Crime Reduction Programme
Targeted Policing: Round Two Project Summaries
Avon & Somerset Constabulary, Central Bristol
(TPI2/SW/01)
Robbery and the fear of crime – £1,005,000
A range of interventions aimed at the victim (including education, diversion and restorative justice); the location (target hardening, evidence gathering and environmental / situational improvements); and the offender (including diversion, targeting and restorative justice).
Contact: Superintendent Dave Johnston
Bristol HQ CID, Community Safety Group
Trinity Road Police Station
St. Philips Police HQ, BS2 0NW
Tel: 0117 945 5767
Avon and Somerset Constabulary (TPI2/SW/19)
Confiscations – £275k
Increasing the numbers and effectiveness of confiscations imposed by the courts to impact on a wide range of crimes including burglary and distraction burglary; cheque and card fraud; organised vehicle crime; and shoplifting.
Contact: A/Det Ch Supt David Edwards
Avon & Somerset Police
PO Box 37, Valley Road
Portishead, Bristol BS20 8QJ
Tel: 01275 818181
Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridge South
(TPI2/E/02)
Cycle theft – £167k
A university-wide cycle registration scheme has been set up, accompanied by a poster campaign. Different types of secure cycle parking are being tested and a location for a secure cycle park researched.
Contact: Simon Nuttall
Parkside Police Station
Cambridge, CB1 1JG
Tel: 01223 358966
Cheshire Constabulary, Force wide (TPI2/NW/21)
Robbery in rural areas – £186k
The project aims to tackle the problem of robbery in a rural area, particularly crimes against small local businesses. The funding will cover a dedicated crime analyst to look at trends and a media campaign to raise awareness locally.
Contact: Det Superintendent Tim Woolly
Community Partnership
Cheshire Constabulary
Castle Esplanade, Chester
CH1 2PP
Tel: 01244 614566
Rural Crime Toolkit
Cumbria Constabulary, Force wide (TPI2/NW/12)
Violent crime in public places – £637k
A county-wide violent crime co-ordinator to collate the research, evaluation and response from various agencies. Area-based fora to identify current trends provided by the violent crime co-ordinator, so that the partners can develop cohesive solutions to target the problems. Also, development of a three-tier strategy to deal with violent offenders.
Contact: Insp. A. Shaddock
Police HQ, Carleton Hall
Penrith
Cumbria, CA10 2AU
Tel: 01768 217 294
Derbyshire Constabulary, Force wide (TPI2/EM/10)
Drugs – £317k
Mapping of drug markets with a view to creating a dynamic approach to tackling the problem. It should enable identification of key targets and routes of supply and analysis of information about the market, so as to produce an individual strategy for each market.
Contact: Detective Inspector M. Astill
Police HQ, Butterley Hall, Ripley
Derbyshire, DE5 3RS
Tel: 01773 570100 ext. 2140
Derbyshire Police (with other forces), Force wide
(TPI2/EM/13)
Distraction burglary – £168k
A project to undertake research into the distraction burglary problem: its true extent, how offenders target victims and how offenders can be deterred once they have selected a potential target.
Contact: Operation Liberal: 01773 522062
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, Force wide
(TPI2/SW/10)
Violent crime linked to alcohol abuse – £950k
Immediate support for victims of domestic violence at hospital A&E Departments. Tackle on- and off-licensed premises selling alcohol to those under the legal age limit. Media campaign to publicise negative effects of alcohol. Provide youth workers to work with those misusing alcohol. Provide education about alcohol. Create an Alcohol Assessment Stabilisation Programme in conjunction with an arrest referral scheme. Management of the licensing environment. Creation of a Safety Advisory Group to provide guidance and advice.
Contact: Superintendent P K Bunt
Truro Police Station
Tregolls Road, Truro, TR1 1PY
Tel: 01872 326003
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, East Devon
(TPI2/SW/16)
Offender targeting for anti-social behaviour – £81k
Use of existing IT and resources to identify prolific criminals, so that they can then be tackled by a "joined up" targeted approach.
