Executive Response - Burglary Review

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Post Scrutiny - Executive Response

In Respect of : Burglary in Tameside

Date : September 2011

Recommendations	Accepted / Rejected	Executive Response	Responsible	Action By (Date)
1. That burglary rates continue to be monitored and understood across the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership to inform service delivery in future.	Accepted	Burglary rates will continue to be monitored via our various NIM processes, i.e. Daily Management Meeting, Tasking & Co-ordination Group and Partnership Business Group. Tactical Activity as appropriate will be driven via these meetings. In addition following the imminent publication of the GMAC Borough Strategic Assessment it will be my intention to commission an up to date Burglary Problem Profile in order that we can better understand some of the issues highlighted in the report to ensure that our tactical activity is underpinned and directed by a clear and up to date strategy.	SAC strategic lead – Ops Superintendent – Neil Evans	Ongoing
2. That the Burglary Reduction Group plays a central role in directing resources to tackle burglary, building on the already strong partnership working in the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.	Accepted	The BRG will continue to work towards the current action plan. In addition the BRG will play a central role as the critical readers for the Problem Profile including in the formulation of recommendations. The BRG action plan will be updated appropriately in consideration of the Problem Profile once published.	SAC strategic lead – Ops Superintendent – Neil Evans	March 2012
3. That the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership make use of Customer Insight to appropriately target messages about burglary. Appropriate correspondence with residents continues to be important to reduce the number of insecure burglaries. More can be done to encourage residents to report suspicions to the Police.	Accepted	The use of Customer Insight information will be further explored as part of the development of a communications action plan for the partnership.	Community Safety officer - Julie stringer	January 2012
4. That the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership continues to work with Greater Manchester Against Crime to provide analytical support and that the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership continues to support capital hardening measures such as alley gating.	Accepted	The CDRP is currently reviewing its spending priorities and the GMAC contribution will be re-considered alongside other CDRT priorities. It is clear that there is an ongoing need for Strategic analysis to ensure best use of resources, however, all methods of delivering this need to be considered.	GMAC leads Lisa Lees and Nicola Spragg
5. That the Tameside Division of Greater Manchester Police continues to bid into force-wide resources to tackle spikes in burglary in the borough.	Accepted	Support from Force resources will be sought to address identified spikes in offending and projected seasonal increases.	SAC strategic lead – Ops Superintendent – Neil Evans	Ongoing
6. That Neighbourhood Policing Teams continue to focus on gathering intelligence and information.	Accepted	This is business as usual and will be monitored via the Divisional performance management processes.	Partnerships superintendent – Nicola Spragg	Ongoing
That adequate resources are allocated to fighting burglary in Tameside, particularly to support measures that have resulted in reductions in recent months, such as the dedicated burglary car and Batlow operation.	Accepted	The operation of the Burglary Car will continue. Bespoke resources are allocated to domestic burglary via the Volume Crime Team and additional resources, such as the Pro-Active Unit can and will be allocated dependent upon the prevailing threats and priorities at the time. Domestic Burglary remains a Divisional priority in line with the CSP.	SAC strategic lead – Ops Superintendent – Neil Evans	Ongoing
8. That councillors, police officers, PCSOs, patrollers and other officers continue to engage with residents’ groups and home watch associations, sharing information on emerging burglary threats.	Accepted	This activity will be driven by the NIM processes identified previously and Neighbourhood Action Teams	Partnerships superintendent – Nicola Spragg & Head of Community Safety – Lisa Lees	Ongoing
9. That existing and new community groups (home watch associations) are supported by the Council and Tameside Third Sector Coalition to establish a constitution, apply for funding for burglary reduction initiatives through schemes such as You Choose, and expand their membership.	Accepted	Neighbourhood Policing Units will continue to play their part in supporting existing community groups. In addition they will pro-actively seek to promote the benefit of such groups, particularly where local problems exist and ensure referrals are made to the CSP for support.	Partnerships superintendent – Nicola Spragg & Head of Community Safety – Lisa Lees	Ongoing
That neighbouring residents’ groups are supported to make links with one another and share information to help prevent burglary.	Accepted	As above.	Partnerships superintendent – Nicola Spragg & Head of Community Safety – Lisa Lees	Ongoing
