Welcome to the

Babergh

Public Meeting

“Let us go forward together.”

(Sir Winston Churchill)

Police and Crime Plan 2013-17

AIM: ‘Making Suffolk a safer place to live,

work, travel and invest’

Objectives:

• Responding to emergencies

• Solving crime

• Preventing and reducing crime and anti-

social behaviour

• Caring for victims and vulnerable people

Consulting with you

• Received over 1,000 e-mails and letters

• Contact me on spcc@suffolk.pnn.police.uk

• Monthly public surgeries

• Sought public views on: – Business crime (results published at Business Forum)

– Speeding (results and Constabulary response published)

– The Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies joint proposals for a

shared Contact and Control Room.

• Plans for three business forums, seven public

meetings and seven roadshows in 2014;

• Public Survey: 92% of people feel safe in Suffolk

• Operation Galileo (cross-border

activity on hare coursing)

• Two rural crime teams

• Expanded economic crime unit

• A14 Summit

• Commissioned UCS research into domestic

abuse and business crime

• Innovative use of, and investment in, specials

• Investment in police cadets

• Investment in additional police officers

• ‘Passmore Priorities’

Key actions in 2013/14

Throughout 2013/14 I have commissioned grants of

£700,000. Examples include: • Community Safety Partnerships

• Supporting Young People: Positive Futures, Prince’s Trust

• Marine Watch

• Motorcycle training

• Neighbourhood Watch

• Suffolk Rape Crisis

• Waveney Domestic Violence and Abuse Forum

• Drug Testing on Arrest, interventions with drug users

• Youth Offending Service Triage

• Best Bar None & Taxi Marshalls

• CCTV

• Streetwatch

• Community Speedwatch

Supporting community safety

Looking Ahead 2014/15

• No key changes to Police & Crime Plan

• Policing element of council tax frozen for the

second year

• Improvements in the way we work • Collaboration (including blue light services)

• Procurement

• Public sector estate / Estates Review

• Zero based budgeting

• Technology / ICT Review

• Investment in ANPR, Enterprise Resource Planning

• Victims commissioning from October 2014

• Business Advisory Board / Voluntary Sector Forum

• Links with academia

• Safer Suffolk Fund launched

Douglas Paxton

Chief Constable

Current Issues • Crime reduction, resolution and

satisfaction

• Fraud and Social Media

• Tackling vulnerability

• Dealing with what matters to our communities

– Driving standards

– Anti-social behaviour

• Preserving the front line through collaboration

• Future planning

Chief Inspector

Andrew Mason Strategic Policing Command

(West)

Inspector Paul Crick Babergh Local

Policing Command

Performance Overview

Babergh

• Domestic burglary – 41 fewer

victims

• Anti-Social Behaviour Incidents –

28% reduction meaning 828 fewer

victims

• Sexual offences – 16 more reports

Figures based upon 3 year average for Babergh district

Local Priorities

• Factory Lane (Brantham) / Bypass

Nurseries (Capel St Mary) / Birch

Drive (Brantham) : ASB / Driving

• Catalytic Converter thefts

• Brantham Angling Club: Damage /

ASB

Working in your area

• Crime prevention - Pinewood

• Operation Bandbox

• Lynmouth - Burglary other building

• Reducing the crimes that cause

communities most harm

• Babergh volunteer Police Cadets

• Streetwatch

• CCTV Volunteers

Volunteer activity

Over to you…