Brent crime audit summary

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Brent Crime AuditSummary 2004Spotlighton Crimein BrentBrent Crime and DisorderReduction and CommunitySafety PartnershipSpotlight on Crime in Brent Brent Crime Audit Summary 2004The Brent Crime and Disorder Reduction and Community Safety Partnership brings togetherthe local council, police, health, fire and probation services. Its members also include theMetropolitan Police Authority, the local magistrates’ court and a representative of thevoluntary sector. The partnership works to tackle crime and promote community safety forall the community. Steps to a safer Brent Brent Crime Audit 2004• Every three years detailed research The audit is based on informationis carried out to establish crime gathered from the Metropolitan PoliceBarnetlevels and patterns in Brent. The Service, Brent Council, London FireHarrowfindings form the Brent Crime Brigade, British Transport Police andAudit which helps the community the Brent Drug and Alcohol Strategicsafety partnership to Partnership. The audit covers April Brent Camdenestablish priorities to 2001 to March 2004. It comparesbe tackled in the Brent with its seven neighbouring WestminsterEalingnext three years. boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Ealing, Kensington & ChelseaHammersmith & Fulham, Harrow,Hammersmith • Those who live,& FulhamKensington & Chelsea and West-work and visit Brentminster (all marked in grey), as wellare then asked toas with London as a whole. Brent and neighbouring boroughsgive their ...

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Brent Crime Audit Summary 2004

Spotlight on Crime in Brent

Brent Crime and Disorder Reduction and Community Safety Partnership

Spotlight on Crime in Brent

Brent Crime Audit Summary 2004

The Brent Crime and Disorder Reduction and Community Safety Partnership brings together the local council, police, health, fire and probation services. Its members also include the Metropolitan Police Authority, the local magistratesÕ court and a representative of the voluntary sector. The partnership works to tackle crime and promote community safety for all the community.

priorities in a questionnaire which is distributed to all households via The Brent Magazine and through public meetings. The 2004 questionnaire appears in the Sept/Oct 2004 issue of the magazine and can also be completed on line at: www.brentbrain.org/safetypartnership

The Findings BrentÕs overall crime rate is towards the lower end when Brent is compared with its neighbouring boroughs and London as a whole (indicated as the MPS Total). ¥ The crime rate in Brent in 2003/04 was 8% lower than London as a whole.

Harrow

Ealing

Brent

Barnet

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Westminster Kensington & Chelsea Hammersmith & Fulham

Brent and neighbouring boroughs

¥ Brent saw the highest increase among neighbouring boroughs in 2003/04 as overall crime rose 6.9%.

¥ The Judicial Disposal Rate in Brent (at 9.2% in 2003/04) is the lowest out of all London boroughs (the Judicial Disposal Rate* for the Metropolitan Police Service as a whole is 12.7%).

Total Notifiable Offences Per 1,000 Population 2003/2004 400 300 200 100 Camden Westminster Barnet 0 Ealing MPS LBH&F RBK&C Brent Harrow total ¥ The community safety partnership use the audit findings and the feedback from public consultation and the questionnaire to develop Brent's next three-year strategy to tackle crime, anti social behaviour and the misuse of drugs. The *A Judicial Disposal is Ôwhere a person has been charged, summonsed, cautioned or had 2005-8 strategy will be published a previously reported offence taken into considerationÕ. in spring 2005.

Key Priorities

It is recommended that the partnership focus on the following four areas of concern and set them as key priorities in the next community safety plan (2005-08).

Priority One Antisocial behaviour

¥ Anti-social behaviour related 999 calls in 2003/04 accounted for approximately 13% of all incidents requiring a police response.

¥ 2287 anti-social behaviour incidents were reported to the councilÕs environment service, of which 1,753 were noise nuisance.

¥ 1,195 incidents of anti-social behaviour were handled by Brent Council wardens between December 2002 and March 2003 alone; rubbish (290) and abandoned vehicles (274) were the most common complaints.

¥ 888 incidences of anti-social behaviour were reported by British Transport Police during 2002-3, including ticket touting, robbery, and criminal damage.

Priority Two Property Crime

¥ Burglary accounted for 11% of all crimes recorded in Brent in 2003/04 (the highest of the eight neighbouring boroughs).

¥ The burglary rate in Brent is 16% higher than the London average, and the third highest out of the eight neighbouring boroughs.

