Strategic Assessment Nicholas Hall Community Safety Data Analyst Community Safety Partnership All statistics contained within this document are provisional and cover the period between (01/04/ /12/2015)

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

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.

CRIME TYPETOTALCHANGEPOSITION ALL CRIME8366Up 2% (+ 163 crimes)3rd/32 BURGLARY1032Down 17% (- 217 crimes)4th/32 -Residential519Down 9% (- 52 crimes)1st/32 -Non-Residential513Down 24% (- 165 crimes)19 th /32 VEHICLE CRIME1123Down 7% (- 91 crimes)6 th /32 -Theft of323Up 20% (+ 53 crimes)8 th /32 -Theft from633Down 19% ( -149 crimes)10 th /32 VIOLENCE2597Up 20% ( crimes)1 st /32 SERIOUS ACQUISITIVE CRIME1587Down 8% (- 136 crimes)4 th /32 Crime Overview (April-December 2015)

All statistics, unless stated are shown for April-December 2015 and compared with the same period in 2014; Burglary All burglary has decreased by 17% ( crimes); Residential burglary has decreased by 9% (- 52 crimes); Non residential burglaries have decreased by 24% (- 165 crimes); Vehicle crime Down 7% (91 crimes) Theft from a vehicle was down by 19% (- 149 crimes); Theft of a vehicle was up by 20% (+ 53 crimes); Violent Crime Up 20% (428 crimes) Reasons for this increase include changes in classification of most serious violence offences and increased confidence in reporting domestic violence. - Crime Details

Crime Update Richmond Town Centre - Remains the borough’s main crime hotspot, accounting for nearly 9% of overall offences, though this proportion has continued to decrease a little in comparison with the last two years. Twickenham Town Centre – Has a smaller concentration of crime, accounting for 4% of the borough’s total offences; – As a proportion of overall crime this has decreased slightly in the past 12 months; The Town Centres remain a big generator for the total notifiable offences in the borough..

Performance Richmond upon Thames is currently the third 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 17.2 crimes per 1,000 population, compared to the next borough (Bexley) which had 18.5 crimes per 1,000); (12 months rolling); Overall, crime in the borough is higher by 163 (+2%) crimes from April- December 2015, compared to the same period last year. Police recorded ASB is down by 4% (135 calls) Council recorded ASB is down by 10% (466 calls)

Hate Crime There were 136 Police recorded hate crime incidents during 2015, which is a increase of 37 crimes on ; 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; 121 were racial offences,15 were homophobic offences and there were no disability hate crimes;

Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse crime levels in Richmond have risen by 23%. From April- December 2015, there were 798 incidents compared to 649 for the previous period); This rise has been seen across London and is partly due to the changes in classification of most serious violent crime and increased confidence in reporting domestic violence; There have been 230 high risk Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference cases during ; this is a 15% (+31) rise in cases from last year; Repeat cases have risen by 2% during ;

Integrated Offender Management Year (Previous 12 months rate: 66%) Re-offend rate% Re-Offend Number Max cohort number IOM Year One31%1135 IOM year Two56%1425 IOM Year Three33%927 IOM Year Four (Sept15- Dec15) 44%1432 Richmond Integrated Offender Management 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. Year four has only been underway since September

Road Safety Traffic data has been supplied by the Environment department of Richmond Council with data available from the period Jan to July The data shows casualties in the borough are down by 28%, 257 casualties from Jan to July 2015, compared to 359 (Jan-July 2014) There were 3 fatalities from Jan to July 2015, compared to 8 in the previous period. The number of people being killed or seriously injured has fallen by 38% compared to Jan-July 2014.

Child Sexual Exploitation Between April and December 2015 there were 28 cases of alleged CSE investigated and classified, of these 28, five are currently open, however only two of these cases are being investigated by Richmond borough In there were 4.3 cases discussed at MACSE per month, this has fallen to just 3 cases per month in % of alleged victims were female and three quarters were recorded as White British.53% of victims were aged between 15-17, 40% were aged 14 and under. The youngest victim of alleged CSE was % of cases discussed involved situations such as improper relations with older men, periods of going missing overnight and sharing images.

Suggested Priorities for Anti-social behaviour (ASB); Town centre crime and night time economy; Domestic abuse; Re-offending including drugs misuse; Burglary; Motor vehicle crime and theft of pedal cycle