Tameside Crime and Disorder Audit 2005

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Tameside Crime & Disorder Audit 2005
Executive Summary 2 INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND
This document presents the main findings of the recent Crime and
Disorder Audit of Tameside – the third to be completed by the Partnership
since introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998). The key
findings will be used to set priorities for the forthcoming Crime and
Disorder Reduction Strategy (2005-08)
In order for the CDRP to clearly demonstrate the links between the
forthcoming Strategy and the Tameside Community Strategy, the audit
has been written to reflect the six key themes of the Community
Strategy, these are:
❖ Supportive Communities ❖ A Safe Environment
❖ A Prosperous Society ❖ A Learning Community
❖ A Healthy Population ❖ An Attractive Borough
Since the last Strategy, membership of the Crime and Disorder
Partnership (CDRP) has grown to include Primary Care Trusts (PCT).*
This means that this Audit includes crime, disorder and substance
misuse (drugs and alcohol) information. There have been many other
changes which includes:
❖ Neighbourhood Policing. The map (right)
shows how Tameside has been divided
into ‘Neighbourhoods’ each with a
dedicated team of police officers working
alongside Tameside Patrollers Service
❖ National Intelligence Model (NIM)
This has changed the way Partners deal
with criminal and antisocial behaviour
❖ Strategic Threat Assessments (STA) – this enables the Partnership to
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regularly review emerging trends
*PCT functions include improving the health of the community, developing primary and community health
services and commissioning secondary care (hospital) services 4 OVERALL CRIME IN TAMESIDE
Since 2001/02 total key crimes have fallen in Tameside by 18%, which is
shown on the graph below
We know that the biggest decreases have been in:
❖ Domestic Burglaries (34%) ❖ Theft from Vehicles (31%)
❖ Other Burglaries (26%) ❖ Theft of Vehicles (49%)
❖ Personal Robbery (35%) ❖ Criminal Damage (11%)
❖ Theft from Person (30%)
These figures reflect the impact of a number of Partnership activities,
such as:
❖ Targeting prolific offenders
❖ Getting people into drug treatment faster
❖ Improving security in people’s homes
❖ Continuing with the Alleygating scheme
❖ Extension of the town centre CCTV systems
❖ Increasing the number of Tameside Patrollers on the street
❖ Improvements in the Police detection rates
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❖ Targeting of crime hotspot areas
❖ Intelligence led policing 6 PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE LAST STRATEGY
It is important that we measure how well the Partnership has performed
against the targets set in the last Strategy. This not only indicates
successes – it also gives us an idea of possible priorities for the
forthcoming Strategy.
What we said we would do by the end What whe have done (based on 2004/05
of March 2005 performance compared to 2001/02)
Reduce offending amongst those The Prolific Offenders Project now works hand-
participating in the Prolific Offenders in-hand with the Intervention Programme.
Programme by 30% and reduce repeat This project has seen a reduction in offending
offending amongst identified drug misusing by their client group of around 80%
offenders by 25%
Improve access to services for 70% of The introduction of the Drugs Intervention
targeted prolific offenders by the end of Programme has the overall aim of reducing
March 2005 substance related offending and aims to
tackle the issues that contribute to this.
This is measured by a range of National Key
Performance Measures
Reduce domestic burglary by 25% Based on performance in 2004/05, domestic
burglary has reduced by 34%
Reduce the opportunities for distraction Currently, over 3000 households have
burglary by improving security in 900 benefitted from additional security designed
vulnerable households to prevent distraction burglary and around
2000 houses have benefitted from Alleygates
Reduce overall crime levels in each town For the most common offences occurring in
centre by 20% town centres (violent crime, theft from
vehicles, woundings, burglary other than in a
household and robberies), we can see a
reduction in crimes by 11.75%
Reduce incidents of youth nuisance by 10% By reducing juvenile nuisance by 10% annum,
per annum we would hope to be seeing around 7200
reports by the end of March 2005. Projections
based on 2004/05 data however, show an
expected total of around 9,500 offences. This
equates to a 3% reduction overall
7 8 PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
The Partnership accepts that fear of crime can seriously affect an
individual’s quality of life. We know this because you told us through
numerous consultation events
Main findings are:
❖ We know that the majority of respondents feel safe in the daytime
however, this falls after dark particularly for females and those
aged under 30
❖ Although significantly smaller numbers of people actually
experience vehicle crime, 85% of people are worried about it
❖ The majority of respondents worry about being attacked by
someone or mugged in the street (76% and 83% respectively)
however, the risk of this occurring, again, is very low
❖ A large proportion of those involved in the consultation are
worried about gangs of people on the street (54%)
❖ Similarly, communities are concerned about people buying and
taking drugs in the street (49%)
❖ Dog fouling is the most commonly experienced form of anti-social
behaviour (87%)
❖ 84% of respondents say that they are concerned about crime and
anti-social behaviour affecting their health and well-being
❖ Nearly two in three respondents felt confident that their views can
have a major influence Partnership priorities
❖ Improving Street Lighting, Alleygating and CCTV are perceived to
be the most effective measures of making people feel safer
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