Rubbish and abandoned vehicles were the most common complaints to Brent Council wardens.

¥ The fire brigade responded to 1,589 cases of anti-social behaviour during 2002-3. This included 721 calls to tackle burning rubbish and abandoned cars, 378 to tackle property fires and 490 malicious calls.

¥ Brent has the fifth lowest Judicial Disposal Rate in London for burglary, although it has increased from 5.3% in 2002/03 to 8.8% in 2003/04.

¥ The cost of burglary is at least £9.8 million a year in Brent.

¥ Theft and handling is the most common crime in Brent forming 34.2% of all crime; but this is less than in neighbouring boroughs.

¥ Motor vehicle thefts rose by 8% and thefts from motor vehicles rose by 12% in 2003/04.

The fire brigade responded to 1,589 cases of anti-social behaviour during 2002-3.

Left: Police Community Support Officers Ð a key part of BrentÕs safer neighbourhoods policing.

Above: Alleygating Ð keeping burglars at bay.

Far left and above right: Not Another Drop Ð residents campaign to stop gun crime in Brent.

Violent crime in Brent cost at least £30 million last year.

Robberies cost victims and the economy around £8.5 million each year.

Gun crime has high impact in Brent, with five people murdered between March and September 2003.

Priority Four Drugs and Alcohol

¥ Police drugs offences data includes drug trafficking (supply), possession of drugs and other drugs offences. ¥ Drugs offences comprised 2.9% of all crimes recorded in Brent in 2003/04 Ð this was the sixth highest of the eight neighbouring boroughs. ¥ There was a 4.7% decrease in drug offences in Brent in 2003/04. ¥ Recorded crime does not accurately reflect the overall impact of drugs. Many crimes are drug-related (for example to raise money to buy drugs) and the health implications of problem drug use are serious. ¥ In 2002-03 916 of the 8605 people arrested in Brent were referred to the Arrest Referral Scheme because a drug misuse problem was identified.

Priority Three Violent crime

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Tackling alcohol related disorder and crime is a national priority.

¥ The number of drug users in treatment in 2003/04 was 730. This represents a 12% increase on the previous year. ¥ In 2003-04 85 young people engaged in treatment to address their substance misuse.

¥ The Judicial Disposal Rate in Brent for these offences has fallen from 16.1% to 12.9%.

¥ The cost of violent crime in Brent in 2003/04 was at least £30 million.

¥ These crimes often involve vulnerable victims, especially in cases of domestic violence.

¥ Although violent gun crimes make up only 0.44% of all crime in Brent, this is higher than neighbouring boroughs and London as a whole.

¥ Robberies comprise 5% of crime in Brent Ð a greater proportion than in any of the other neighbouring boroughs and London as a whole.

¥ In 2003/04, the robbery rate in Brent was 21% higher than the London average and the third highest of the eight neighbouring boroughs.

¥ The robbery rate saw a slight incr- ease of 0.67% in 2003/04 follow- ing a 24% reduction in 2002/03.

¥ Robberies in Brent cost victims and the economy around £8.5m per year.

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YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN CRIME

PRIORITY 1 ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR ENVIRO-CRIME HATE CRIME ARSON AND FIRE RELATED ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR NUISANCE BEHAVIOUR

Proposals for the Brent Crime and Community Safety Strategy 2005-2008

Three year plan

PROTECTING VICTIMS

DEALING WITH OFFENDERS

will be covered by all of the four priorities below

Further information

PRIORITY 2 PROPERTY CRIME BURGLARY MOTOR VEHICLE CRIME FURTHER ANALYSIS OF THEFT

PRIORITY 3 VIOLENT CRIME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GUN CRIME ROBBERY ALCOHOL RELATED CRIME

FEAR OF CRIME

PRIORITY 4 DRUG AND ALCOHOL RELATED CRIME TREATMENT COMMUNTIES SUPPLY

Copies of the audit questionnaire are available in libraries, One Stop Shops, police stations and online atwww.brentbrain.org/safetypartnership or by calling the Brent Council Community Safety Team on020 8937 1058.

Information in other languages

If you would like a copy of the Brent Crime Audit Summary 2004 in another language, in large print or on audio tape please tick the appropriate box, fill in your name address below and return the form to the Freepost address below.

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