Contact: Sergeant 2361 Moore
District HQ, North Street
Exmouth, Devon, EX8 1JZ
Tel: 01395 226129
Greater Manchester Police, North Trafford
(TPI2/NW/22)
Commercial crime – £456k
Crime Prevention Best Practice Estates to be established as role models for other estates. Increased impact of the existing Trafford Park Business Watch. Establishment of a Patrol Net scheme to respond to incidents. Use of proactive police initiatives to respond to and reduce crime. Employment of an intelligence analyst who would provide a link with the Crime Scene Examination Unit.
Contact: Superintendent Adrian Lee
Stretford Police Station
Talbot Road
Stretford
Manchester, M32 0XB
Tel: 0161 856 7601
Business and Retail Crime Toolkit
Greater Manchester Police, Mosside and Longsight
(TPI2/NW/28)
Firearms – £500k
Reduction of drug- and gang-related shootings and curtailment of growing gun culture through analysis of the problem and development of appropriate interventions using a targeted, multi-agency approach.
Contact: Chief Superintendent Lilian King
Greater Manchester Police
South Manchester Division [C]
Divisional Headquarters
Elizabeth Slinger Road
West Didsbury
Manchester M20 2EG
Hampshire Constabulary, Portsmouth (TPI2/SE/17)
Witness intimidation – £411k
Working with Victim Support, identify effective measures for tackling witness intimidation, including the provision of alternative locations for witnesses to meet police, and initiatives to divert young people away from crime.
Contact: Inspector Mark Taylor
Cosham Police Station
Wayte Street, Cosham
Portsmouth, PO6 3BS
Tel: 02392 - 839333 ext. 228
Humberside Police, Scunthorpe (TPI2/YH/13)
Reduction in anti-social behaviour – £80k
Extension of North Lincolnshire Council’s "Links" system, which allows local people to access council services at a variety of centres, to include policing services, enabling a multi-agency approach to community safety concerns.
Contact: Chief Superintendent Trevor Sheard
B Division Headquarters
Shelford House, Shelford Street
Scunthorpe, DN15 6NU
Tel: 01724 274101
Kent Constabulary, North Kent (TPI2/SE/02)
Vehicle crime – £756k
Scientific support: Fire Service identification of burnt-out vehicles that merit attendance by Scene of Crime Officers. Prolific offender profiling. Improved links with the local car trade. Identification of hotspots. Increase use of IT to characterise offences. Increase enforcement opportunities.
Contact: Mr Ken Monckton
Strategic Crime Reduction Department
Kent Police, Sutton Road
Maidstone Kent ME15 9BZ
Tel: 01622 653235
Lancashire Constabulary, Blackpool (TPI2/NW/17)
Reduction in vehicle crime and anti-social behaviour –
£103k
Installation of a public address system within the town centre and at main car parks. The system will be connected to the existing CCTV monitoring room, allowing messages to be aimed at offenders or potential offenders, and at potential victims. Installation of electronic single-line information units in car parks to display warnings and crime prevention advice.
Contact: Police Constable John Roper
Community Safety & Partnerships Department
Divisional Headquarters
Bonny Street, Blackpool FY1 5RL
Tel: 01253 607244
Lincolnshire Police, Force wide (TPI2/EM/08)
Arson – £268k
A force-wide initiative aimed at addressing the increasing number of arsons and other deliberate or malicious fires, particularly in relation to vehicles.
Contact: Jon Stoddart
Lincolnshire Police
Assistant Chief Constable
PO Box 999
Nettleham
Lincolnshire LN5 7PH
Tel: 01522 532222
Merseyside Police, St Helens (TPI2/NW/01)
Vehicle crime – £397k
Reducing vehicle crime through target hardening, market reduction and tackling prolific offenders. Multi-agency approach, involving police, local authority departments, the Fire Service, the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency, to enforce regulations with regard to scrap metal dealers and second hand dealers. Identification and targeting of hotspots and prolific offenders. Re-sensitising courses for prolific offenders to re-educate them about the implications of their crimes, and increased use of DNA and other forensic techniques.
