Agenda item

Report of the Manager of Community Safety Team – Town Clerk’s.

The Committee received the tabled monthly crime statistics and noted the following:

• Sexual offences had increased, as a resulting of growing awareness and confidence in reporting. 

• The incidence of crime in the City was generally very low and there had only been 1 repeat offence at a licenced premise. There were no ‘problem’ licenced premises and Licensing Sub Committee sanctions were very successful. 

• There would be more police presence over the Christmas period and more plain clothes officers within venues.  The Community Safety Team were working on ‘sizing’ the nigh-time economy in order to provide an approximate capacity of existing venues. 

• Licenced premises generally were busiest on Thursdays and Fridays and there had been increased footfall over the past 18 months, possibly due to more affluence at the end of the recession.

• Once fully developed, restorative justice should result in less perpetrators in custody and a more effective way of managing street crime and certain individuals, who are known to the Police.

• More work was required on cyber fraud and, from next month, more data would be available on Operation Broadway. 

• The Lord Mayor’s Show had progressed well, despite the poor weather and without incident.

• Knife crime and gangs were generally not an issue in the City.  Members noted there had been some venues affected about 18 months ago but this had since reduced considerably.

• As the Prevent Strategy was embedded, Members asked for regular updates to the Committee.  The Community Safety Manager agreed to bring a report to the next meeting, redacted for publication.