· To note announcements or presentations from community groups
· Community safety issues and police updates for Peckham and Nunhead
· Information to community councils - complaints policy consultation (papers available at the meeting)
· Topics to be discussed at community council for 2013 – 2014 (there will be an opportunity to discuss and vote during the break)
Minutes:
The following announcements were made:
Southwark Star Awards
The chair congratulated local people and organisations that were nominated for awards at the recent Southwark Stars event. The awards went to those that were considered truly exceptional members of the community. The Peckham and Nunhead area featured in the list of exceptional people that had made a difference in other people’s lives and whose volunteering had made an outstanding contribution to their community in Southwark over the last year.
The following people from the Peckham and Nunhead area received awards:
The following organisations and community groups based in the Peckham and Nunhead also received awards:
Future themes
At a previous Peckham and Nunhead community council meeting people were given the opportunity to prioritise items and themes for future meetings. The top three priorities chosen by attendees were:
· Older people, held on 2 March 2013 at Peckham Methodist Church
· Environmental issues held on 21 November 2012 at St Mary Magdalene Church
· Children Young People, to be scheduled in September or November 2013
In addition people identified crime as a priority, because of this regular community safety updates would be considered at each meeting. Also a safer neighbourhoods’ team stall at each meeting.
Other topics identified as a priority was housing and more information about job / training opportunities for local people.
People were asked to suggest topics that they would like to discuss as themes for the following year by completing the feedback forms that were handed out at the meeting.
Presentation on community safety issues
The meeting received an update on community safety issues in the local area.
Sergeant Jenkinson from Livesey safer neighbourhood team gave a brief overview of what has happened since the last meeting:
· The Lane neighbourhood team executed drug warrants after a large quantity of cannabis was seized and taken away to a forensics science lab. The team were awaiting evidence to substantiate whether the person involved was supplying the drugs.
· Joint operation with the CID with regard to stolen mobile phones in the Rye Lane area. The team want to establish whether some shops in Rye Lane were handling stolen goods as it was reported that some stolen phones were from street robberies. The team are focussing on those shops in conjunction with trading standards on a problem solving basis. Sgt Jenkinson mentioned the SNT would monitor the situation with assistance from trading standards to check whether their stock was legitimate.
· Community safety officers had been involved in personal safety talks with elderly residents on their ward focussed on deception type burglary. This involved individuals that claimed to be from various building firms or water board companies.
· The Nunhead neighbourhood team executed warrants and seized class A drugs at a property, the person they were looking for had turned up at the address and further drugs were confiscated from the individual. This was an overall success for the team as they continue to tackle this problem.
· The Peckham neighbourhood team executed drug warrants at Meeting House Lane and Pennethorne Road.
Sgt Jenkinson then talked about the introduction of the local safer neighbourhood teams in the Peckham area where all five teams had joined together with an emphasis on patrolling and dealing with crimes. Each SNT ward will have a beat officer and one dedicated PCSO. He reported that a recent police press release stated that 2600 police officers would be assigned into the safer neighbourhood teams across London which would mean their roles and responsibilities including the investigation of neighbourhood crime would change as well.
The neighbourhood inspector would have the flexibility to direct dedicated police officers unrestricted across ward boundaries especially where there was an increase in crime so it could be tackled quickly. The sergeant explained there would be contact points for people to gain access to police services. Also front line offices at Walworth Police Station would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Peckham Police Station would be open from 7 am to 11 pm and Southwark Police Station open from 10 am until 6 pm. There would be additional contact points at the Kingswood office, Bellenden Road, Canada Water Library and Dulwich Library.
The sergeant outlined the police objectives until 2015 which was to cut crime by 20%, improve police confidence by 20%, and cut costs by 20%.
Sgt Jenkinson took questions from the audience. The chair thanked the presenter and announced that future arrangements on local policing would be announced officially by the Mayor of London in June.
The chair mentioned there was a public meeting on 27 June 2013 at 29 Peckham Road where Police Inspector, Rob Harper would provide a full update on these proposals.