Contact: Detective Chief Insp. Arwel Williams
College Street
St. Helens
Merseyside WA10 ITG
Tel: 0151 777 6002
Merseyside Police, Force-wide (TPI2/NW/05)
Non-residential property crime – £598k
Establishment of more collaborative partnerships between CJS agencies and the business sector. The establishment of a Small Business Crime Assessment, Diagnosis and Assistance Service. Special assistance for vulnerable groups.
Contact: Superintendent S Byrne
Merseyside Police Headquarters
Canning Place
Liverpool, L69 1 JD
Tel: 0151 777 8071
Business and Retail Crime Toolkit
Merseyside Police, Knowsley (TPI2/NW/29)
Crime and disorder – £145k
A move from response-based local policing to a more proactive neighbourhood policing style, with a partnership approach providing an opportunity to scan and analyse data from a variety of sources to identify the causes and symptoms of problems.
Contact: Supt Simon Byrne
Merseyside Police HQ
Canning Place
Liverpool
L69 1JD
Tel: 0151 777 8071
Merseyside Police, Force-wide (TPI2/NW/30)
Organised and volume crime - £1.02M
Disruption of organised crime and drug distribution on Merseyside by deployment of enhanced technology for intelligence gathering and surveillance.
Contact: Norman Bettison
Chief Constable, Merseyside Police
Chief Constable's Office
PO Box 59
Liverpool
L69 1JD
Tel: 0151 777 8010
Merseyside Police (TPI2/NW/31)
Child Prostitution - £162K
A multi-agency initiative led by Barnardo's aimed at preventing children and young people from being sexually abused and exploited through prostitution. The initiative includes an education programme for schools, youth clubs and community centres; specialist training, and development of a database for monitoring, exchange of information and risk assessment.
Contact: Julie Dugdale
Assistant Director, Children's Services
Barnardo's
North West Regional Office
7 Lineside Close
Liverpool L25 2UD
Tel: 0151 488 1100
Metropolitan Police, Brent (TPI2/L/02)
Violent and drug related crime – £803k
Involving the community in developing solutions for hotspots. Shared intelligence and analysis, using of individuals from the Probation Service, Brent Council and the Police to enable the partnership to target the right people with the right interventions. Use of victim and offender profiling, and ANPR.
Contact: Inspector Terrance Bradley
Harlesden Police Station
76 Craven Park
Harlesden, London, NW10 8RJ
Tel: 020 8733 3838
Communities Against Drugs Toolkit
Metropolitan Police, Westminster/Camden (TPI2/L/04)
Drugs related crime – £2m
Partnership approach to high profile enforcement, environmental improvement and improved treatment opportunities for drug users. Interventions focused on the drugs hotspot of the Charing Cross Road area.
Contact: Chief Insp. Nick Wood
West End Central Police Station
27 Saville Row, London, W1X 2DU
Tel: 020 7321 8824
Communities Against Drugs Toolkit
Metropolitan Police, Haringey (TPI2/L/10)
Disruption and reduction in the crack cocaine and open
sex markets – £775k
Disruption of the open sex and closed drugs markets through enforcement, prevention and treatment interventions.
Contact: A/Insp. David Reed,
C/O Secretariat, Hornsey Police Station
98 Tottenham Lane
London N8 7EJ
Tel: 020 8345 1807
Communities Against Drugs Toolkit
Metropolitan Police, Hillingdon (TPI2/L/12)
Vehicle crime – £55k
Project to extend an existing scheme that offers assistance to owners of older vehicles to fit security devices.
