Specialist Crime Directorate management information

Report: 4
Date: 10 April 2008
By: AC Specialist Crime on behalf of the Commissioner

Summary

This report gives a summary of Specialist Crime Directorate’s performance against their key objectives from 1 April 2007 to 29 February 2008

A. Recommendation

That members note the contents of the report.

B. Supporting information

1. This report provides management information on Specialist Crime Directorate’s (SCD) performance against its objectives for the period 1 April 2007 to 29 February 2008 inclusive. The data have been reconciled with Performance Information Bureau and where applicable should match the information contained in the corporate submission.

2. The report reflects on performance against the Directorate’s key objectives and core performance indicators. It comments on the performance data provided and against the agreed targets. It also provides a summary of some of our operational successes and developmental initiatives.

Child abuse

3. A summary of the key points for members is shown in table 1 (see Appendix 1)

4. Of the 7,535 offences investigated involving intra-familial abuse by the Child Abuse Investigation Command (CAIC), 1,868 were detected. This provides a sanction detection rate of 24.8%, which is 2.4 percentage points increase on last year (6,631 offences /1,485 detections). Two years ago, the detection rate was around 14%. The number of offences being reported has increased by 904, a rise of 13.6%. The increase could be attributed to a greater confidence and willingness in the public to report these crimes.

5. The borough with the highest number of intra-familial offences is Southwark with 434 (Haringey last year with 417). The borough with the lowest number of offences is Richmond-upon-Thames with 47 (last year Kensington and Chelsea with 58)

6. Hackney has the highest sanction detection rate with 37.5% (256 offences/96 detections); Greenwich has the lowest with 12.7% (291 offences/37 detections). The latest published figures (9 March 2008) reveals that Greenwich has now reached a sanction detection level of 20%. The allegations that form the majority of their offences for this year have been historic in nature. The suspect is invariably known and the resultant uncorroborated victim verses suspect issue is one that rarely passes the crown prosecution service evidential test. Meetings have been arranged to improve the early investigative and final charge advice.

7. There has been a significant reduction in the number of child rape offences. There were 272 offences and of these 124 or 45.6% have been detected. This compares with last year’s figure of 354 offences, a decrease of 82 or 23.2%; there were also 140 detections providing a 39.5% sanction detection rate.

8. The borough with the highest number of offences is Newham 24 (last year Southwark with 28). The borough with the lowest number of offences is Camden with 1 (last year Richmond-upon-Thames 0). Nine boroughs have had ten or more recorded offences (compared with 16 last year).

9. Three boroughs have a 100% or more sanction detection rate. Merton, Richmond and Kingston have yet to record any detections FYTD. Their position could very quickly change as all have relatively low numbers of offences.

10. The reason for the reduction in the number of child rape offences is connected to the Sex Offences Act 2003. This act extended the definition of rape to include oral penetration, previously recorded as indecent assault. Between May 2004 and April 2007 new allegations of oral penetration offences were counted as rape even if they had occurred before the 2003 Act. Since 1 April 2007, this changed in line with Home Office requirements to record historic offences once again as sexual/indecent assault. This may in part account for the reduction in offences. The command, crown prosecution service (through one to one surgeries) and MPS support services such as forensics continue to secure as much corroborating evidence as possible to charge offenders. Additionally, rape investigations are subject to robust reviews by team leaders. It is likely that these factors have led to the sanction detection rate.

Criminal Networks

11. There were 266 confirmed disruptions of criminal networks until the end of February (293 financial year-to-date, 15 March). We have exceeded the end of year target. It is very likely that the end of year figure should result in over 300 approved claims. Next year’s target has been agreed at 325.

12. The value of assets identified by court order for seizure currently stands at £29.1m. To achieve the end of year target a further £5.9m of assets need to be seized in the final month.

13. The number of cases where assets were restrained or seized is 1,493. This is a current weekly average of 31. Originally, to achieve the target around 19 cases were needed. We will have exceeded the target by over 50% by the end of the year. This measure indicates the level of activity/compliance in applying the Proceeds of Crime Act legislation throughout the organisation.

