Violent and acquisitive crime

We said we would

• Work in partnership and be innovative in our approach to tackling crime, targeting hotspots and known offenders.
• Adopt a collaborative approach to problem solving to maintain the City of London as a low crime, safe area.
• Tackle alcohol-related crime through a joined up, partnership approach.
• Mount specific, targeted operations to address emerging challenges and provide quality-focused investigations, with high quality evidence supporting successful prosecutions.
• Ensure victims can easily report crime and thereafter, receive a professional response.
• Maintain our focus on incidents of domestic abuse and child protection, which remains an integral part of our victim care strategy.
• Work with our residents, businesses and workers to encourage them to take an active role in crime prevention.
• Continue to identify and target persistent offenders to reduce re-offending.

We have

• Introduced a new patrol strategy that targets hotspots and focuses resources where they are most needed.
• Run specific operations targeting different types of offending.
• Worked closely with partners and utilised problem solving techniques to impact positively on volume offending, including acquisitive and alcohol-related crime.
• Taken a full role in our local Safer City Partnership.
• Launched an online facility for people to report and track progress on their crime.
• Worked with the Metropolitan Police Service to implement an improved process for monitoring and addressing persistent or prolific offenders across London.

• People can report and track their crime more easily.
• Victim based violent crime showed a 12% increase (922 recorded in 2016/17, 906 recorded in 2015/16), only 7 forces had a lower increase. The national average increase was 20%, with 10 forces recording increases of between 30% and 50%.
• Victim based acquisitive crime showed a 6.6% increase (7th lowest increase in the country, 3545 recorded in 2016/17, 3194 record in 2015/16). The national average increase was 9%, with 18 forces recording increases between 10% and 23%.80.2% of victims of crime satisfied with the service provided.
• 80.2% of victims of crime satisfied with the service provided.