Contact: Richard Evans
Crime Prevention Officer
Ruislip Police Station
Tel: 020 8246 1822
Metropolitan Police, Southwark (TPI2/L/20)
Hate crime – £688k
Creation of local self-help groups defined by cultural, ethnic or lifestyle profile and supported by a dedicated co-ordinator. Use of rapid hate-crime intervention officer with access to a range of evidence collection methods. Targeting behaviour/belief modification with offenders.
Contact: Sergeant David Payne
Southwark Police Partnership Unit
Southwark Police Station 323 Borough High Street
London SE1 1JL
Tel: 020 7232 6617
Metropolitan Police, Sutton (TPI2/L/21)
Anti-social behaviour and other crimes – £35k
Increased use of intelligence-gathering, surveillance and arrest to direct resources to prolific offenders. Use of anti-social behaviour, civil and repossession orders for those likely to fill the void left by the removal of the prolific offenders. Involvement of partners to improve housing allocation, pre-school education provision, and other amenities.
Contact: Supt. Bainbridge
Epsom Police Station
Church Street, Epsom
Surrey, KT17 4PS
Tel: 020 8649 0503
Metropolitan Police (TPI2/L/27)
Hate Crime – £287k
Increase the safety of Londoners through context-specific understanding of the forms of hate crime and the ability to match them with appropriate methods of investigation.
Contact: Alan West
Four Boroughs Project Manager
Metropolitan Police – Merton
Wimbledon Police Station
15 Queen's Road
London
SW19 8NN
Tel: 020 8947 1212
North Wales Police, Wrexham (TPI2/WALES/02)
Crime on an industrial estate – £188k
Appointment of an Industrial Estate Co-ordinator to evaluate the resources and equipment currently available to ensure best usage/value. To conduct research and analysis so that other security perspectives can be evaluated as the intelligence develops (e.g. linking CCTV systems to a central point).
Contact: DCI Christopher Corcoran
Divisional Police Headquarters
Bodhyfryd, Wrexham LL12 7BW
Tel: 01978 294602
Business and Retail Crime Toolkit
North Yorkshire Police (TPI2/YH/06)
Fear of crime in a rural area – £186k
A mobile police station to be used both by the police and partner agencies, providing mobile watch schemes with an effective communications network. Increased police activity.
Contact: PC Simon Caukwell
Community Safety Officer
North Yorkshire Police
Tel: 01609 767196
Northamptonshire Police, Force wide (TPI2/EM/01)
Vehicle crime – £1.095m
This project aims to implement all elements of the Vehicle Crime Reduction Strategy. The interventions include the introduction of palm-top digital organisers to provide immediate access to force intelligence systems and the PNC.
Contact: Assistant Chief Constable (Operations)
Whiteley
Police Headquarters, Wootton Hall
Wootton Hall Park, Northampton, NN4 0JQ
Tel: 01604 703007
Northumbria Police (TPI2/NE/01)
Rural Crime – £333k
A project to enhance rural policing across Northumbria using a number of initiatives, for example, target hardening, mobile CCTV, electronic policing (on-line access to the police in local communities), rural policing teams and a domestic violence co-ordinator.
Contact: Inspector Alistair Oates
Local Authority Liaison Officer
Tel: 01670-511333 Rural
Crime
Nottinghamshire Police, Force wide (TPI2/EM/11)
Alcohol related violence – £1.199m
Research into linking acts of violence to excessive consumption of alcohol. The project strategy is based on the SPEEDE response to tackling alcohol-related violence, namely, Support, Prevention, Education, Enforcement, Diversion and Evaluation.
Contact: Paul Wintour
Central Police Station
North Church Street
Nottingham, NG1 4BH
Tel: 0115 9482999 Alcohol
Related Crime
Surrey Police, Force wide (TPI2/SE/05)
Safety of hospital staff – £222k
In partnership with NHS trusts, use of a "Fear of crime" survey to measure the level of fear and provide clear areas of focus for training of hospital staff to deal with conflict. Develop and implement a security accreditation scheme in partnership with the NHS trusts.
