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/ /12/2014)

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 last 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.

Data Limitations For the purposes of analytical continuity, all performance comparisons in the assessment are taken from the Iquanta website and are based on yearly performance; To improve the information in the Assessment, additional background profiles have been commissioned looking at domestic violence, hate crime, child sexual, exploitation, re-offending and ASB to improve the information; Partner data is an essential part of the collection and collation process; These profiles will be continually updated to provide a picture of these crime types in the borough and will be used to inform the current and future strategic intelligence assessments; The profiles will be available in April.

Crime Overview CRIME TYPETOTALCHANGEPOSITION ALL CRIME8205Up 2% (+ 197 crimes)4 th /32 BURGLARY1251Down 5% (- 64 crimes)19 th /32 -Residential575Down 5% (- 30 crimes)4th/32 -Non-residential676Down 5% (- 34 crimes)29 th /32 VEHICLE CRIME1214Up 5% (+ 55 crimes)9 th /32 -Theft of270Up 19% (+ 44 crimes)8 th /32 -Theft from782Down 9% ( - 80 crimes)10 th /32 VIOLENCE1918Up 33% ( crimes)1 st /32 SERIOUS ACQUISITIVE CRIME782Down 9% (- 80 crimes)10 th /32 All data based on iQuanta (1 April – 31 December 2014) Home Office data, not MOPAC 7

All statistics, unless stated are shown for April-December 2014 and compared with the same period in 2013; Burglary - All burglary has decreased by 5% ( - 64 crimes); - Residential burglary has decreased by 5% (- 30 crimes); - Non residential burglaries have decreased by 5% (- 34 crimes); - Despite a decrease in non residential burglaries we are still 29 th in London; Vehicle crime - Up 5% (55 crimes); - Theft from a vehicle was down by 9% (- 80 crimes), - Theft of a vehicle was up by 19% (+ 44 crimes); - Keyless crime has directly effected theft of vehicle figures. Crime Update

Violence - Including domestic violence and aggravated robbery; - All violent offences have increased by 33% (+ 476 crimes); - The proportion of serious violent domestic offences have remained level at 23% of all notifiable domestic violence crime; -The rise in violent crime figures is related to changes in the recording for grievous bodily harm offences; - Richmond is still the safest Borough in London for violent crime; Anti-social behaviour - Police recorded ASB has fallen by 25% between April-December 2014(-1047 calls); - The main types of council recorded ASB were fly-tipping (29%) and noise (23%) (April-December 2014) - It remains a police and partnership priority and a key factor regarding quality of life.

Crime Update Richmond Town Centre - Remains the borough’s main crime hotspot, accounting for nearly 9% of overall offences, though this proportion has decreased 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 and offence levels have remained stable in the latest quarter compared with the previous three months; The Town centres remain a big generator for the total notifiable offences in the borough..

Performance Richmond upon Thames is currently the fourth safest borough in London for overall crime. The safest borough is Harrow. 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 10.4 crimes per 1,000 population, compared to the next borough (Kingston) which had 11.9 crimes per 1,000); (12 months rolling); Overall, crime in the borough is higher by 197 (+2%) crimes from April- December 2014, compared to April-December 2013.

Anti-Social Behaviour Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is defined as ‘behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator’; Police and Council record different kinds of ASB; From April-December 2014 Police recorded ASB decreased by 25% (-1047 calls) compared to the previous year; 45% (1401) of Police recorded ASB was in relation to ‘rowdy & inconsiderate behaviour’; Over the last two years, for LA recorded ASB, graffiti and noise percentages have remained stationary, while litter has seen a 1% reduction; The public satisfaction with how partner agencies are dealing with crime and ASB stands at 72%, a 5% increase on , which meets the target set.

Hate Crime There were 120 Police recorded hate crime incidents during 2014, which is a increase of 47 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; 110 were racial offences,10 were homophobic offences and there were no disability hate crimes; Richmond Council received one hate crime report during 2014; The Fairness for All Survey in April 2014, conducted by Richmond Mobility Forum and Action Group (service users) revealed that 14% of respondents felt they had been a victim of disability hate crime.

Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse crime levels in Richmond have risen by 26%. From April- December 2014, there were 641 incidents compared to 506 for the previous period); This rise has been seen across London and is partly due to the changes in recording of violent crime; There have been 155 high risk Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference cases during ; this is a 3% (- 6) reduction in cases from last year; Repeat cases have risen by 55% (34 cases) during ; Satisfaction with the Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy Service: % customers are satisfied with IDVA service (On Target); - 96% customers saw a reduction in the severity of offences (On Target); % customers feel safer after the intervention of the IDVA service.

Offender Management Drug testing on arrest is now in its third year. There were 749 tests during April-December 2014, with 46% positive (344 tests). These figures are an 8% rise on the previous year, where 38% tested positive; The Integrated Offender Management Scheme has been running since September 2012: – the baseline re-offending rate was 66%; – the re-offending rate for the second year of IOM (September 2013-August 2014) was 56%.

Road Safety This is the first year the data has been included in the assessment. The inclusion is based on resident concern expressed on the previous assessment; 408 road incidents recorded (three fatal) from January-September 2014 (this is a rise of 20% on the same period in 2013); 130 incidents involving cyclists (one fatal) from January-September 2014 (this is a rise of 27% on the same period in 2013); 2152 speeding incidents recorded by the police, a rise of 40% on April-December 2014.

Child Sexual Exploitation 42 incidents recorded by Achieving For Children between January to September 2014, this is the first year data has been available for the Strategic Intelligence Assessment. Improvement in this dataset will form part of the annual refresh of AfC performance data. 25 incidents recorded by Met Police between January to August 2014; Main types of exploitation were “improper relationships", "exchange of illegal substances for sex” and “internet grooming/improper relationships with older men”.

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 (including cycling on pavements and through red lights); Child sexual exploitation data improvement.