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TITLE & VERSION SAFER ISLINGTON PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIC
ASSESSMENT REVIEW 2014_2015
Authors Islington CSPU Intelligence Team
Organisation London Borough of Islington and Metropolitan Police,
Islington
Summary/Purpose 2014-15 Strategic Assessment
Protective Marking Public Version
Date Created March 2014
Review Date September 2014
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Contents
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Executive Summary ........................................................................... 4
Current Control Strategy for 2013 - 2014.......................................... 5
Review of the Borough Crime Picture……........................................... 6
Amendment of Control Strategy ...................................................... 17
Next Steps …..................................................................................... 18
Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………19
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Executive Summary
Following a review of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998) and the Police and Justice Act (2006), a
requirement was placed on Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to produce an annual
strategic assessment of crime and disorder with a mid-year review. This is the Safer Islington
Partnerships (SIP) seventh strategic assessment, the aim of which is to analyse the current strategic
priorities, establish an accurate picture of crime and disorder and propose any changes to the
control strategy for the 2014 – 2015 financial year.
During January 2013 to December 2013 Islington saw a 12% decrease in overall Total Notifiable
Offences (TNO) compared to the previous twelve months. This decrease means a reversal in the
trend of rising overall crime seen in 2012. This decrease is a combination of reductions across most
crime types on the borough.
The violence portfolio has also seen a decrease of 10% - with decreases seen in most areas of
violence such as domestic violence (DV), serious youth violence (SYV) and alcohol violence. Serious
violence, although showing significant increase is a direct result of Home Office changes to the
classification of the level of injury needed to be sustained to constitute a serious offence.
There have been significant reductions seen in most areas of the property crime portfolio too –
notably robbery, residential burglary and other theft. However continuous year-on-year increases in
theft person offences (driven by theft snatch) and the recent rise in non-residential burglary are the
areas of current concern.
The revised control strategy for 2013 – 2014 focused on five key priorities, namely mobile phone
crime, young gangs and groups, drugs markets, crimes against businesses and alcohol & the night
time economy with violence against women and girls, cross border issues, early intervention,
offender management, prevent and anti-social behaviour as the crosscutting themes. As a result of
analysing the borough crime picture and consideration of other performance influencing factors
there have been no recommended changes to this – however, there have been a few changes in the
key crime & disorder issues contributing to the borough crime picture which are detailed below and
will require a multi-partnership approach to tackling.
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Robbery / Theft Person Theft Snatch Young Offenders Caledonian Road and surrounding area
Second Hand Markets Finsbury Park Finsbury Park Estates and surrounding areas
EC Area EC and surrounding area
The Triangle
Canonbury Road Area
Non Res in the EC area Angel
Theft Clerkenwell
Most targeted Premises Nags Head
Top Licensed Premises
Anti-Social Behaviour
Offender Management
Violence Against Women and Girls
Early Interventions
Cross Border Issues
Prevent
Crimes Against Businesses
Cross Cutting Themes
Alcohol and Night Time Economy
Drug MarketsYoung Gangs and GroupsMobile Phone Crime
Current Control Strategy 2013 – 2014
The 2013-2014 Islington Control Strategy focused on five main priorities; namely Mobile Phone
Crime, Young Gangs & Groups, Drugs Markets, Crimes Against Businesses and the Alcohol & Night
Time Economy. Prior work and analysis indicated that underlying all of these priorities were issues
surrounding Violence Against Women & Girls, Cross Border Issues, Early Intervention, Offender
Management, Prevent and Anti-Social Behaviour. Each priority has a number of key problems driving
the issue on borough. These have been listed below each and have a multi-agency work strand
attached to each (development plan)
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Borough Crime Picture Review
Between January 2013 and December 2013 Islington had a total of 24,593 Notifiable Offences,
representing a 12% decrease in crime levels compared to the previous twelve month period. This is
one of the most significant total crime reductions recorded on the borough and is a reversal of the
increasing overall crime trend seen throughout 2012/13. In Apr 2013 MOPAC challenged each
London borough to reduce seven types of crime by 20% over four years. The table below displays
the current performance for Islington in relation to these seven crime types, highlighting areas of
positive performance such as the reduction in robbery and violence with injury and the increase in
theft person offences.
