December 2003 performance report

Report: 8
Date: 12 February 2004
By: Commissioner

Summary

This report gives a summary of MPS performance, as outlined in the monthly Performance Report (Appendix 1) against policing plan objectives for 2003-4. It also informs the MPA of discussion in the MPS Performance Review Committee.

A. Recommendations

That the report be noted.

B. Supporting information

Performance against policing plan targets

Burglary

1. Burglaries are 8% down year to date (YTD) on last year – equivalent to 6,679 fewer burglaries - compared with the target of 4 %.

Autocrime

2. Autocrime remains within sight of this level with a year to date reduction of 6.3%, just short of the 7% target.

Street crime

3. MPS street crime level is more than 2% lower than YTD last year. It is unlikely we will achieve the 10 % target reduction.

Homicide

4. Detection rate has increased to 98% on 165 homicides YTD compared with a target detection rate of 83%.

Offences Brought To Justice

5. Numbers of offences brought to justice for the 12 months to May 2003 are 131.5k – 6 % higher than last year and above the target 5%.

6. Historically there has been a lack of up-to-date information making it difficult to access whether progress is on track. There are two sources of delay:

• Magistrate courts’ delay in sending paper based results to the MPS. These delays range from only 1 month at the best to 5 months for the worst performing Magistrate Court.
• Backlog of data input onto MPS “Durham” computer the backlog is currently 6 months, but the aim is to reduce this to 4 months by April 04.

The first delay is outside the control of the MPS.

Sickness levels

7. Police officer sickness levels at 8.8 days per officer are on target (9 days per year).

8. Police staff levels stand at 11 days compared with the 10 day target.

9. Traffic wardens levels continue to be managed downwards and stand at 14 days vs 18 days target.

10. PCSOs levels however are increasing. Levels stand at 11 days vs the 10 day target.

Recruitment

11. Police officers In December 2003, the MPS exceeded it target for police officer recruitment for the financial year and in January 2004 reached the recruitment landmark of 30,000 police officers.

Diversity

12. The proportion of:

• police officer recruits from VEM backgrounds is just under 14%, close to the 15% target.
• PCSO recruits from VEM backgrounds is well over the 25% target at 39%.

13. Appendix A is the MPS monthly performance report for December 2003, although there are some areas that are yet to be updated because the data is unavailable These are predominantly survey based data, which is updated on a quarterly basis – the next update is anticipated to be available by mid February 2004.

C. Equality and diversity implications

Implications of performance against individual targets are considered in in-depth performance reports throughout the year. This report notes exceptions in strategic disproportionality indicators (such as stop-search) where applicable.

D. Financial implications

None.

E. Background papers

None.

F. Contact details

Report author: Vinay Bhardwaj, Corporate Performance Analysis Unit, MPS.

For more information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

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