Z Community Policing in the UK
- United Kingdom
- Start Date: 1st January 2014
Community Policing is at the very heart of daily duties to protect and serve the 300,000 people who live in, work within and visit the City of London. Police officers and PCSOs work with City communities across three specific teams – Residential, Business and Street Intervention.
This structured approach helps focus our work within both the residential and business sectors of the City, while maintaining an active presence on the streets and helping to prevent crime.
Positioning teams in this way makes for smarter, more efficient working with communities.
The teams have an integrated approach and share their knowledge and skills to help each other - to help the citizens. This style of policing is designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges in an ever-evolving vibrant City culture.
The City of London Police works with local communities and businesses to identify sensitive cultural and politically relevant tensions and grievances.
They support the wider engagement activities already taking place in educational establishments, places of worship, work and community groups in the City of London. Through this work the team aims to strengthen communities in order that they may challenge the ideologies and messages of hate which lead to terrorism.
The City of London experiences low levels of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. This reflects the efforts of the City of London Police, the City of London Corporation and many other partners. Working together they contribute to maintaining the City as the world’s leading financial and business centre as well as being an attractive place to live, socialise and visit. Since its establishment, the Safer City Partnership (SCP) has played a key role in reducing crime and other harms.
The Safer City Partnership has worked together to identify the priorities for the City of London. In order for this model to be transferable other cities should study their emerging concerns, national/regional priorities and documents that provide their area’s Strategic Assessment. Given the ever-evolving nature of the different communities and changes in crime and other threats each city/country need to be flexible and agile in their responses.
The Safer City Partnership follows the City of London Police’s Strategic Assessment and each year does an annual review to refresh our strategy for the year ahead.
The Safer City Partnership involves representation from the following partners:
• The City of London Corporation*
• The City of London Police*
• London Fire Brigade*
• London Probation Trust*
• City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group*
• HM Court Service
• British Transport Police
• Transport for London
• City of London Crime Prevention Association
• Residents' representatives
• Business representatives
• Voluntary sector representative
Those partners marked with an asterisk are the statutory partners under the Crime and Disorder Act (1998) and subsequent legislation. Collectively they are responsible for delivering the ambitions set out in this Plan.
City of London police. January 29, 2014. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/community-policing/Pages/About-community-policing.aspx.
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The Safer City Partnership vision’s is for the City of London to remain a safe place to work, live, visit and socialise.
They will achieve this by making the best possible use of the resources that they, as a partnership, can bring together to meet the needs of the City in relation to crime reduction and anti-social behaviour.
The City of London experiences low levels of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour, which reflects the efforts of the City of London Police, the City of London Corporation and many other partners. Working together we contribute to maintaining the City as the world’s leading financial and business centre as well as being an attractive place to live, socialise and visit. Since its establishment, the Safer City Partnership (SCP) has played a key role in reducing crime and other harms.
Community Policing is at the very heart of the daily duties to protect and serve the 300,000 people who live in, work within and visit the City of London. Police officers and PCSOs work with City communities across three specific teams – Residential, Business and Street Intervention
This structured approach helps focus the work within both the residential and business sectors of the City, while maintaining an active presence on the streets and helping to prevent crime.
Positioning the teams in this way makes for smarter, more efficient working with communities.
The teams have an integrated approach and share their knowledge and skills to help each other.
The residential team attends various resident led meetings such as youth groups and women’s groups to provide an informal policing input and to work with the groups on issues that they are facing and to provide support wherever possible.
The business engagement team attends many businesses internal strategy meetings such as security forums and management briefings to better understand the needs of the city’s business community. A member of the team will attend these meetings where invited to provide a crime update, inform staff about current operations running or to address concerns or issues raised.
The Street Intervention team has responsibility for tackling and reducing street crime and anti-social behaviour. The team also assists with issues associated with licensed premises.
Officers and PCSOs also help raise awareness about crime prevention and regularly visit schools and work with police cadets.
The City of London experiences low levels of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. This reflects the efforts of the City of London Police, the City of London Corporation and the many other partners.
Sustainability is enhanced through trainings and seminars that allow to transfer and knowledge to diverse actors who are or might be involved with individuals with anti-social behaviour.
The work of the Safer City Partnership is supported by a team of officers from the City of London Corporation and City of London Police.
This unit is located within the Security and Contingency Planning Group of the City of London.
This group can be contacted in a number of ways:
By email, postal mail, phone as there is a Police Anti-Terrorist Hotline, a National Domestic Violence Helpline and a Crimestoppers line.
This unit is located within the Security and Contingency Planning Group of the City of London. This practice involves as actors all residents, workers, businesses and visitors of the city of London in order to protect them from theft and fraud with an emphasis on cyber-crime. For the year 2016-2017 they are focusing also on challenging radicalisation of vulnerable people and reduce the threat posed to the City.