Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner.

The Committee received a report of the Commissioner on the Force’s Performance against the Government’s National Priorities for Policing, 4^th Quarter Statement end of March 2022. The Chair highlighted that the City of London Police were now ranked fortieth out of all forces in terms of all crime representing a twenty five percent increase noting that this was after spending eighteen months ranked first.

Responding to a query from a Member of the Committee Officers noted that the decrease in domestic crime in the City of London was likely due to a decreased number of visitors to the City, but that this would be confirmed.

The Chair of the Police Authority Board observed that the Quarterly Statement presented was technical in nature and suggested that a more public facing document presenting this information be developed as part of a larger review of how information regarding the City of London Police is presented. The Chair observed that communication and engagement had regularly been raised as an issue by the Police Authority Board whilst he had served on the Board.

A Committee member noted it was important to reassess reporting to reconsider what the classification of good looks like in this context.

The Committee the requested that further information on the actions taken to promote successes be included in reports of this kind. It was confirmed that there were a number of plans in place to progress cyber-crime policing, both nationally and locally, noting that traditionally the City of London Police had not been good at promoting successes in policing which would be reassessed.

RESOLVED- That the report be noted.