This page offers you information on current policing news, particularly happening across the Metropolitan Police Service, and which especially has implications for the MPS and its local policing partnerships including the Paddington Hyde Park Sector Working Group (SWG).
For more details on the above major police/community consultative group click here
For the development of this SWG and MPS community relations partnership, and more information, click here
Setting the Policing Priorities for London - Policing and Performance Plan
The publication of the Metropolitan Police Authority Policing and Performance Plan provides details of the Metropolitan Police Service corporate priorities, objectives, measures and targets set by the MPA for the coming year.
The corporate priorities have been set against a complex range of considerations including the National Policing Plan, an extensive public consultation process, 'Towards the Safest City ' - MPS strategy plan, local crime and disorder strategies, to which the police/community Sector Working Group make a contribution and the Mayoral priorities. For the first time there is also the Corporate Strategic Assessment.
In addition to the usual statutory requirements, the full plan details how all the various strands identified the following priority areas:
Protecting the Capital against Terrorism
Reducing Serious Crime
Promoting Reassurance
For information on this Policing Performance Plan please visit http://www.met.police.uk/about/plans.htm
Visit a detailed summary of the Plan.
Please note that this summary will be updated 2007 onwards.
Trust in the Met up, fear of crime down
Trust in the Metropolitan Police Service (The MET) is increasing and fear of crime is falling, according to the results of a comprehensive survey.
Results from the Public Attitude Survey - an annual measurement of Londoners' perceptions of policing needs, priorities and experiences - show that 79 per cent of people trust the police, the highest rating in nine years.
Fear of crime has decreased, with worry about robbery, burglary and attack down by 8 per cent, 7 per cent, and 6 per cent respectively.
When 10,000 Londoners were interviewed about the Met's Safer Neighbourhoods programme - rolling out teams of locally-based officers across London, the MET found that, compared to other Londoners, residents on wards with Safer Neighbourhoods teams feel:
** they are safer than 12 months ago;
** that the crime rate has dropped during the last two years;
** that antisocial behaviour has improved during the last two years;
** that they see a uniformed police officer more frequently;
** the frequency at which they see officers is "about right".
The findings reflect the results of a MORI poll carried out for the Greater London Authority in October 2004 which shows 45 per cent of Londoners have seen more uniformed officers (police and PCSOs) around London during the past year.
Of these, 71 per cent said it made them feel "a great deal" or "a fair amount" safer, while 54 per cent said they thought having more officers had reduced crime, and 57 per cent thought it had reduced antisocial behaviour.
To continue improvements in the quality of your neighbourhoods and reduce crime and disorder join your police/community partnership sector working group in Paddington, Hyde Park, Bayswater at our contact page at http://www.padpolice.com/joinswg.php
Sir Ian Blair QPM
Commissioner Metropolitan Police
Sir Ian Blair QPM MA, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 2005, responded to the report by the Morris Inquiry
Sir Ian said:
The Metropolitan Police Authority, encouraged by the MPS, set up the Morris inquiry to look at professional standards and employment matters
within the Met to address areas of concern and, where necessary, introduce improvements. It must be recognised that the Met is an
organisation where record numbers of people are queuing to join; fewer people than ever before are leaving and police sickness is
at an all time low.Most importantly, we are delivering across the board in reducing and solving crime and this has been
acknowledged by the inquiry which praises the Met for our operational effectiveness. Of course there is no room for complacency
and some of the criticisms, which we readily accept, are around aspects of our processes and culture. The organisation is
continually striving to modernise itself and changes have already been introduced to improve the way we look after our people."
To view Sir Ian's full response visit http://www.met.police.uk/prn/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2004_0172
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