14. Disruptions were recorded against networks involved in offences such as money laundering, class A drug supply, forged documentation, people trafficking and armed robberies. The following is a breakdown by primary offence type of disrupted criminal networks were involved in:

Table 2: Breakdown of disrupted criminal networks by primary offence type

15. The use of the Proceed of Crime Act (POCA) legislation as a disruption tactic to criminal networks has continued to be an effective tool. With the continued rollout of training for financial investigators, the knowledge and experience in the use of POCA has increased across the organisation. The legislation is used at two points in an investigation. Firstly, a financial investigator would be assigned to the investigation from the very onset. A financial picture of the network can then be formed and suitable opportunities to seize assets identified. Secondly, investigators will look to seize assets obtained by the network. They will target those individuals who are associated or later identified as being members and have specific skills in relation to the laundering of monies obtained through criminal activity.

Examples of the use of POCA legislation against criminal networks

16. The following are examples of disrupted organised criminal networks where POCA has been used and assets seized. Around 40% of approved claims this financial year have made use of the legislation.

17. The Stolen Vehicle Unit undertook a covert operation targeting a company that manufactured fake vehicle identification number plates and stickers. These are used by to disguise the identity of stolen vehicles. Officers gathered evidence about the company and its associates, which led to various addresses being searched where evidence of the entire criminal enterprise was recovered and £43k cash was seized. The two key members were arrested in possession of two stolen vehicles both valued at £50k each and under the legislation their own vehicle valued at £40k was also seized.

18. Officers from the Serious and Organised OCU were alerted to a kidnapping and took steps to secure the assistance of a family member to negotiate the victim’s release. Through the deployment of surveillance and intelligence assets, staff managed to identify eleven people connected to this kidnapping and ransom payment. Once the hostage was rescued, they were arrested. During this investigation, £102k cash was seized.

19. Central Operations Clubs and Vice Unit officers targeted two addresses, which were being used as brothels. Surveillance was conducted on the addresses. This led to arrests being made. Financial investigations into the assets of the arrested persons led to £370k worth of their assets being seized.

Gun Enabled Crime

20. There has been a decrease of 14 or 0.5% in gun-enabled crime offences recorded in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). (see Appendix 1) There were 3,088 offences compared with 3,102 for the same period last financial year. SCD had responsibility for the investigation of 801 or almost 26% of offences committed in this crime category. Southwark is the borough with most gun enabled crime offences in this reporting period with 252 recorded (Southwark also last year with 247 offences). Richmond-upon-Thames borough had the least reported with 15 offences (also Richmond-upon-Thames last year with 17 offences). Eleven boroughs account for 55% of reported gun enabled crime offences. Eighteen boroughs have seen a decrease in the number of offences when compared with last year.

21. The performance year to date has significantly improved since the start of the financial year. At one stage, the MPS was recording a 23% increase. The improvement reflects concerted effort both centrally, and particularly in priority boroughs, to reduce the increase on last year’s figures.

22. Currently the weekly average is just over 64. If this rate continues the end of year forecast is likely to be around 3,345 offences. A projected decrease of 30 offences or –0.9% on last year’s final figure of 3,375 offences. To achieve the 5% reduction target the remaining weekly average should not exceed 30 offences. This is very unlikely to occur.

23. The overall MPS gun enabled crime sanction detection rate is 19.3%. The target is 25%. There have been 597 FYTD detections. The detection rate is down by 1.1 percentage points when compared with the last financial year (20.4%). SCD has detected 206 or 25.7% of the offences they investigated.

24. The  graph ( see Appendix 1) illustrates that compared with the past three years there has been a decrease in gun enabled crime offences.

25. As mentioned at the end of July 2007 we were showing a 23.3% increase in gun enabled crime offences. Now approaching the end of the financial year the performance has greatly improved. This is substantially due to the efforts of the designated priority boroughs for gun crime, three of which are showing decreases in double figures (Haringey –12%; Newham –15%; and Tower Hamlets –28%). Of the remaining eight boroughs Brent, Ealing, Lambeth and Lewisham are also showing decreases. The most recent addition is Greenwich, which had a surge in GEC offences in late 2007 peaking at a 62% increase in early November. Greenwich is fully engaged with the strategy and this increase has subsequently fallen back to 45%.

26. The success can be attributed to improved co-ordination, focused activity and the corporate centre responding to the needs of boroughs to resolve any issues/barriers.

27. In addition, there has been a joined-up approach from the organisation with all business groups making a significant contribution.

