Strategic Assessment 2016-17 Nicholas Hall Community Safety Data Analyst Community Safety Partnership Nicholas.Hall@richmond.gov.uk 0208 891 7079 All statistics contained within this document are provisional and cover the period between (01/04/2016-31/11/2016)

What is a Strategic Assessment? The 2016-17 Strategic Intelligence Assessment is a statutory document produced on a yearly basis. Its purpose is to provide an overview of crime and disorder for the previous year, and to make recommendations as to the Community Safety Partnership priorities for the forthcoming year. It is a Partnership assessment and includes analysis of data and expert information from a number of sources: Police London Ambulance Service Richmond Council London Fire Brigade NHS Richmond Achieving for Children London Probation Service - Community Rehabilitation Company - National Probation Service

Community Safety Partnership Priorities The following areas were identified as priorities for the CSP from the Strategic Assessment 2015-16: Anti-social behaviour (ASB); Town centre crime and night time economy; Domestic abuse; Re-offending including drugs misuse; Burglary; High volume low level crime awareness.

1. A Safer London Richmond upon Thames is currently the fourth safest borough in London for overall crime. The safest borough is Bexley. Our most similar borough (by crime rate per 1,000 population) is Kingston, which is fifth; (12 months rolling); Richmond is the safest borough for violent offences in London, (a rate of 18.26 crimes per 1,000 population, compared to the next borough (Harrow) which had 20.7 crimes per 1,000); (12 months rolling); Overall, crime in the borough is higher by 658 (+9%) crimes from April-November 2016, compared to April-November 2015. Police recorded ASB is up by 7%% (+ 181 calls) Council recorded ASB is up by 30% (+1117 reports)

1.A Safer Richmond Crime Overview (April-November 2016) CRIME TYPE TOTAL CHANGE POSITION ALL CRIME 7946 Up 9% (+ 658 crimes) 4th/32 BURGLARY 917 Down 0% (- 4 crimes) 8th/32 Residential 485 Up 7% (+33 crimes) Non-Residential 432 Down 8% (- 37 crimes) 22nd/32 VEHICLE CRIME 1279 Up 32% (+308 crimes) 13th/32 Theft of 368 Up 33% (+ 92 crimes) 11th/32 Theft from 683 Up 25%( +137 crimes) VIOLENCE 2427 Up 8% ( + 180 crimes) 1st/32 SERIOUS ACQUISITIVE CRIME 1601 Up 17% (+ 234 crimes) 5th/32

3. A Better CJS for London- IOM Richmond Integrated Offender Management Year (Previous 12 months rate: 66%) Re-offend rate% Re-Offend Number Max cohort number IOM Year One (12-13) 31% 11 35 IOM year Two (13-14) 56% 14 25 IOM Year Three (14-15) 33% 9 27 IOM Year Four (15-16) 18 32 The re-offending rate during the last four years of the IOM scheme remains below the 66% baseline; both the first and third year rates were impressive.

4. Keeping Children and Young People Safe Child Sexual Exploitation Between April and December 2015 there were 16 cases of alleged CSE investigated and classified, of these 16, nine are currently open In 2015 there were 3 cases discussed at MACSE (Multi Agency Child Sexual Exploitation Meetings) per month, this has fallen to just 2.28 cases per month in 2016 81% of alleged victims were female and three quarters were recorded as White British. All victims were aged between 12 and 17, only one was aged below 14

5. Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse crime levels in Richmond have risen by 0.7%. From April- November 2016, there were 718 incidents compared to 713 for the previous period; There have been 168 high risk Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference cases during 2015-16; this is a 13% (+19) rise in cases from last year; Repeat cases have risen by (16)7% between April-November 2016 Controlling behaviour is the main type of domestic abuse suffered in Richmond borough according to caseworker returns A rise in male victims and female suspects has been observed in the last three years. There has also been a rise in family based DV (Mothers were the main victim);

6. Standing Together Hate Crime There were 168 Police recorded hate crime incidents during 2016, which is a increase of 32 crimes on 2015, 68%(110) of victims were listed as residents(where data was available) The increase is due to more reports being officially recorded on police systems as a crime than in previous years; allegations or incidents have now become crimes, there have also been a number of brexit related hate crimes during this period. Statistics from MOPAC show that hate crime reports across the 32 London Boroughs have doubled since 2011    Met Police Hate Crime Homophobic Racist Faith Disability  Total A-N12 10% 83% 6% 1% 7829 A-N13 81% 8% 7993 A-N14 80% 9% 10304 A-N15 11% 79% 12174 A-N16 76% 4% 14784

Road Safety Traffic data has been supplied by the Environment and Community Services department with data available from the year to March 2015 and year to March 2016 The data shows casualties in the borough are down by 16%, with 453 casualties in the 12 months to March 2016, compared to 539 in the year to March 2015. There was 1 fatality in the 12 months to March 2016, compared to 3 in the previous year. The number of people being killed or seriously injured in the 12 months to March 2016 was unchanged from the previous year.  

Suggested Priorities for 2017-18 Safer Neighbourhoods; - Local Priorities: Burglary, Vehicle Crime, ASB, Crimes Against the Elderly - Measures to be confirmed Reducing Re-Offending; Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls ; Keep Children and Young People Safe; Standing Together Against Extremism and Hatred - Mandatory high harm measures to be confirmed