1. Strategic Assessment 2016-17
Nicholas Hall
Community Safety Data Analyst
Community Safety Partnership
All statistics contained within this document are provisional and cover the period between (01/04/ /11/2016)

2. What is a Strategic Assessment?
The 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

3. Community Safety Partnership Priorities
The following areas were identified as priorities for the CSP from the Strategic Assessment :
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.

4. 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 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)

5. 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% ( crimes)
1st/32
SERIOUS ACQUISITIVE CRIME
1601
Up 17% ( crimes)
5th/32

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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 ; 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);

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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