• Territorial Policing, all priority boroughs produced an action plan with support from the gangs and guns delivery unit. These were compared to existing strategies and combined into a MPS delivery plan.
• Specialist Crime OCUs are working with boroughs to identify offenders carrying out robberies across boundaries and emerging threats, supporting operations Curb and Alliance, liaising with industry to develop specific initiatives in order to meet the challenges, prevention activity with clubs and interventions with young people and working with boroughs to prevent reprisals.
•  Central Operations continue to provide additional specialist layers to the response through intelligence led deployment of their uniformed resources in support of borough plans, for example dog section, traffic and air support. They also offer armed support through deployment of armed response vehicles and mobile armed operations (Neons and Argons etc) as well as mobile armed support teams working with covert surveillance.

28. At the same time there has been an improvement in data sharing, handling and reporting. Evidence of this includes: Met Intelligence Bureau (MIB) gun crime desk seized firearms database (National Ballistics Intelligence System (NaBIS from April 2008); provision of detailed weekly and monthly reports highlighting emerging trends and patterns to inform enforcement initiatives such as Argon; the Guns and Gangs Delivery Unit (GGDU) continues to improve co-ordination across business groups to improve data standards, compliance and assists in the interpretation of data to inform tactics. Using this improved data MIB produce regular tactical assessments for corporate tasking scrutiny to ensure that resources are deployed through co-ordinating and tasking offices on an intelligence-led basis.

29. Recently there was a focus on high-risk individuals. This operation ran for two weeks in eleven boroughs (10 of which were priority boroughs for gun crime), concentrating on youth and weapon crime. This was managed through the GGDU with assistance from the Violent Crime Directorate. It included gun crime nominals. Although concluded, the nominals continue to be subjected to police attention. A similar operation is likely to be repeated at the end of March. This will be supplemented by co-ordination on armourers/convertors/supply for all ‘firearm items’ alongside implementation of National Ballistics Intelligence System, financial investigation / confiscation to target gun/gang criminality, working with source units to maximise intelligence opportunities and development of Pathways/Mediation/Sanctuary options for diversion.

Commercial Robbery with Firearms

30. There were 505 commercial robbery offences with firearms investigated by Serious and Organised Crime OCU. Of these 154 were detected, providing a sanction detection rate of 30.5%. This compares with a detection rate of 36.2% (531 offences/192 detections) for same period last year. Offences have decreased by 26 or -4.9% and similarly detections decreased by 38 or -19.8%. The borough with the highest number of offences is Lambeth with 40 (last year also Lambeth with 52). Eleven boroughs account for 54% of offences. Also, 11 boroughs have had less than 10 offences recorded this year, the same number as last year.

31. Three boroughs have a sanction detection rate of 100% or more. Three boroughs have a sanction detection rate less than double figures.

Trident gun enabled crime

32. There were 216 Trident non-fatal and fatal shooting offences during this reporting period. This is a decrease of 3 or -1.4% on last year. Trident’s overall sanction detection rate is currently 17.6%, 38 offences having been detected. This is down from last year’s figure of 19.2%. Fatal shootings have decreased by two, from 18 to 16 on the previous year. The borough with the highest number of reported offences is Lambeth with 32 (last year Southwark 39). Five boroughs have not had a Trident related shooting this financial year, compared with nine last year. Fourteen other boroughs have had five or fewer reported offences.

33. The borough with the largest decrease in offences when compared to last year is Southwark with 23 (from 39 reduced to 16), a reduction of 59%. The borough with the largest increase is Waltham Forest from 15 to 25, an increase of 10 offences or 66%.

Trafalgar gun enabled crime

34. There were 80 Trafalgar related shooting offences. Of these 14 have been detected, providing a detection rate of 17.5%. This compares with a detection rate of 20.6% (68 offences/14 detections) for same period last year. Offences have increased by 12 or 17.6% and detections are unchanged. The borough with the highest number of offences is Haringey with eight (last year Lambeth/Hackney with seven each). There are currently eleven boroughs that have not had a Trafalgar related shooting this financial year, compared with seven for last year.

35. The borough with the highest detection rate is Southwark with 60% (five offences/three detections)

36. The current sanction detection rate is not reaching the target of 25%. To achieve this the difference is another six detections. When dealing with low volume serious crime the rate is subject to fluctuations and the position can change rapidly over a reporting period.

37. When taking all the crimes, including non-gun enabled crime offences that the OCU investigates into consideration the detection rate is closer to 45%.

38. For Trident and Trafalgar offences this financial year compared with last year’s reporting period are detailed by borough, please refer to Appendix 1.

