Agenda item

To review progress made against the 2024/5 Community Safety Partnership priorities and the findings from the 2023/24 Strategic Assessment.

The committee received a report on the Southwark Community Safety Partnership Priorities and Refreshed Plan covering the following points and discussed the following questions

• Influence of Casey Review on the MET and partnership working - Policing Oversight Board
• Local policing accountability- diverse range of representation on the Policing Oversight Board
• Social media and Misogyny & VAWG related offences – Online child abuse and sexual exploitation teams (police)
• Robberies and theft of personal items (on street) – Dulwich area higher in cases, areas mainly NW of borough, priority policing in these areas
• No. of community wardens correlated with VAWG, personal theft, types of crimes – Community wardens’ investment, body cams, Wardens mainly a protective force.
• PAN London- Community Safety Document (Mayor’s police and crime plan in consultation) and its correlation to Southwark’s Community Safety Partnership Strategy and the Southwark 2030 Strategy.
• Drugs prevalence in the community- effectiveness of strategy: supply of drugs, taking drugs, detection by police and Southwark 2030 commitments in this regard – Southwark’s Drug Action Plan- Tackling supplier routes and decreasing demand through Public Health Campaigns.
• Chair’s comment- Prevalence of general substance use – street drinkers Camberwell and Camberwell Green.
• Holistic approach- Glasgow example drug consumption centre- NHS comment Change, Grow, Live charitable organisation provides drug services in Southwark.
• Southwark 2030 connected/aligned to CSP - reducing ASB and Crime.
• Investment areas in CCTV and effectiveness (covering hoods and scarves) – resident buildings area need CCTV, defecating and intravenous drug use. Providing good evidence to MET for prosecuting traffic incidents.
• Bad driving and road violence (ASB) not mentioned in strategy – Deployment of live facial recognition, identifying registered sex offenders in BCUs; ANPR operations for vehicle offences (PAN London)
• Guidelines for responsible use of live facial recognition, civil liberties impact - Facial Recognition Centrally controlled team running pilot phase.
• Plans for building public confidence in policing- More engagement with community- empowering the public through community led events (cabinet paper).
• Early Intervention and preventing crime plan- 71 nighttime safety spaces and youth services need more advertising
• Process after dealing drugs reported on estates – Monitoring areas that are reported, drug dealing and use should be reported to police not council.
• Different languages posters for phone thefts on roads – look up look out posters in hotspots. Tik-Tok drives, dedicated resource fore-newsletters
• Third party crime reporting by council officers in housing team to the police
• Community Payback Scheme numbers and projects – probation delivery unit has 1300 people supervised in custody and the community. Several community payback projects
• Pan London policing, prevention of radicalisation of young men- Counter terrorism work done more locally, Homicides- specialist murder investigations team – gun and knife crime
• Final CSP plan to come back to OSC

Violence against women’s forum – OSC to assess VAWG forum work and events progress (subject to approval from senior officers)