Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner of Police.

The Committee received a report of the Commissioner detailing issues raised by the community and the police response to those issues since the last report presented in January 2016.

The Committee was advised that the principal focus of the Communities Teams had been, and remained, to support the Force-wide counter-terrorism priority, and  Communities officers continued to participate in Project Servator deployments aimed at deterring and disrupting potential terrorist activity. Also following the recent events in Paris and Brussels, more officers had been deployed to the City’s residential and business communities to provide reassurance and to increase awareness.

In response to a question concerning approaches to community engagement and community messaging the Commissioner advised that work was currently being undertaken to review and improve the communications strategy in general, particularly in relation to the use and effectiveness of community messaging and social media such as Twitter and that this would be reported to a future meeting.

The Commissioner also reported that they would need to consider what community issues actually were and the best way to communicate with the community.

RESOLVED  - That the report be noted.