To receive a presentation from the Community Safety and Development Manager.
Minutes:
The Sub-Committee had received a presentation from officers on how effective the Reducing Re-offending strategy had been to date.
Officers had advised that:
· The total socio-economic cost of crime in havering in the last 12 months had been £100,171,414;
· There had been 15,845 recorded crimes in that same time period;
· Of those 15,845 crimes just 20.3% had been detected by the police; and
· Out of those 3,141 offences which had been detected only 2,544 individuals had been accused.
The Sub-Committee had concurred with the concept that there must be consequences for breaking the law and supported the reforms pointed out in the ‘Breaking the Cycle’ proposal that had insisted there must be a better deal for victims.
The Sub-Committee had been informed that the following proposals had been implemented:
· Introduction of ‘working prisons’ where prisoners were obliged to work a full working week;
· Greater use of tough curfews and electronic tagging;
· Making Community Payback increasingly intensive and immediate; and
· Sentencers were making compensation orders in cases where there was a direct victim.
The question for the Sub-Committee was what was being done to tackle the problem. Nationally they had been looking to:
· An integrated approach to managing offenders;
· Introducing drug recovery wings in prisons;
· Getting offenders onto the Work Programme; and
· Liaison and Diversion services for mentally ill offenders.
Within Havering 819 adults whom had been accused in 2014 had been assessed by either the National Probation Service or Community Rehabilitation Company. Going forward numbers were expected to increase dramatically. In Havering with effect from April 2015 offenders who had been sentenced to over two days custody would receive a one year probation sentence. Previously only those who had received a custodial sentence of over 12 months had been subject to probation.
From December 2015 MTCnovo who had won the right to provide probation services in London through the London Community Rehabilitation Company had introduced a new Cohort Model which had been devised to deliver tailored services to different offender groups.
These cohorts were:
· 18 to 25 year old males;
· 26 to 49 year old males;
· 50+ year old males;
· Women (All ages from 18+);
· Offenders with a chronic illness, mental illness or intellectual disabilities; and
· Community Payback.
Officers had undertaken an assessment of the Adult Offenders which had revealed:
· 85.1% of offenders were male. However, Havering had the highest proportion of female offenders in London;
· 63.9% of offenders were aged between 26 -49;
· Havering had the second highest proportion of 21-25 year old offenders in London (Havering 18.6%, average 16.3%);
· Violence against the person was the most frequent offence (29.7%) and accounted for half of the 2014 socio-economic costs £55,460,640;
· Almost 1/5th of known offenders who had committed crime in Havering had been from Barking and Dagenham; and
· Havering had the highest percentage of burglars of all London Boroughs testing positive for cocaine, more than one and a half times the regional average (27.3% compared to 15.3%).
The Havering Community Safety partnership had created a Reducing Reoffending Board which was supported by three Panels: Integrated Offender Management, Serious Youth Violence and Drug Intervention Project.
The Integrated Offender management Panel meet on a Monthly basis and includes representatives from the Police, probation Services, Community Safety, Housing Youth offending Service and non-statutory agencies. Offenders in the cohort are risk classified. It was expected that by the end of April the Cohort would number 100.
The Sub-Committee decided to invite the London CRC to attend the next meeting .
Havering borough was currently the third largest importer of gang members identified by the Metropolitan Police Trident Gang Crime Command matrix. In November 2014 the borough had been recognised by the Home Office as an Emerging Gang Youth Violence borough. The Serious Youth Violence Panel was currently regularly monitoring 60 nominals.
In comparison to the rest of London in 2014/15:
· Havering had the 4th highest increase in Serious Youth Violence;
· Havering had the 10th highest volume of Firearms discharged; and
· Havering had the 5th largest increase in knife crimes resulting in injury.
Details of the various projects being run were provided.
The Sub-Committee had noted the presentation.