Community Safety in London
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London Crime &Disorder Reduction
A
consistent approach to crime and disorder prevention and community safety is an
ideal - a clear understanding of what the problems are, the best ways of
tackling them, adequate resources to do the job and effective programme
delivery.
This is not to say that
one size fits all; as each area has
its specific needs but these can be catered for within a framework of systematic
programme development based on good practice .
Details of crime
prevention work in London can be found on the web pages of the individual London Boroughs. Each of these boroughs is undertaking a
range of activities to reduce crime and disorder in their
municipality.
Racism in Policing
The allegations of police officer racism are nothing new. To challenge that racism, there has been a consistent low level of tolerance of racial abuse within the UK police service.
But that has not stopped racist conduct at an individual (and possibly collective) level. Moves by successive Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police – for instance - to ‘gently’ eradicate racism in the police service just seem to have driven it underground.
For those on the inside, Sir Paul Stephenson’s 2009 statement that the MPS was not institutionally racist, and that his force had made so much progress the label was no longer useful, demonstrated his lack of understanding of the problem.
Stevenson was convinced that too much time was being spent on an old tiresome issue and that this was preventing the police from doing their real work.
Racism in Policing
The allegations of police officer racism are nothing new. To challenge that racism, there has been a consistent low level of tolerance of racial abuse within the UK police service.
But that has not stopped racist conduct at an individual (and possibly collective) level. Moves by successive Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police – for instance - to ‘gently’ eradicate racism in the police service just seem to have driven it underground.
For those on the inside, Sir Paul Stephenson’s 2009 statement that the MPS was not institutionally racist, and that his force had made so much progress the label was no longer useful, demonstrated his lack of understanding of the problem.
Stevenson was convinced that too much time was being spent on an old tiresome issue and that this was preventing the police from doing their real work.
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
In London
the new powers of a Police and Crime Commissioner go to the elected mayor.
The Metropolitan Police have become directly accountable to the mayor,
and the mayor is directly accountable to the people of London (other
than those living in the city of London).
The Home Office stated in its February 2012 press release that "Giving Londoners a voice over policing has been
a popular change in the capital, and enhancing the responsibility of
the mayor is a further step in the right direction. It gives Londoners a
stronger say over how their streets are policed." more >
Borough Based Community Safety and Crime Reduction
Each of the 33 London municipalities provides
community
safety services. However, there is not a standard approach to this work; each
one providing services in different ways in partnership with their borough based
police service.
To an extent this differential approach is intentional – as the municipality based partnerships have identified to tackle different crime and disorder reduction priorities and have used whatever resources - short, medium or long term that have come to hand more
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