North Worcestershire Divisional Policing Plan 2007/08

2006/07 was an extremely successful year, during which the division continued to deliver strong performance for our communities. Recorded crime continued to fall, the fear of crime showed a sharp reduction and our performance in respect of bringing offenders to justice was impressive.

As the Constabulary's Pathfinder division for Local Policing, we have introduced Partners and Communities Together (PACT) meetings across the division. PACT meetings allow local communities to identify the priorities that they want actioning in their neighbourhood. We have also set up 30 dedicated local policing teams comprising of Local Policing Officers and Community Support Officers. Over a third of the Police Forces in England and Wales have visited the division to see how we have delivered such outstanding performance for our communities.

We will build on these successes in 2007/08 as we work with our Local Strategic Partners and Community Safety Partnership to make North Worcestershire an even safer and better place. I am confident that 2007/08 will be an even more exciting and challenging year than our highly successful 2006/07.

Mark Howard, Chief Superintendent

West Mercia Constabulary, and North Worcestershire Division in particular enjoys a very productive relationship with the Police Authority. North Worcestershire continues its thrust for policing excellence based on striving to meet the needs and demands of the communities it serves.

Cllr John Campion, Chairman, North Worcestershire Community Policing Board

Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

There are three Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships within North Worcestershire Division, covering Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wyre Forest. These partnerships bring together existing work to reduce crime and improve community safety, and act as the formal bodies to meet the requirements of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998.

During 2004/05, each partnership conducted crime and safety audits in their area. From this they produced Community Safety Strategies covering the period 2005 to 2008. The Divisional Policing Plan reflects the priorities of North Worcestershire Police and it’s partners, and highlights how the partnerships will work with the communities of North Worcestershire.

Local Area Agreement (LAA)

The Worcestershire LAA is a three year agreement that sets out the priorities for Worcestershire, and is managed by the Worcestershire Strategic Partnership. The agreement has six themes:

  • Communities that are safe and feel safe
  • A better environment for today and tomorrow
  • Economic success that is shared by all
  • Improved health and well-being
  • Meeting the needs of children and young people
  • Stronger communities

North Worcestershire Division works with its partners to resolve issues identified by the communities of Worcestershire.

Tackling Crime

Improving Satisfaction and Confidence

Police Priorities

  • Seek to improve our performance at every stage of the crime investigation process to ensure that we provide the best available evidence in every case.
  • Actively engage our partner agencies in the criminal justice system in order to ensure that more offences lead to an appropriate sanction, and more offenders are brought to justice.
  • Work with our CDRP partners and play a lead role in catching and convicting prolific and priority offenders.
  • Target Class A drug dealers with specialist and expert responses.
  • Focus on the persistent offenders who are responsible for much of our crime.
  • Maximise every opportunity to reduce crime.
  • Support partners such as Victim Support in their efforts to encourage victims to come forward.
  • Use stop/search powers to greater effect.

Police Priorities

  • Continue to work with our Diversity Steering Group to ensure we continue to build trust and confidence with minority communities and vulnerable groups across North Worcestershire.
  • Improve the service offered to victims and witnesses of crime.
  • Deal expeditiously and professionally with complaints about our services or staff conduct.
  • Promptly get news to the public to bolster community confidence and also develop new ways of doing this eg Police Portal
  • Continue to develop our understanding of ‘citizen focus’ for North Worcestershire.
  • Target the deployment of Community Support Officers and the Special Constabulary to reassure the public.
  • Improve our services in response to feedback from customer surveys.

Joint CDRP/LAA Priorities

  • Continue to work with partner agencies to reduce overall crime levels by 2008 (from 1st April 2005 - 31st March 2008), with particular emphasis on violent crime (specifically domestic violence), burglary, vehicle crime, criminal damage and theft.
  • Work with all agencies to maximise the positive impact of the five Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and other countywide partnerships such as the Safer Worcestershire Partnership in reducing crime and improving community safety.
  • Target our most prolific offenders.

Joint CDRP/LAA Priorities

  • Work with partners to increase, in hotspot areas, the percentage of residents and young people surveyed who say they feel ‘fairly safe’ or ‘very safe’ during the day and after dark within their local area.
  • Work with partners to increase community involvement in community safety
  • Promote the use of Watch Schemes

Promoting Community Safety

Protecting the Public

Police Priorities

  • Further develop our successful Partners and Communities Together meetings across the Division
  • Extend our network of local community based police offices.
  • Target areas of anti social behaviour through the deployment of Police Officers, Community Support Officers (CSOs), Neighbourhood Wardens and the Special Constabulary using all available legislative provisions.
  • Continue to provide specialist support in tackling crime in the areas of public protection including hate crime and domestic violence.
  • Encourage active citizenship in our communities by maintaining our commitment to the support and development of Neighbourhood Watch and other Safety Schemes eg Young Citizen awards.
  • Undertake co-ordinated and well-publicised enforcement campaigns in order to target alcohol related crime and disorder.
  • Work with our CDRPs, including the Crown Prosecution Service, to target repeat anti social behaviour, making use of a wide range of potential responses including Anti Social Behaviour Orders (both civil and post conviction), Acceptable Behaviour Contracts, Dispersal Orders, Fixed Penalty Notices and other new powers under the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003.
  • Target hotspots and repeat incidents.
  • Develop further communication strategies eg Police Portal
  • Work with our partners to ensure the safety of the schools in our area.
  • Work with our CDRPs, local authorities and licensees to actively manage the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 and minimise the risk of anti-social behaviour and disorder resulting from excessive alcohol.
  • Continue to work to protect vulnerable children and young people.
  • Continue to work to protect victims of domestic violence and bring offenders to justice.

Police Priorities

  • Continue to give high priority to the investigation of major, serious and organised crime, and, together with our communities, effectively manage critical incidents.
  • Continue working in partnership with other agencies and emergency services to develop and improve our joint responses to local events and incidents.
  • Continue to work with our partners to manage potentially dangerous offenders.
  • Utilise Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology to deny criminals the use of the roads
  • Work in partnership with Safety Camera Partnership in reducing the number of casualties and collisions at problem hot spot sites.
  • Continue to investigate fatal and serious road traffic collisions to the highest standard, providing high quality family liaison and support.
  • The Divisional Traffic Management Officer will work with our partners across North Worcestershire, including the Highways Authorities to introduce casualty reduction initiatives at identified sites. We will lobby for engineering solutions where appropriate

Joint CDRP/ LAA Priorities

  • Work with partners to develop a co-ordinated, multi-agency approach to tackling anti-social behaviour in North Worcestershire

Joint CDRP/ LAA Priorities

  • Maintain the Division’s ability to respond to, and investigate serious road traffic collisions, linking in with our reassurance action plan to provide increased community reassurance and satisfaction
  • Seek to improve driver behaviour through education and enforcement, focussing on factors related to the cause of accidents :
  • Poor driving standards, particularly by young or inexperienced drivers
    - Use of mobile phones whilst driving
    - Failing to wear seatbelts
    - Driving at excess speed
    - Drink driving

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