Gun enabled crime counting rules and definitions

39. The present Home Office counting rules for gun enabled crime include tear gas canisters (CS, Mace and Pepper) and electronic stun guns. Between 1 April 2007 and 22 February 2008 when comparing the last four financial years there has been a increase in the proportion of offences involving these weapons, specifically tear gas canisters. This year combined they account for 11.8% of recorded crimes as opposed to the previous three years it was 8.5%, 8.1% and 7.7% respectively. That is about 89 more offences. Two crime types account for the majority of the increase; those involving actual bodily harm and personal robberies. They also are responsible for 80% of all tear gas canister offences.

40. There are more offences involving stun guns than last year but fewer than the two financial years prior to that.

41. If tear gas and stun guns were excluded from the current definition we would be showing a decrease of 4.5% when compared to last year.

42. Colleagues from the Performance Directorate are involved in discussions with the Home Office. The definition of gun crime has been reviewed and is more than likely to be changed as part of determining measures suitable for Assessment of Policing and Community Safety framework.

Homicide

43. The overall homicide detection rate for reporting period is 87.7%, this compares with the detection rate of 80.6% for last year.  (see Appendix 2)  An improvement of 7.1 percentage points and above target. There were 146 homicide offences with 132 detections. Of these there were 15 pre-financial year detections providing an in-year detection rate of 80%. All the detections financial year-to-date are the sanction type.

44. There were 14 fewer homicides when compared with same reporting period last financial year. The borough with the highest number of homicide offences is Lambeth with 21 or 14% of offences (last year also Lambeth with 15). Four boroughs account for 33% of homicides. Three boroughs are yet to record a homicide offence this reporting period (one borough last year). Only two boroughs have recorded 10 or more offences, compared with four last year. Eighteen boroughs have a 100% or more detection rate, this compares with ten for last year.

45. Trident Major Investigation Teams have had 16 homicide offences to investigate; 11 of these have been detected. This provides a detection rate of 68.8%. There were four pre-financial year detections giving an in-year detection rate of 43.7%. There are two fewer offences and four more detections when compared with last year. Only eight boroughs have recorded a Trident related homicide, one fewer than last year. The borough with the highest number is Lambeth with six or 37.5% of offences (last year Hackney with 4).

46. Child Abuse Investigation Command’s Major Investigations Teams have investigated ten homicide offences. All have been detected providing a 100% detection rate; one of these was detected pre-financial year giving an in-year detection rate of 90%. There were the same number of offences and two more detections when compared with last year’s reporting period. Homicides occurred on eight boroughs in both reporting periods.

Widening remit

47. The Homicide and Serious Crime Command has been steadily widening its remit beyond investigating offences. The command has responsibilities which include; all murder and manslaughter offences; suspicious unexplained deaths; attempted murder, where the evidence of intent is unambiguous; high risk missing persons where there is reason to suspect a life has been taken or is under threat; linked series of stranger rapes; other critical incidents. The non-homicide offences and historic re-investigations have become an increasing volume of the work undertaken by us. Since April 2007, the command has taken on 48 investigations into these offences. This represents an increase of 10 or 26%.

Operation Cube

48. This is the reinvestigation of some cases where the Laboratory of Government Chemist discovered that extracts of DNA could have yielded a false negative (not false positive) result over a certain time period. It is believed there could be around 700 cases within the MPS. It is difficult to gauge the scale of work this may generate but it could be significant.

Support to boroughs

49. As well as taking on additional enquiries, we continue to provide tactical support to our colleagues on borough. So far this financial year we have provided documented advice in 751 cases that failed to meet the threshold for us to takeover responsibility for the investigation. This provision of advice equates to 8,276 hours of support. To increase the trend towards supporting boroughs we decided to provide documented advice to any borough detective inspector who is investigating a stranger rape. This is likely to result in more advice requests in the forthcoming financial year.

Other Operational successes

50. A selection of significant operational successes is highlighted below. They all have tended to involve working in collaboration with other MPS Units or external agencies.

51. Twenty-two people were arrested in raids at over 30 addresses throughout London in February. Nineteen of those arrested appeared at court on drug and money laundering charges. An estimated 100kgs of suspected cocaine and cash was seized and several firearms discovered. The operation, led by the Special Intelligence Section (SIS) targeted a criminal network believed to be one of the biggest drug traffickers currently operating in the UK. Officers from the Territorial Support Group and SIS simultaneously targeted key addresses. At one address, officers used a JCB digger to gain access to the residential property. Further addresses, including various business premises, were subsequently searched throughout the morning. This was the largest simultaneous entry done by the Territorial Support Group in London, using 520 officers to enter the addresses. Taking seven weeks to plan, each address was individually risk assessed to work out the best method of entry. This also included officers from Westminster, Brent, Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Territorial Crime Squad and assistance from South Wales Police, City of London Police and Essex Police.