11. That the IOM programme is allocated resource to identify and work with offenders outside the current IOM threshold limits and incorporate them within an extended programme.	Accepted	The CDRP will consider a report that will propose how the IOM model can be further developed for Tameside. This report will aim to address the need for targeted family focussed work with offending families and their children.	Reducing Re-offending strategic lead office – Assistant Chief Executive GM Probation, Richard Barnes	December 2011
12. That the Probation service continues to promote Community Payback and restorative justice measures to Tameside’s communities.	Accepted	The above report will also make recommendation in relation to the development of a Restorative Justice action plan for Tameside.	Reducing Re-offending strategic lead office – Assistant Chief Executive GM Probation, Richard Barnes	December 2011
13. That the Tameside Strategic Partnership supports the successful implementation of the Reducing Reoffending Strategy.	Accepted	Progress against the RRS will be reported to the TSP annually. It will be crucial that revised Partnership arrangements continue to support the implementation of cross cutting themes such as reducing re-offending.	Reducing Re-offending strategic lead office – Assistant Chief Executive GM Probation, Richard Barnes	Ongoing
14. That the Youth Offending Team takes a family-based approach to dealing with young offenders, who may come from chaotic family backgrounds. The Youth Offending Team should work closely with Youth and Family Team in terms of early intervention.	Accepted	Continue Monthly meetings with the Youth and Family Team locality Managers. Provide Secondments to the above team.	Youth Offending Team Manager - Pat Jennings	Ongoing
15. That the team continues to have access to substance misuse, speech therapy and child mental health teams and that work continues towards having dedicated officers in these areas.	Accepted	Complete a service Level agreement with Branching Out to provide Tier 2 & 3 interventions. Staff to be trained in screening for speech and language difficulties in young people. Develop referral route to SALT (Speech and Language Therapy)	Youth Offending Team Manager - Pat Jennings	January 2012
16. That the Youth Offending Team continues to develop restorative justice work.	Accepted	Allocate two YOT Practitioners to Victims and Restorative justice section of the team. Tender a service to manage volunteers to develop the above work.	Youth Offending Team Manager - Pat Jennings	October 2011
17. That the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership explores criminality thresholds to ensure that young people at risk of offending and those who have already offended are dealt with in a timely fashion by the appropriate services.	Accepted	Report on the following indicators on a quarterly basis to the CDRP; Number of First time entrants to the criminal justice system; The number of young people whom have reoffended and the number of young people who have received custodial sentences as a percentage of overall sentences in court.	Youth Offending Team manager – Pat Jennings & Head of Inclusion and Personalised Learning - Nick Caws	Ongoing
18. That the Youth and Family Team identifies ways of working more closely with registered social landlords and the Police on an operational basis to target interventions with problematic families before offences are committed.	Accepted	The next phase of the YFS redesign will focus on supporting community budgets and will support the collaborative commissioning of targeted services to meet local need.	Head of Inclusion and Personalised Learning - Nick Caws	March 2012
19. That a Family Common Assessment Framework is developed in partnership with agencies within the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, to ensure it meets the needs of all agencies working around the burglary agenda.	Accepted	The Children’s Trust has established a short-life working group to secure the embedding of common processes in the partner agencies of the Trust. This group is to explore the issue of a Family CAF at its September meeting. The results of this work will be shared with the partners agencies of the CDRP to ensure that it meets all agencies’ needs.	Assistant Executive Director Schools, Youth and Community Services - Claire Bibby	January 2012
20. That the Community Safety Unit refreshes and reviews information given to residents through the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership to tackle the persistent issue of insecurities.	Accepted	The CDRP and its partners continue to address this issue in a range of ways – suing local newspapers, civic newspaper, neighbourhood newsletters and at PACT meetings.	Head of Community Safety - Lisa Lees	Ongoing
21. That resource continues to be allocated to support alley gating for residents who wish to apply for it.	Accepted	The Community Safety resources available for alley gating will continue into 2012/13, however, beyond that date, funding availability and prioritisation will all be reviewed.	Head of Community Safety - Lisa Lees	Ongoing

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