Problem Oriented Partnerships Conferences - reducing & preventing crime in the community

In York Room

The Farringdon Park estate in Preston is within the top 10% of deprived communities in England. A scan of Police and partner data indicated that crime, ASB and drug reports were high. New tenancies were unsustainable, the local community, via meetings, highlighted that whilst drug use and dealing were at the heart of the problem, crime, ASB and fear of crime was attributable to gangs from neighbouring estates.

This workshop will demonstrate that effective neighbourhood policing using Problem Oriented Partnership and National intelligence models (MOPPIN) could be fused successfully to achieve our objectives. Achievements included Reductions in crime: (49%) and call to service (34%) CGA void cost reductions (72%) ASBO/Closure/Dispersal data. Hot spots redesigned, CCTV installed. Option appraisal completed (decision to demolish poorly designed flats and turn into family homes) Gang/drug culture disrupted

In London Room

Despite significant and sustained reductions in crime in Hastings, overtly negative media coverage, both on a local and national level, contributed to a disproportionate fear of crime amongst the public. Fear of Crime Surveys over the last few years show a trend of a third of respondents each year feeling unsafe in their neighbourhoods and in the town centre due to "reports of crime in the media"

The Safer Hastings Partnership's Public Reassurance agenda includes: an innovative, award-winning 11-screen TV network, broadcasting more than 3.5 million community safety messages. An interactive website, voted Best Community Site by residents; schools competitions each attracting more than 200 entries and engaging with young people on issues such as anti-social behaviour. The partnership has achieved: 19.9% and 13.4% increases in the number of residents who feel safe walking alone at night in their neighbourhood and the town centre respectively. Evaluation of the Partnership's TV network reveals a 20% increase in the number of residents who know that crime is falling in Hastings.

In Salisbury Room

This workshop explores how the Quinton E.S.C.A.P.E. project team formed a broad and comprehensive Partnership in an area suffering from deprivation and Crime. The team utilised the S.A.R.A. model of problem solving and with cross-community engagement designed a 100 point plan of action. The plan was implemented by a multitude of task owners and through a real time monitoring process was adapted to suit changing needs. The project changed local perceptions, built a stronger feeling of community and brought older and younger people together in a way that led to a sustained reduction of Crime and an E.S.C.A.P.E. from a spiral of decline. Lessons learned and exit strategies will be included together with experiences in obtaining funds and keeping people engaged.

In Oxford Room

One of our main challenges is to ensure the public to feel safe in their community and reduce their fear of crime. A key contributory factor to success is effective engagement with the public both to identify their concerns and to raise awareness of the work that is being carried out. The aim of the interactive workshop is to explore the potential that exists for engaging the community in problem solving.

In Gladstone Room

Are you relatively new to the field of crime and disorder reduction? Have you picked your way through the minefield of acronyms and shapes and wondered what all these girls' names and triangles are all about? This workshop may be a solution to your problems! This session will provide the background to problem-oriented policing and partnerships and describe the main techniques used. During the workshop the facilitators will provide an explanation of the SARA problem solving model, and other techniques that support it. It is an interactive session and will enable you to explore with others, any questions and problems that you have. Experts are warned that this session is not designed for those who already have an MA in the field!

In Wellington Room

The workshop will explore what the national standards will mean for partnership working. The role of the guidance document, currently being developed by the Home Office in conjunction with stakeholders, in supporting partners achieve the national standards will also be discussed. Specific attention will be paid to the following issues:>

• Benefits of the national standards and the guidance to support the implementation
• Key challenges partners may face implementing the guidance
• Possible means of overcoming the challenges identified

In Churchill Room

Our presentation in relation to ACCESS is divided into 3 sections:

Access IN the Community - Steve Croshaw, a PCSO from Nuneaton will share with you how he and his team work closely with partner agencies right in the heart of the community - in a satellite station in the local primary school.

Access BY the community - Ruth Sherwin, another PCSO from Nuneaton will talk in detail about the excellent work she is doing with the church youth club to reduce ASB and provide activities for the youths. She will guide you through her 'recipe for success' and also touch on the great proposals to renovate the local rec.

Also Steve Croshaw is going to tell you how he has tapped into a group we would all agree are 'hard to reach' - teenagers and young adults. Our budding song writer will tell you more....

Access WITH the community - finally one of our local residents - a truly empowered member of the community will tell you about 'Denis'. This is a great result achieved by the community, the local Safer Neighbourhoods team, and our partners - working together to solve a problem.

In London Room

The workshop will address this question from two perspectives - the characteristics of the analyst and the local, regional and national contexts within which they work including the National Intelligence Model levels 1-3 and the police or local authority/CDRP context.