52. The Money Laundering Investigation Team (MLIT) successfully disrupted and convicted a criminal network that had infiltrated a building society. This was an intelligence led operation, working in partnership with different financial institutions resulting in six people being convicted of money laundering offences and conspiracy to defraud. This investigation identified that a network had ‘recruited’ three bank employees. Their sole purpose was to provide sensitive financial information to members of the network, enabling the ‘couriers’ to obtain cash from these compromised accounts and then using the proceeds for their own benefit. Acting on intelligence received from different financial institutions, the MLIT seized over £750k from these ‘couriers’. The subjects were arrested over the course of a few days and subsequently charged with offences of money laundering and conspiracy to defraud. Appearing at court, three corrupt officials received custodial sentences of 18 months. The cash ‘couriers’ received custodial sentences ranging from 6 months to three years imprisonment. The cash seized by police was restored, resulting in no losses being incurred by the victims of this crime. Using the full powers of the Proceeds of Crime Act, money was seized, confiscation orders were made and a criminal network disrupted. The Judge likened the actions of the ‘cash couriers’ to that of ‘drugs mules’. The bank employees were all of previous good character but the Judge made comment of the fact they held positions of trust and their actions resulted in vast amounts of money being stolen, hence the strong sentencing.

53. Members of a criminal network were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud after targeting thousands of innocent holidaymakers, amassing a criminal fortune of £6m. All are awaiting sentencing. Five ‘travel companies’ were expertly established by the fraudsters with no intention of providing the bulk of the holidays booked. They offered cut-price deals, which legitimate companies could not possibly compete with. The gang set a cut-off date when they planned for each company to crash, enabling them to disappear with the monies. This would leave the travel industry and credit card companies to pick up the bill of lost holidays. Some victims found themselves stranded abroad with no accommodation or flights home. The extent of their activity was highlighted when a terrorist alert grounded all flights out of the UK. Many victims started ringing to check that the flights they had booked were still valid, and those who had booked through the fraudulent companies began to discover that the flights did not exist. The five businesses left thousands of disappointed customers. Association of British Travel Agents, the Travel Association and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suffered large financial losses through compensating holidays lost and bills not paid by the defendants. There were over 800 reports posted on the MPS's Fraud Alert website site that were used as hearsay material for the trial. In addition, police took 56 victim statements and over 300 witness statements.

54. The Human Trafficking Team (HTT) has had its first human trafficking sentencing. A man and women from Bulgaria were found guilty. He received six years for trafficking into the UK, three and a half years for trafficking within the UK and 18 months for controlling prostitution, all to be served concurrently. She received 30 months for trafficking within the UK, and 12 months for controlling prostitution, to be served concurrently. HTT were called to assist Enfield borough officers with a Bulgarian woman who it was thought had been trafficked to the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation. In interview the victim, told police that they told her they were planning on coming to England and would pay for her travel arrangements so that she could come too. They told her she could pay them back when she was working in the UK. After arriving, they went from the airport to the house of another Bulgarian man where they stayed overnight. The next day they went to a hostel, where the victim’s identity was obtained. For the next five days, she was left alone at the hotel. She was required to remain within the hotel whilst "normal" employment was sought in a restaurant or a cleaning post. On the fifth day, prostitution was presented as the only option. She refused but both she and family back home were threatened. Their legs would be broken if she did not work as a prostitute for two years to pay off the £2k she owed for the travel. The next day she was dropped at a brothel. Of the money earned there, she was required to give half her earnings to the madam at the address and the other half to the accused at the end of each shift. The victim was moved to a second brothel in central London after a failed escape attempt whereby she sought help from a taxi driver who occasionally picked her up after work. She was at the second brothel for four days, for the first three she did not have any clients as she refused to take cocaine with them. On the last day, she had three clients and was then offered a job with a client that involved her being dropped off at a client's house. She took this opportunity to escape and with assistance went to a police station. The accused were remanded in custody. Bulgarian police were called in to deal with repeated threats made against the victim's family in Bulgaria to try to pressurise the victim not to give evidence.