Crime Type Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Difference % change Direction of Travel
Total Notifiable Offences 28017 24593 -3424 -12 ↓
MOPAC 7 Offences 13428 13031 -397 -3 ↓
Violence With Injury Offences 1847 1722 -125 -7 ↓
Burglary (total) Offences 2430 2412 -18 -1 ↓
Robbery Offences 1197 963 -234 -20 ↓
Theft From MV Offences 1812 1705 -107 -6 ↓
Theft From Person Offences 3646 3961 315 9 ↑
Theft/Taking Of MV Offences 601 633 32 5 →
Criminal Damage Offences 1895 1635 -260 -14 ↓
Domestic Incidents 3893 3767 -126 -3 ↓
Domestic Offences 1625 1547 -78 -5 ↓
DV VWI Offences 539 485 -54 -10 ↓
Crime performance in Islington has been very encouraging, with reductions in five of the seven
target MOPAC areas and in crime levels overall. The main challenge remains around Theft Person
Offences which have been increasing on the borough for nearly five years now. The graph illustrates
this pictorially.
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This is the most significant risk area for the borough in terms of achieving the MOPAC reduction
target, given its contribution to the overall level (currently 30.4%).
A full breakdown of performance against all crime types is shown in Appendix 1. The other area of
concern is the significant increase in Non-Residential Burglary offences (14%) which if it continues
could soon affect the overall burglary performance on the borough.
Violent Crime
Violent crime in Islington has decreased by 10% between January 2013 and December 2013 when
compared to the previous twelve months. This is a reversal of the trend seen in 2012 where
increases of over 25% in Domestic Violence (DV) levels meant overall violent crime also rose.
However, in 2013 the number of DV incidences, offences and more significantly violence with injury
levels fell by 3%, 5% and 10% respectively. Hence not only the volume incidents but also the severity
offences have been decreasing over the last 12 months.
Last year SIP authorised the creation of a panel to focus on offender management and create
referral pathways for those working with the perpetrators of DV. This panel meeting has been
running for approximately six months and an initial evaluation highlighted the effective partnership
information sharing and working protocols existing here. With the introduction of a coordinator to
facilitate both this panel and the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC - panel to tackle
the risk posed to DV victims) the aim is to improve the working relationships and referral pathways
for those involved in DV across the borough, in particular to increase the referral rate from key front
line agencies where this rate is deemed significantly lower than expected. The current MARAC
process was recently reviewed and highlighted as good practice across London. Focus was placed
over the last 12 months on raising the awareness across agencies of the Violence Against Women
and Girls agenda which has increased the understanding and referral rates across agencies, in
particular in relation to Female Genital Mutilation and Child Sexual Exploitation.
The first Multi-Agency Sexual Exploitation panel (MASE) will be launched at the end of January 2014
focusing on young girls at risk of / are being sexually exploited. This will run in tandem with the
current Bronze panel (targeting young people committing serious violence) and there is a strong
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partnership will that this new panel will be able to deal more effectively with cases of this nature
and identify possible links and common themes between them which can be dealt with at a more
strategic level.
Sex offences have seen a 3% increase over the last year which is largely linked to victims being more
confident to report historic offences in light of the publicity recently afforded to very high profile
celebrity cases. A challenge for the borough over the next 12 months is the continuation of the
North London Rape Crisis Provision when further financial pressures arise.
Serious violence, although showing significant increase is a direct result of Home Office changes to
the classification of the level of injury needed to be sustained to constitute a serious offence.
Other areas of violent crime have again seen significant decreases over the last 12 months - Serious
Youth Violence (14%), Knife (35%) and Gun Crime (3%). This is again largely due to targeted
enforcement, prevention and engagement work that has been undertaken against gangs and
individuals who commit violence and robbery operating on the borough. Since Apr 2013 there has
been relatively little gang violence or other gang crime in the borough that has come to notice and
serious youth violence has been falling since 2011. The significant gang that operated in the north of
the borough was virtually been disbanded due to the number of members imprisoned for offences in
connection to a murder or being moved / re-housed away from Islington. Regular monitoring is in
place to track any individuals who attempt to “step up” and take over this territory and drugs
market.
Only two gangs are thought to be “active” on the borough – one in Finsbury Park and the other
operating in the EC area. Both are currently the focus of targeted enforcement and interventions
from a variety of agencies including the new police Gangs Unit and Job Centre Plus who, in
partnership with others, ran the first Jobs Fair for gang members this month (January 2014). At least
six known gang nominals attended and signed up for various job-seeking activities and further
similar job fairs are planned across the borough throughout 2014.