The necessary personal knowledge and skills will be discussed with those attending the workshop and some consensus will be aimed for. Finally the workshop will offer the opportunity to discuss the skills and characteristics of the boss of 'a good problem solving crime analyst' and the extent to which they can help or hinder the analysis process - so do come and have your say!

In York Room

This workshop will give a brief overview of an evaluation framework and a range of evaluation tools that can be used in the evaluation of POP. Some of the key challenges in either undertaking or commissioning an evaluation will be discussed and delegates will be encouraged to apply the evaluation framework to a local initiative and identify the actions they will take to initiate an evaluation.

In Gladstone Room

The workshop will cover

• The criteria used to identify partnerships for an offer of support
• How the programme is tailored to suit the needs of the particular partnership
• The process of support programmes
• Who's involved in support programmes
• Following up partnership support programmes
• Outcomes from partnership support programmes

In Oxford Room

The workshop will explore:

• How problem solving is used in delivering a "week of action".
• How the problem solving approach can help mainstream community safety
• How the problem solving approach through weeks of action can help foster community engagement and involvement and
• How the problem solving approach through weeks of action will deliver sustainable improvements for communities.

In Wellington Room

This workshop will provide delegates with the opportunity to learn about the National Community Safety Network (NCSN), the services it provides and the policy work that it has engaged in to date. It will also offer the opportunity for delegates from all organisations to discuss with NCSN how it can improve the support and services it currently provides to its members and any ideas that might improve networking opportunities for community safety practitioners in the UK.

In Gladstone Room

This workshop will be run by the Home Office Criminal Damage Reduction Team. It will provide an overview of a number of problem-solving approaches to tackling criminal damage, including brief descriptions of some Tilley award entrants that cover the subject. We hope to be able to have some presentation input from practitioners, but this is yet to be confirmed. We will give a national level overview of the nature of the problem (and the diversity of criminal damage) and what we are doing in the area. But we hope the session will feature as much discussion as possible with attendees about their experiences of tacking criminal damage; their knowledge of the problem; barriers to successful implementation; and so on.

In Salisbury Room

Community safety practitioners have hitherto lacked a time-limited approach of demonstrable effectiveness to deploy in their most challenging areas. Area partnership interventions provide such an approach via a series of targeted actions focused in areas with multiple crime and anti-social behaviour problems. The aim is to implement a high profile partnership initiative that combines intensive targeting of offenders, community reassurance and environmental improvements.

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In Churchill Room

Young people are a strategic priority for the police service. National Standard Incident Recording (NSIR) shows that the single largest numbers of call from the public relate to 'youth nuisance' or youth related issues.

ACPO Youth Issues Group (YIG), have developed, a Youth Strategy that has been supported by Chief Constables' Council.

Based on the ACPO Youth Strategy, ACPO (YIG), have also developed, in conjunction with the YJB, the Neighbourhood Policing Team and other partners a Youth Toolkit to prevent, deter and detect youth crime at the neighbourhood level. The toolkit is focused on identifying children and young people at high-risk of turning to criminality or antisocial behaviour and, with partner agencies, children and young people themselves and their families, to actively support a change in their behaviour or to deal with them effectively through the criminal justice system.

The Youth Toolkit seeks to adopt a pragmatic and focused approach to identify children and young people who are at highest risk.

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In Salisbury Room

In 2002, a London Metropolitan Police Service study revealed that drivers of illegal minicabs committed over 200 reported sexual offences between October 2001 and September 2002, including the rape of 54 women. The number of sexual assaults in illegal minicabs was rising and forming a substantial proportion of those sexual assaults in London committed by offenders not previously known to the victim. This was a serious problem affecting Londoners and visitors to London. Statistics showed that unlicensed minicabs provided a cover for other serious crime in London as well and local isolated responses were having a limited effect. Traditionally, the response would be to focus on detecting and apprehending the offender. Little else was being done to address the other elements of the problem analysis triangle, i.e. victim and location. A coordinated, systematic and broader approach was used to address all elements resulting in a decrease in sexual assaults, including rape.

In Wellington Room

This workshop will give a brief overview of the history of the Tilley Awards and seek to clarify the difference between problem solving and problem-oriented working. A run through of the marking criteria will be carried out together with feedback from the sift and judging panel to highlight what they are looking for when marking an entry. Delegates will leave with some golden rules to submitting an entry for future Tilley Awards and a check list of 'killer' questions their entries should consider addressing.

In Oxford Room

A constable employed as a Beat Manager for Nottingham City Children's Residential Homes as a joint partnership arrangement with Children's Services and Nottinghamshire Police to work towards improving the life chances of the most disaffected young people in our society. To reduce the offending and victimisation of the young people with a consistent approach from Children's Services and the Police.