Contact: Police Sergeant Lynette Shanks
Surrey Police HQ, Mount Browne
Sandy Lane, Guildford
Surrey
Tel: 01483 571212 ext. 2202
Sussex Police, Brighton (TPI2/SE/09)
Hate crime – £1.2m
Sussex Police, in partnership with Brighton and Hove Council and community organisations, are working to reduce homophobic and racist incidents by encouraging victims to come forward and report crime. Employment of a full-time co-ordinator to facilitate cross-agency working and improved reporting/recording systems. Expansion of the Anti-victimisation Unit with additional police staff, plus a probation worker and a witness advocate.
Contact: Superintendent Andy Bliss
Police Station, John Street
Brighton, BN2 2LA
Tel: 0845 60 70 999 ext. 52200
Sussex Police, Brighton (TPI2/SE/10)
Vehicle Crime – £706k
Identification of high risk owners; media awareness campaign; high risk vehicles to be offered security and property marking free of charge. Increase in scenes of crime examinations. Identification of hotspots. Disruption of the stolen goods and parts markets. Zero tolerance for offences committed by targeted offenders.
Contact: Ch/Inspector David Martin
Police HQ, Malling House
Church Lane
Lewes, BN7 2DZ
Tel: 01273 475432
Warwickshire Constabulary (TPI2/WM/08)
Business crime – £174k
A project to reduce commercial burglary re-victimisation through appointment of two dedicated business crime advisors, establish business watches to improve the flow of information between businesses and the police, and provide crime education for businesses.
Contact: Peter Guillaume
Business Crime Co-ordinator
Warwickshire Constabulary
Police HQ Leek Wootton
Warwick CV35 7QB
Tel: 01926 415181
Business and Retail Crime Toolkit
West Mercia Constabulary (TPI2/WM/02)
Stolen goods markets – £512k
Tackling the disposal of stolen goods by educating the public in the part they play in perpetuating acquisitive crime. The project addresses the problem in three stages – initial marketing and getting the public involved, maximising intelligence and finally hard intervention.
Contact: DCI Clive Harding
West Mercia Constabulary
Police Station
Clive Road
Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 5RW
Tel: 01743 232888 x 5747
West Midlands Police (TPI2/WM/10)
IT system – £510k
Extending the West Midlands Police's computer system (the purpose of which is to link different types of forensic evidence and intelligence) to neighbouring forces to provide cross-border co-operation.
Contact: Chris Sims
Assistant Chief Constable
West Midlands Police
PO Box 52
Colmore Circus Queensway
Birmingham B4 6NQ
Tel: 0121 6265535
West Midlands Police (TPI2/EM/11)
Antisocial behaviour and other crimes – £97k
Evaluation of the effectiveness of CATCH (Community Action Tackling Crime and Harassment) schemes linking residents and police by radio on two housing estates in Sandwell, and dissemination of the lessons learned.
Contact: Chief Superintendent John Scott
West Midlands Police
PO Box 52
Lloyd House
Colmore Circus
Queensway
Birmingham B4 6NQ
Tel: 0121 626 5000
West Yorkshire Police, Leeds (TPI2/YH/10)
Distraction burglary – £554k
Co-ordinated, multi-agency initiative to protect the elderly community. 'Face lifts' of dwelling house exteriors to make them less identifiable as being occupied by an elderly person; display of notices stating that valuables and bank accounts have been protected; third-party audit system to prevent unusual withdrawals from bank accounts belonging to elderly people. Target hardening. Improved care and support for elderly victims of distraction burglary.
Contact: Detective Chief Superintendent Brian Steele
Milgarth Police Station
Milgarth Street
Leeds LS2 7HX
Tel: 0113 2413018/2414030
Last update: 08/09/03