Reports from committees

Report: 6
Date: 30 June 2011
By: Commissioner

Summary

At each meeting of the Authority members will receive a report from committees that have meet in recent weeks.

This report from the authority’s committees provides members with details of the key items considered at each of the committees and their sub-committees.

This report covers the following meetings:

• Strategic and Operational Policing Committee – 12 May 2011

Strategic and Operational Policing Committee – 12 May 2011

Present: Reshard Auladin (Chairman), Tony Arbour, Chris Boothman, Jennette Arnold, Toby Harris, Jenny Jones, Joanne McCartney, Caroline Pidgeon, and Valerie Brasse.

Headline Performance report

Members received a briefing on Waltham Forest. They were informed that the borough had, over the previous year, focussed on high risk perpetrators and crimes of violence – and this had resulted in fewer instances of violence, assault with injury, youth violence and sexual offences. Reduced sanction-detection has been recorded over offences including motor vehicle theft and residential burglary. The MPS noted that Waltham Forest received the second most support from the Commissioner’s Reserve and that it will continue to be supported as long as problems persist.

Update on the Territorial Policing Development Programme

Members agreed that the report should be noted but that they still had insufficient information about the programme to offer ‘support’. The MPS responded that they continued to work within the context of a mayoral commitment on front counters, and that any changes would therefore require MPA approval. The MPS expressed the view that diversity should be accommodated and that this required a broad debate regarding methods by which the public may access the Service. They assured Members that no decision as to the number of front-counters per borough had been made.

Update on dangerous dogs

The MPS noted that Members had previously asked for clarity around actions taken by the unit to reduce costs and explained that whilst the unit’s budget currently sits within CO it may be more rationally situated within TP given that the decision to hold dogs is taken by borough teams.

Members asked what action was being taken to tackle the breeding of prohibited dogs, to which it was responded that the Unit had reduced the number of dogs under their control to 330 from a peak of 480. The resource that this frees up will allow the Unit to look into more specific problems such as the internet trafficking of prohibited dogs.

101 – Single non-emergency number

The MPS introduced a report that detailed progress made in bringing London in line with the rest of the country with regard the use of ‘101’ as the number for non-emergency contact. Feedback provided on this number has been very positive. They informed Members that all calls to this number will be charged at a flat rate of 15 pence per call (including from mobiles).

Members asked why year one costs were so high given that much of the infrastructure is already in place and the economies of scale involved. The MPS responded that much of the cost is associated to the remapping of London’s boundaries to ensure that the calls go to the right force. The London 101 project also takes in activity outside of telephony, including the interaction of the GLA and MPS on lost property handling, for instance.

Part 2

Update on the handling of series of civil claims

Members asked a number of questions surrounding some of the claims, before agreeing the recommendations.

Application for funding to settle claim

Members clarified a number of concerns before agreeing a sum of money.

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