The Home Office Ending Gang Violence Peer Review (December 2012) gave Islington excellent
feedback around the work currently undertaken to tackle gangs and serious youth violence, with the
Bronze Group (mentioned earlier) being identified as good practice nationwide and is now
referenced in the MPS Gangs Handbook. The introduction of the 18-24 transitions team who work
with the borough’s top gang members in this age range and attempt to divert them away from gang
life, has also been very successful in tackling gang crime and violence overall. An evaluation on
progress of this team is expected later this year.
The challenge for the borough this year in this area is to maintain the excellent reductions achieved
in light of tighter budget constraints and other external influences such as Transforming
Rehabilitation (discussed later).
Alcohol-related violence (15%) and alcohol crime (20%) continue to decrease across the borough.
However, alcohol related call outs to the London Ambulance Service increased 14% to 2118 (Apr 13
to Dec 13). This suggests there are still significant issues with alcohol consumption on the borough
affecting many areas of the partnership’s business as well as community safety - and possibly a
significant volume of un-reporting of this type of crime. Stronger links with the health sector remain
a priority to allow an even greater understanding and partnership response to dealing with issues
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connected to alcohol and substance misuse overall. The possible introduction of the Late Night Levy,
which is currently in the consultation stage, could generate income to partners to help tackle this
issue and the eventual roll out of the victims of violence project (mark three) with the Whittington
Hospital should hopefully improve the identification and referral rate of victims previously
unidentified.
Property Crime
Crime involving the theft of a mobile phone continues to drive a vast majority of crime on the
borough. This type of crime now accounts for nearly 25% of all crime on the borough over the last
12 months.
As stated above, Theft Person offences (9% increase) continues to be the main priority for the
borough and a significant concern for the MPS London wide. Theft Person is derived of two
subcategories - Theft Snatch and Theft Pickpocket. Theft Snatch has increased by 21% over the last
12 months while Theft Pickpocket has decreased by 6% over the same period. The decrease in
pickpocket is largely due to the focused activity of police and partners working with local businesses
to provide crime prevention advice for customers and taking steps to make it more difficult for
perpetrators to steal items. Offender management has placed a key role too in relation to gaining
and enforcing suitable judicial restrictions on offenders, in particular those who do not reside on the
borough including working with the immigration service to target offenders who do not have
permission to remain in the country. The focused work with businesses has also lead to a reduction
of Other Theft offences (24%) which are generally similar in nature. This fall in Other Theft has been
the major contributor to the reduction in overall crime levels as it contributes the biggest
percentage of total.
Theft Snatch is clearly the boroughs crime of concern and is the key risk area in achieving the
MOPAC reduction target stated earlier. It now accounts for 60% of overall Theft Person offences
which is up from 57% six months ago. This offence type remains driven by young people snatching
smartphones (mainly I-Phones) from victims while they use them, with the summer months
witnessing the highest levels of offences ever seen on the borough. The offender is generally on a
pedal cycle but the use of mopeds in this type of offence has increased considerably over the last
month or so having previously reduced. This has contributed to the 5% increase in theft of motor
vehicles on the borough which are mainly two-wheeled vehicles being stolen for use in either these
theft snatch offences or non-residential burglaries (described below). Islington offenders are still
responsible for a significant proportion of similar offences in neighbouring boroughs and further
afield. Analysis to understand the stolen goods market in existence in the borough continues with
action being taken to disrupt this. There remains a high number of offenders involved in this type of
crime which covers the most prolific to first time offenders - also suggesting that peer sharing of this
practice is occurring. It is this issue that is believed to have caused the significant increase in re-
offending rates seen in the Youth Offending Service (YOS) in 2013 where approximately half of the
young offenders being tracked have gone on to re-offend.
