Street Crime Initiative The Merseyside Experience

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Superintendent Carl Krueger Inspector Andy
Shakeshaft Merseyside Police
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Violent Crime Reduction

• The Street Crime Initiative
• Partnership Working
• Joint Intelligence
• Joint Action
• Joint Accountability
• Joint Success

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Street Crime InitiativeA targeted high profile
partnership success story?
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Background

• April 2002 Street Crime Initiative Launch
• 10 Forces Selected
• In April 2002 there were 384 robberies in the
  month

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The achievement

• 55 fall in street crime
• Criminal Justice Process improvement
• Transferable benefits to other crime type
  management

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CDRPs do they work?

• A meeting - to do what?
• Talking shops
• Delivery
• Performance management
• Accountability
• Joint and joined up action?
• Added value?

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MAG/JAG what is it?

• Multi Agency Group - MAG
• Joint Agency Group - JAG
• Local Joint Agency Group (BCU Level)

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Partners -who are they?

• Police
• Local Authority
• Housing trusts
• Criminal Justice Agencies
• YOT and DAAT
• Connexions
• Merseytravel
• Fire Service
• Voluntary Sector - Neighbourhood Watch, Witness
  Service

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Who could be part of the solution?
Orgs involving risk groups
CPS Courts
Benefits Agency
Individual awareness
Police
Housing
Fire other emergency Services
Health
transport companies BTP
Local Authorities
Reduce Street Crime
Addiction Support
NACRO
Govt. Office N West
Home Office
Probation Service
Connexions
Safer Merseyside Partnership
Bus. Crime Direct shops/businesses
School Universities
Licensees
Social services
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JAG Support Team (JST)Roles and Responsibilites

• To provide an ANALYTICAL FUNCTION to support the
  direction of the Local JAGs
• To act as a MULITAGENCY DATA COLLECTION point for
  the Merseyside Area
• To IDENTIFY PRIORITIES, MONITOR PERFOMANCE and
  PREPARE REPORTS for the Central JAG, MAG and
  CDRPs
• To ADMINISTER THE POPO SCHEME and manage the JAG
  IT Case Management System

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WHAT the JST provide

• Performance Updates
• To inform MAG and Central JAG of current position
• Used to focus Local JAG resources
• Opportunity Strategy
• Provides strategic direction to the MAG/JAG
  process on the main issues facing Merseyside and
  direction for the preceding 12 months
• Environmental Scan
• Identifies issues on the horizon affecting
  multiagency crime and disorder reduction
• Local liaison
• First point of contact for partnership data
  collection and good practice
• Ad Hoc research and analysis
• Truancy sweep

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TEAM WORK APPROACH
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Policing is too important to be left to the
police
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Case Study 1

• Problem
• 9 year old boy committing 5 robberies
• education/truancy issues
• at risk register
• acquisitive crime recidivist
• health issues
• criminal parents-pending imprisonment

• Menu of interventions
• Truancy watch
• CCTV business watch
• social services assistance
• identification of improved education facilities
• No further offences during the menu of
  interventions

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Case study 2

• Problem -armed robbery / offender at large
• Intelligence sharing - tracing pregnant partner
• Action - arrest in hospital grounds

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Hard Statistics - robbery fell
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Robberies per day
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Criminal Justice Performance
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Case Study 3

• Mischief Night (30th October)
• Escalating problem
• Cultural issue- OK to cause havoc
• Radical solution required to break the cycle
• Problem profile- describes problem
• Plan- 56 agencies
• Focus effort-implement plan
• Record activity
• Results analysis

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Mischief Night Partnership Action

• Primary delivery agencies-
• Youth First
• Trading Standards
• Youth and Community
• Environmental Services
• Knowsley Housing Trust
• Neighbourhood Wardens
• Police

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Results

• Calls for service down 26
• Recorded crime down 36
• Disorder incidents down 16
• Overall total down 26

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Public Reassurance

• Increasing public confidence, satisfaction and
  reassurance goes hand in hand with partnership
  crime and disorder reduction-
• very worried about violent crime 16
• feel very safe in area 92
• very satisfied with police service 69
• very confident in Merseyside police 67
• Source Management Information Analysis
• Merseyside is one of only eight UK forces rated
  excellent in reassurance activities
• Source HMIC Baseline Assessment- Grading
  2004

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The challenges

• Overcoming cultural barriers to information
  sharing
• Showing partners how they benefit
• Doing more quicker without more resources
• Whole system approach
• Government scrutiny

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Lessons learned

• JAG Support Team
• Need for strategic buy in that turns talk into
  action
• Transferability of the process
• Compatibility of IT systems?
• Information sharing protocols
• Internal communication
• Trust
• Community involvement

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Broader application

• Other crime types/offender management
• Tower/CJIP
• Prolific and other Priority Offenders
• Anti-social Behaviour
• Tackling Reassurance

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Positive Comments

• Streets Ahead..(JAG) in Merseyside used good
  communication processes linked to action and
  accountability to deliver services in a focused
  way
• Yvette Cooper.The Multi Agency Group, with
  its sense of purpose and direction has greatly
  improved relationships between criminal justice
  agencies,local authorities,private industry and
  the voluntary sector.

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Outcome - Street crime fell by 55 over 2 years
and has continued to fall !
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Any Questions ?