Developmental initiatives

55. The following are examples of developmental initiatives and recognition:

56. In support of the Bichard recommendations, the MPS’s Intelligence Bureau (MIB) created a team of staff to carry out information requests received from other forces. This was previously undertaken by borough intelligence units. The new team started in February 2008 and there has been an improvement in the response to such requests. The MIB’s impact nominal index desk acts as a single point of contact for the organisation. Its creation should result in an increased level of intelligence sharing between forces and other law enforcement agencies. In respect of serious crime, all borough intelligence units now have access to nationally held data. All forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are passing their data from their IT systems to each other. These hold; intelligence, crime, custody, domestic violence, child protection, firearms licence refusals and revocations information. This allows boroughs for the first time to be aware of national picture in relation to serious crime relating to the individuals they are investigating. Greater access to all business groups will occur over the next few weeks. There is now sharing between 63 agencies nationally for serious crime and is significant progress against the information sharing requirements of the Management of Police Information guidance.

57. The MPS recently ran a Payback fortnight, organised by the implementation team. It was an opportunity for everyone to concentrate on and publicise their operational activity around the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) and seizure of assets. Reminding and proving to criminals that crime, quite literally, does not pay. The aim of Payback fortnight is, through operational success and publicity, to deter and disrupt acquisitive criminals and criminal networks, particularly domestic burglars and their handlers, those involved in the illegal drug trade and illegal immigration. The intention is to encourage POCA operational activity during Payback fortnight and to report the results both internally and externally.

58. From February, Trident and Trafalgar OCU were known as Trident Shootings Prevention and Investigation. The three teams that investigate non-fatal shootings will be reorganised and the Trafalgar shootings investigation team will cease to exist in its current format. The reorganisation will create three shootings investigation teams based in northwest London, northeast London and south London. Two syndicates from the Serious and Organised Crime OCU emerging threats team will move to Trident, which will now contain five proactive teams. This addition to will allow us to expand by 40 staff to tackle shootings in London. There will be no changes to the arrangements for murder investigation. The changes will enable the OCU to increase proactive operations against those who supply and carry firearms and are intent on causing harm. The proactive and investigation teams will now be geographically based nearer to the investigations. This will enable the teams to build stronger relationships with local boroughs and communities. These relationships will assist with intelligence gathering and will ensure teams can be more effective in their areas. Previously, Trafalgar dealt with non-fatal shootings pan-London and resources were spread over a large area. The new teams will be able to develop local knowledge and intelligence, improving investigations and efficiency. Increasingly, research has indicated that most shooting offences occur at the suspect's home or neighbouring borough.

59. Operation Skylla is the proactive assessment and development of intelligence around persons wanted for serious crime by the Metropolitan Police Service. Loaned officers from Homicide, Child Abuse Investigation and Territorial Policing are supporting the Met Intelligence Bureau. Their objective was to reduce the number of persons wanted for serious crimes of violence and sexual assault across London, particularly subjects assessed as posing a particular danger. Using a variety of covert intelligence gathering techniques the operation has resulted, to date, in (a) the arrest of three males wanted for separate offences of systematic rape of young male victims, (b) two males for offences of rape against women, (c) two females for offences of grievous bodily harm in which their respective victims had acid sprayed in their face and received multiple stab wounds and (d) one male for a series of gunpoint aggravated burglaries in Lambeth borough. A number of other suspects have been traced to addresses overseas and extradition processes are being progressed. It concludes in April.

Abbreviations and Acronyms:

CAIC

Child Abuse Investigation Command

CAIT

Child Abuse Investigation Team

CRIS

Crime Reporting Information System

CPS

Crown Prosecution Service

FYTD

 Financial year-to-date

GEC

Gun enabled crime

INI

Impact Nominal Index

MIB

Met Intelligence Bureau

MPA

Metropolitan Police Authority

MPS

Metropolitan Police Service

NIM

National Intelligence Model

OCU

Operational Command Unit

SCD

Specialist Crime Directorate

TP

Territorial Policing

UK

 United Kingdom

C. Race and equality impact

There are no explicit equalities items addressed. The activities that form this report and the data content are arrived at with a regard to delivering Specialist Crime policing services tailored to the needs of individuals and communities. The contents of this performance report should fully comply with equal opportunities policies and associated MPA/MPS Diversity issues.

D. Financial implications

There are no financial implications as all of the data featured in this report are already produced regularly by the MPS.

E. Background papers

None

F. Contact details

Report author(s): Raymond Marshall, Specialist Crime Directorate, Performance Improvement Unit, MPS

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