A variety of multiagency initiatives are aligned to tackling this issue including:
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Proactive targeted policing operations particularly successful in during November and
December 2013 and leading to a significant reduction of offences in the EC area
Police, Courts and Crown Prosecution Service launching an Enhanced Sentencing Scheme for
Theft Snatch offenders
Achilles Heel process now launched to explore the range of partnership enforcement
options available to help tackle the offending of those deemed to be committing the most
crime or influencing others. The focus has been on theft snatch offenders and gang
members
The Bronze group has now been adapted to deal with Theft Snatch offenders as well as
those committing serious violence
A cross borough policing team has been introduced to target those offending across
numerous boroughs
Burglary has seen a slight reduction (1%) over the last twelve months – which has been contrasted
by the reduction in residential offences (11%) but the increase in Non-Residential offences (14%).
The biggest success in residential burglary has been the reduction in offences north of the Camden
Road / Seven Sisters Road. Previously this area accounted for over 60% of the overall residential
burglaries committed on the borough. That figures now stands at approximately 35% and is largely
due to the crime prevention and Simple to Start methodology applied to the key streets and areas
suffering disproportionately high levels of offences. The main area of concern for residential
burglaries has been the Mildmay and Highbury East wards for the last six to eight months. This is
believed to be linked to the number of bail hostels / approved premises located in the area that host
a large number of the borough’s prolific offenders. Improving relationships with these venues has
been a focus of the offender management work over the last few months and this will continue over
the forthcoming year.
Non-residential burglary increases were largely driven by office venues being targeted for their
computer equipment overnight in the EC area during the first eight months or so of the year. The
South Neighbourhood policing team undertook a significant amount of work with key partners and
local businesses to attempt to make vulnerable premises more secure, undertake penetration tests
(testing security checks conducted by the businesses at various entry points) and utilise traceable
liquid technology. This work was rolled out across neighbouring boroughs who were also suffering
similar issues and was joined up with offender targeting work such as use of ANPR cameras to track
motorbikes / mopeds of perpetrators in and out of the area. The net effect has been a significant
reduction in this type of offences for the last third of the year.
The main area of concern in this type of crime is currently pedal cycles being stolen from communal
hallways and sheds. Due to the nature of this crime, this contributes to both the Non-Residential and
Residential totals and is spread across the borough. The focus for the coming year is to develop a
multi-agency response involving the police, council and relevant registered landlords to tackle this
issue.
All other types of property crime are showing varying degrees of reduction. This suggests that the
rise in thefts possibly expected as a result of austerity and benefit cuts has still not currently been
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witnessed. Further monitoring and analysis will take place over the coming year, focusing on socio-
crimes such as shoplifting to examine if there are any changes seen.
The decreases witnessed across most property crime categories are testament to the success in the
Offender Management approach adopted on the borough. The Integrated Offender Management
(IOM) scheme won a national Probation award for the multi-agency work undertaken and the
improvement in the number of offenders accessing education, training and employment. There has
also been a reduction in offending across all offender cohorts currently managed on the borough.
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)
The key ASB issues being reported through either the police 101 or the council’s ASB reporting line
relate to either rowdy / inconsiderate behaviour or neighbour disputes which each account for
approximately a third of the overall complaints in 2013. Temporally, the majority of calls (again a
third) are received in the evenings between 2000 and midnight. Over 50% of calls originate from
residents in social housing. Improving the relationships with the numerous registered social
landlords (RSLs) in the borough and joining up responses to tackling issues as they occur is a key
strand of the work in this area for the future, including the potential of selling council ASB services to
RSLs such as the Out of Hours Response Team who attend ASB calls and attempt to deal with them.
There remains a clear disparity with the number of calls being received per ward, with the highest
(Clerkenwell) suffering three times as many calls as the lowest (St Georges) – yet residents in St
Georges’ and Mildmay (also fairly low levels of crime and ASB recorded) have the lowest level of
confidence in police and community safety (PAS survey results). The reasons need exploring further
but are likely to be connected to the constant crime prevention material delivered in this area
(residential burglary and motor vehicle crime hotspot in St Georges and residential burglary and
youth violence / potential gangs issue in Mildmay) and could potentially benefit from some more
targeted communications. The issues in Clerkenwell stem from a mix of transport hub issues from
Kings Cross, street population linked to No Second Night Out and youth issues connected to theft
snatch offenders and EC gang members.
