Thursday, January 31, 2008
LAMBETH CRIME AND POLICING
CURRENT POLICING ISSUES IN LAMBETH
Lambeth Community-Police Consultative Group meeting to be held at:
EMAIL below or hernehillforum@btinternet.com for meeting papers
6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 February 2008 at St Leonard's Church, Streatham SW16 (see map attached to agenda)
The papers include:
> Agenda 5 February 2008
> Minutes of the meeting 8 January 2008
> Lambeth Police Presentation January 2008
(February Presentation will be given at the meeting)
> Lambeth Police Monthly Report February 2008
> Lambeth CPCG Newsletter Winter Edition 2008
> Lambeth CPCG Newsletter Winter Edition 2008
This is the time of year when the Safer Lambeth Partnership is setting its priorities for the coming year. In an allied process, the Borough Commander is compiling her Police Plan. This collective endeavour should result in clear priorities and focused resources towards a safer Lambeth in 2008/9. How that bureaucratic process works exactly and how we, as a community, get to influence it, will be explained by the boroughs Community Safety Team and the Borough Commander on 5th February.
One thing is already clear: that this borough has an unacceptably high level of serious violent crime that particularly damages our young people, as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Added to which, the high level of hidden criminal violence such as rape and domestic violence take their toll and all are, in my view, inter-related.
Lambeth's CPCG has never ducked difficult issues, so we make no apologies for focusing in our next two meetings on those aspects of violent crime. This month we will begin to look at the boroughs statistics on rape and why we appear to have such a high level of this nastiest of crimes. We will also learn from Councillor Lorna Campbell what progress the Executive Commission on Guns, Gangs and Knives is making. We will follow that in March with a presentation from those who work with the victims of domestic violence and will also be presenting our own research report on the policing of domestic violence in Lambeth. Not perhaps the jolliest way to inaugerate Womens Day but perhaps the single most significant factor in the profile of young offenders.
In accordance wth our pledge to move the venue of our meetings around the borough, we will be in St. Leonards Church for our meeting on 5th February and back in Lambeth Town Hall for March 4th. Although we have themed meetings which we plan in advance we will always find room for you to add to the agenda, but its helpful if you let me know in advance if it is likely to take up significant time.
Look forward to seeing you,
Yours sincerely,
Anna Tapsell
Chairperson, Lambeth CPCG
CPCG for Lambeth -Your Shout in local policing
020 7733 0878
www.lambethcpcg.org.uk for details of future events and information resources.
CPCG for Lambeth is funded by the Metropolitan Police Authority (www.mpa.gov.uk)
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