Session Two: Preventative strategies

Case study: Hounslow Homes Warden Training - Narinder Padwal, Housing Race Crime Coordinator, Hounslow Homes

Role of Neighbourhood Wardens

Prevention

• Diverse, trained and supported teams with out of hours operations

• Multi-agency working/joint operations• Community engagement• Publicity • Environmental improvements

Early intervention

• Presence• Joined up working• Tension monitoring• Engaging with youths, parents, etc• Graffiti/communal repairs

Hounslow Homes Neighbourhood Wardens

• Government initiative• One of first schemes funded• Multi-agency partnership

How we started off!

• Went live 2001• 13 uniformed neighbourhood wardens• All estates plus two TVHA and one RHP estate • 3.00pm to 11.00pm seven days a week

What we aim to do!

• Improve and make safe the local neighbourhood and community

• Reduce fear of crime• Reduce anti-social behaviour• Be a helpful on-site out-of-hours presence

What else the wardens do!

• Assist with community events such as fun days, youth events, day trips, parties, etc.

• Estate monitoring• Recommending environmental improvements• Helping with emergencies

Facts and figures

• Neighbourhood wardens record approximately 500 incidents every three months

• Over the last five years over 10,000 incidents have been dealt with

• We assist with 15 to 30 community events each year

Who do we work with?

• Hounslow Homes – we provide information which assists other teams to support or take action in ASB cases

• Police – we provide information to the police which allows them to action incidents of crime and reduce crime

• Hounslow council – we provide information to teams, which allow them to improve the area

• Local organisations – we work with these groups to promote the well being of the neighbourhood and the diverse communities

Wardens offer victim support

• High priority• Victim centred• Victim safety • Multi-agency working• Evidence gathering• Victim consent

Wardens and perpetrator action

• Interview alleged perpetrator• Warning letters• NOSP• Possession proceedings• Eviction• Injunction• Monitoring • Multi-agency working

Community events