Two main areas of concern have been seen over the last 12 months, both for mainly youth ASB
issues: The Triangle in EC1 and the area around Canonbury Road N1. The Triangle has been an ASB
hotspot on the borough for over a year, generated by residents calling about young people hanging
about, dealing drugs and being abusive. On a number of occasions when officers (either police or
ASB response) have attended they have had items thrown at them as the young people run off. A
number of calls also related to street population issues mainly focused against one particular couple
but this issue has been resolved. There are a number of repeat callers located here which also
contribute to the overall hotspot seen. This area has been the south neighbourhood policing team
and the south MAGPI (multi-agency panel tackling low level crime and ASB) key priority area over
the last few months and will remain so into the next financial year.
The area around Canonbury Road has arisen over the last six months or so when a large number of
young people began congregating outside a number of addresses where known offending families
were residing. This manifested into general ASB, drug taking / dealing and nuisance for residents and
leading to the area becoming of concern for the borough. The young people included a number of
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prolific theft snatch offenders who would use this area as their “base” before going off to commit
snatch offences in the surrounding area (which has lead this surrounding area to become the main
theft snatch area on the borough). Due to the nature of the offending (being a key borough priority)
this has led to a vast amount of partnership activity directed here including various policing
operations, tenancy action, youth worker deployments and targeted Achilles Heel work (described
earlier). This has had a positive impact in terms of reducing the ASB seen here but there is a concern
that the problem has shifted to a degree to New North Road nearby. This area of work remains a
priority for the partnership going into the next year.
The new ASB & Community Engagement subgroup has helped shape the intelligence sharing
processes designed to improve the short and long terms tasking of resources. Community Safety
officers now brief the Out of Hours ASB officers on a weekly basis to ensure they understand the
current borough issues and develop the feedback loop for improving the information flow.
A significant challenge remains around the identification and multi-agency response in dealing with
repeat callers and in particular vulnerable victims. The ASB Action Group (ASBAG) has significantly
improved the partnerships effectiveness with dealing with repeat ASB callers, including finally linking
mental health services in with this agenda. The partnership commitment for the forthcoming year is
to convert the ASBAG into a Community MARAC (learning from the Ealing approach) which will
incorporate vulnerable adults who are linked to the community safety agenda. This will involve
rolling out the use of vulnerability risk assessment forms across the partnership and improving the
number and quality of the referrals made. Mental Health services will be instrumental in making this
a success and hence further negotiation is required regarding the wealth of experience and expertise
they can bring to the table. The new forum will no doubt present some challenges for the
partnership to work through around dealing with the vulnerabilities presented but also highlight key
opportunities for closer working between agencies and potential shared service benefits.
Part of the MOPAC challenge over the next four years is to increase public confidence in policing and
community safety by 20%. In response Islington police have introduced a new Confidence Plan that,
through the ASB & Community Engagement subgroup, now needs to be driven across the
partnership. The focus of the plan is based on improved engagement and fairness, which
incorporates Stop & Search (S&S). A vast amount of partnership work has been directed to examine
the stop and search process currently employed on the borough, leading to refined targets for S&S
outcomes, clarity of expectation for officers and those being stopped and clearer accountability and
supervision. The overall aim was to attempt to rectify the disproportionality seen in recent S&S
performance figures. This has led to a significant improvement in the whole S&S process with the
latest figures being very encouraging (figures available on request).
The proposed new ASB Bill is currently being discussed by the current Government which, if agreed,
will come into force in the Autumn of 2014. The aim of this bill is to drastically reduce the number of
ASB powers and legislation currently in existence and simplify it under new powers. Should this be
the case there will need to be discussions and agreements across all levels of partners involved in SIP
to sign off how Islington will adopt the new powers, with significant input from legal partners. As
before, this will create a number of challenges and opportunities for tackling ASB differently and
potentially more effectively.
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Fairness & Equalities
Fairness and Equality is one of Islington Council’s underlying objectives. In the community safety
arena this has been focused around reducing the number of young black people involved in stop
and search by 20% and of those stopped, increasing the proportion where there are ground for
arrest to at least 20%.
Through a variety of tactics and partnership initiatives search on young black people has fallen 43%
in 2013 in comparison to 2012. When compared to the 2012 figure it is possible to see an
improvement in level of arrest rates for young black men for the 10-17 age group for all quarters.
However, none of the quarters meet the 20% target. This is in contrast to the 18-24 age group which
meets the 20% target for all quarters apart from July to September. These figures demonstrate that
although there are significant improvements in increasing the rate of justifiable stops this has not
been consistent for the different age groups and that more work needs to be done in relation to
increasing the level of justifiable stop and searches for 10 to 17 year olds.
