Agenda and minutes

Agreed as accurate records.

To confirm the items of business marked Part I will be considered in public and that the items marked Part II will be considered in private.

It was agreed that all items of business would be considered in public.

Police Tasking Team

Inspector Kevan Baylie attended the meeting and provided Members with details of the role of the Police Tasking Team, which was the Team of Police Officers which the London Borough of Hillingdon funded.

• The Police Tasking Team was based in Hayes and their first priority was to the local authority.
• Most of the Team’s work was on Anti-Social Behaviour and there was an excellent working relationship with the Council’s Community Safety and Anti-Social Behaviour Investigations Service Team.

·           In relation to Anti-Social Behaviour, Police work involved research, preparation and applying for and presenting Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) and Criminal Ant-Social Behaviour Orders at Court.

·           Work also took place on Acceptable Behaviour Contracts. These were early intervention measures and a breach of one of these was used as evidence to support an application for an ASBO.

·           The setting up of Dispersal Zones in the Borough.

·           In partnership with Safer London and the Business Intelligence Unit, work took place in the management of information on gangs.

·           Information sharing took place with the local authority and Registered Social Landlords as the Team was the single point of contact.

·           The Police Tasking Team would not be affected by the new Local Policing Model which was to be introduced later this year.

·           Daily intelligence meetings took place where information was shared between the Council and the Team. In addition monthly meetings took place between the Police and the Anti-Social Behaviour Investigation Team (ASBIT).

·           Work took place with ASBIT with troubled families in terms of visits, warrants and liaison with the Safer Neighbourhood Teams.

·           The joint patrols which took place with the Police and Council officers worked very well with out reach workers sometimes involved.

·           Various examples of police operations were provided which involved operations on anti-social behaviour, drugs, street drinking, noise and these were successful in terms of prevention and reduction of crime.

Speed Guns

The Committee was provided with the following information:-

• The Police had currently three speed guns which had been provided by the Council. All three of the speed guns had been recently calibrated.
• There were currently 65 police officers who had been trained to use the equipment.
• There was a regular training programme which ensured the required officers were trained.
• Use of the Speed Guns had been sparse this last year which had been due to the abstractions from the SNT caused by a management decision to bolster the response teams to enable compliance around the “I” and “S” grade calls.
• The MOPAC had also been charged with reducing priority crimes such as domestic burglary and street robbery which had impacted on the use of the Speed Guns.
• Reference was made to the huge impact which the London Olympics had had on local policing, which had been the main priority for the Metropolitan Police during the last summer.
• Reference was made to the positive impact which the new local policing model would have on local policing, with more officers out on the streets.
• Speed guns were deployed at the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

Discussion took place on possible review topics for this municipal year.

Members were informed that a single meeting review could be on looking at changing Council employees’ Annual Leave holiday year to a personalised holiday system, which would mean that instead of all employees having the same holiday year, that each would have a unique year based on their start date with the Council. 

Members were asked to email suggestions on possible review topics to the Democratic Services Manager and a report on suitable topics be submitted to the next meeting of the Committee for discussion.

RESOLVED - 

1.      That the report be noted.

Noted.

Noted. Members asked that the Committee’s support be noted in the Cabinet report for 20 June 2013 on the Extension of the agreement with the Metropolitan Police Service to fund 11 police officers.