a national conference on information sharing at the Millennium Conference Centre in London. A wide range of speakers talked about diverse applications of information sharing, and this well-received conference also provided an excellent opportunity for practitioners to meet with each other and exchange ideas, experiences, and concerns.

A report of the conference has been compiled and broken down into individual presentations to facilitate faster download times. Note that the full conference report can be downloaded as a single Word or PDF file from the bottom of this page.

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Chair: Jonathan Duke-Evans, Head of Action Against Crime & Disorder Unit, Home Office

• Reducing Crime & Disorder: general legal framework for information sharing
  Dr Kate Paradine, National Police Training College, Bramshill

• Only the guilty have anything to fear? Information sharing under the Data Protection Act
  Jonathan Bamford, Assistant Information Commissioner

• Effective information exchange: protocols and memoranda of understanding
  Ian Readhead, Deputy Chief Constable, Hampshire Constabulary

• Keynote address: the partnership approach and the way forward
  John Denham, Minister of State for Crime Reduction, Policing & Community Safety

• Technical solutions to facilitate information sharing
  Adrian McKeon, Infoshare Ltd

• Syndicate Group Discussions
  Tracey Sisley, Action against Crime & Disorder Unit, Home Office

• The use of information in the London Borough of Southwark: a case study
  Stan Dubeck, Grants & Community Safety Manager, London Borough of Southwark

• Questions to a panel of speakers

• Closing remarks
  Chair: Jonathan Duke-Evans, Head of Action Against Crime & Disorder Unit, Home Office