Further engagement with local BME groups and community representatives has highlighted
concerns around religious hate crime, particularly around harassment faced by many Muslim
women. Although such reports are rarely made to the police the anecdotal information available to
the partnership suggests that this is a key issue for the community and during 2014/15 the SIP will
support work to engage the affected communities and groups to build trust and encourage
reporting.
Financial and Other Possible Influencing Factors
Significant budget pressures for all members of the Safer Islington Partnership (and other key
agencies) remain a major challenge for achieving crime reduction and other community safety
targets over the next year and beyond. The loss of a number of grants, and potential cuts in core
funding is likely to result in a number of current projects being decommissioned and closer working
relationships and shared services / commissioning practices will become even more crucial.
The removal of police local intelligence units in February 2014 will present a significant challenge
and processes are currently being developed to minimise the effect this will have on the excellent
information sharing practices currently in place. These include upskilling community safety
intelligence staff to use MPS systems and forging close links with the new Neighbourhood
Intelligence Hub for North London which will cover Islington.
The launch of new technologies (such as any new smartphone) could push phone crime levels yet
higher if the market demand remains. Equally, more sophisticated security, such as fingerprint
recognition, may help to reduce levels if a counter measure is not quickly discovered.
The effects of Government legislation such as the benefit cap, universal credit, rental arrangement
changes and bedroom tax could see a change to the social make-up of the borough as families may
be forced to move to more affordable accommodation. This will present both opportunities and
challenges around managing and tracking troubled and problem families. Achilles Heel will focus a
vast amount of effort in influencing behaviour using these powers.
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The Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme is due to launch this year which will see the current
Probation Service no longer exist and be replaced by a National Probation Service (NPS) and
Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). This will mean offenders deemed high risk will be
managed by the NPS and all other offenders (who have spent any time in prison) will be managed by
the CRCs – which have yet to be announced and will follow once the Government has agreed who
the Primary Contractors are. These will then commission the CRCs locally. The CRCs will potentially
have no / limited knowledge of dealing with offenders or Islington’s local crime issues so will need
significant partnership help to adapt to the challenges faced and fit in to the current offender
management arrangements currently in place. The majority of offenders currently managed by our
offender cohorts (gangs, Bronze, prolific offenders, etc) will be managed by the CRCs meaning the
partnership will need to adopt new offender management working practices to take account of the
CRC transitions and also re-evaluate how current operating models that are based in Probation (such
as the IOM and 18-24 Transitions Team) will then function.
Linked to the TR programme is the potential Resettlement Agenda for Prisons which, if given the go
ahead will mean HMP Pentonville and HMP Holloway will house Islington offenders for a period of
time prior to their release (currently offenders are transferred to a number of prisons nationwide
and will be released directly from these). This will cause the prison service a number of issues,
particularly in relation to managing the high levels of offenders already passing through and
supporting the courts locally. However, it would also present the borough some real benefit
potential in being able to undertake targeted re-settlement work with offenders prior to their
release. Announcements on the resettlement agenda are due to be made later this year.
Islington has been identified as a Prevent borough by the Home Office, meaning it is seen as a
borough that can contribute significantly towards preventing violent extremism and in particular
terrorism. One of the main issues currently faced by the borough is the crisis in Syria and how young
people on the borough express their concerns and anxieties in connection with this. Recent incidents
have shown that there have been a number of believed isolated cases where Islington residents
have travelled to Syria to attempt to influence the issue, either by humanitarian means or to join the
fight. This issue has become one of the main areas of focus for the new Prevent Network Forum
(represented by a diverse cross section of the Islington community) and will be a key area of the
borough Prevent work in the forthcoming year.
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Robbery / Theft Person Theft Snatch Young Offenders Caledonian Road and surrounding area
Second Hand Markets Serious Youth Violence Finsbury Park Estates and surrounding areas
Finsbury Park EC and surrounding area
EC Area
The Triangle
Canonbury Road Area
Non Res in the EC area Angel
Theft Clerkenwell
Most targeted Premises Nags Head
Top Licensed Premises
Anti-Social Behaviour
Offender Management
Violence Against Women and Girls
Early Interventions
Cross Border Issues
Prevent
Crimes Against Businesses
Cross Cutting Themes
Alcohol and Night Time Economy
Drug MarketsYoung Gangs and GroupsMobile Phone Crime
Amended Control Strategy 2014 – 2015
The below diagram is an illustrative representation for the proposed Control Strategy for Islington
for the 2014-15 financial year. This is based on the changes in the current Borough Crime Picture
explained above.
Hence the Control Strategy will continue to consist of five strands:
Mobile Phone Crime
Youth Gangs & Groups
Drugs Markets
Crimes Against Businesses
Alcohol & Night Time Economy
There are six cutting themes spanning these strands:
Anti-Social Behaviour
Offender Management
Violence Against Women & Girls
Early Intervention
Cross Border Issues
Prevent (extremism)
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Next Steps The proposed minor changes to the current Control Strategy need to be agreed by the Safer Islington
Partnership Strategic Board. If accepted, owners for these strands need to be agreed and tasked
with the creation / adaption of a multi-agency partnership plan to tackle the issue.
The Borough Crime Picture, and hence the Control Strategy will be reviewed and evaluated in
September 2014 during the Strategic Assessment Mid-Year Review.
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Appendix Appendix 1: Crime Performance in Islington
Crime TypeJan 2012 -
Dec 2012
Jan 2013 -
Dec 2013Difference % change
Direction of
Travel
Violent Offences
Assault with Injury Offences 1572 1162 -410 -26 ↓
Common Assault Offences 1378 1320 -58 -4 ↓
Gun Crime Offences 36 35 -1 -3 ↓
Harassment Offences 1802 1590 -212 -12 ↓
Knife Crime Offences 406 263 -143 -35 ↓
Most Serious Violence Offences 274 558 284 104 ↑
Murder Offences 4 5 1 25 →
Offensive Weapon Offences 134 116 -18 -13 ↓
Other Violence Offences 223 209 -14 -6 ↓
Serious Wounding Offences 261 542 281 108 ↑
Serious Youth Violence 154 132 -22 -14 ↓
Sexual Offences 297 306 9 3 ↑
VAP Offences 5374 4944 -430 -8 ↓
Violence With Injury Offences 1847 1722 -125 -7 ↓
Violent Crime Offences 6868 6213 -655 -10 ↓
Youth Violence 375 326 -49 -13 ↓
Property Crime
Burglary (total) Offences 2430 2412 -18 -1 ↓
Burglary (non-res) Offences 1005 1146 141 14 ↑
Burglary (res) Offences 1425 1266 -159 -11 ↓
Handling Stolen Goods Offences 78 88 10 13 ↓
Motor Vehicle Crime Offences 2413 2338 -75 -3 ↓
Other Theft Offences 5281 3995 -1286 -24 ↓
Robbery Business Offences 67 69 2 3 →
Robbery Offences 1197 963 -234 -20 ↓
Robbery Personal Offences 1130 894 -236 -21 ↓
Theft & Handling Offences 13802 12485 -1317 -10 ↓
Theft From MV Offences 1812 1705 -107 -6 ↓
Theft From Person Offences 3646 3961 315 9 ↑
Theft From Shops Offences 1098 936 -162 -15 ↓
Theft Of Pedal Cycles Offences 1155 1041 -114 -10 ↓
Theft/Taking Of MV Offences 601 633 32 5 →
Hate Crimes
Disability Hate Offences 7 7 0 0 →
Domestic Incidents 3893 3767 -126 -3 ↓
Domestic Offences 1625 1547 -78 -5 ↓
DV VWI Offences 539 485 -54 -10 ↓
Faith Hate Crime Offences 41 36 -5 -12 ↓
Homophobic Offences 81 78 -3 -4 ↓
Racially & Religiously Agg Offences 354 296 -58 -16 ↓
Racist and Religious Incidents 478 424 -54 -11 ↓
Racist and Religious Offences 482 431 -51 -11 ↓
Drug Offences
Drug Offences 1763 1385 -378 -21 ↓
Drug Trafficking Offences 220 183 -37 -17 ↓
Possession Of Drugs Offences 1526 1192 -334 -22 ↓
Other Crime Types
Criminal Damage Offences 1895 1635 -260 -14 ↓
Fraud or Forgery Offences 870 81 -789 -91 ↓
Total Notifiable Offences 28017 24593 -3424 -12 ↓