Police and Crime Plan by Emily Spurell (2021-2025) Flashcards
Police and Crime Plan by Emily Spurell (2021-2025)
When was Merseyside Police founded?
1974, serving a population of around 1.5 million people
Merseyside Police and Crime Plan was founded by who, in what year?
Emily Spurrell, the commissioner, in October 2021
What years are the Merseyside Police and Crime Plan focused on?
2021-2025
What are the 3 main priority areas of the Merseyside Police and Crime Plan?
Pillar 1. Fighting Crime; Proactive Policing
Pillar 2. Supporting Victims; Safer Communities
Pillar 3. Driving Change; Prevent Offending
Pillar 1: Ethos of neighbourhood policing
Merseyside Police was one of the first policing areas
in the country to implement what was then the ethos
of neighbourhood policing, building on this further by ensuring locals can assist local policing, breaking down the barriers between the public and the police
Pillar 1: How to deliver an accessible service
- Reducing ‘acquisitive crime’
Acquisitive crime refers to those offences where the
perpetrator gains material goods from their crimes –
burglary, robbery and theft - By ensuring its stations and
building (or ‘estate’), as well as its vehicles, are fit to
serve you and fight crime, now and in the future - Improving road safety, e.g. by working alongside the Liverpool City Region partners, to adopt the Vision Zero
approach, which views human life and health as paramount to all else and should be the first and foremost consideration
when designing a road network
Key facts: how many PCSOS and police officers
3,974 police officers and PCSOS
Key facts: how many police staff
2,487 police staff
Key facts: how many police volunteers
177 police volunteers
Key facts: how many special constables
160 Special Constables
Key facts: Information from time of pandemic, how many calls a day
1,795 calls a day*
Key facts: Information from time of pandemic, how many incidents per day, 182 of which were emergencies
1,005 incidents per day 182 of which
are emergencies*
Key facts: Information from time of pandemic, how many arrests per day
69 arrests per day*
Key facts: Information from time of pandemic, how many requests via police website
100 requests via the police website*
Pillar 1: What they want to improve and work on:
Serious violence and knife crime
Child exploitation and County Lines
Retail and business crime
Cyber crime and fraud
Responding to national and regional threats:
These are:
1. Terrorism;
2. SOC (including both cyber-dependent and
cyber-enabled crime plus online child sexual
exploitation);
3. A national cyber security incident;
4. Threats to public order or public safety that
cannot be managed by a single police force
acting alone;
5. Civil emergencies that require an aggregated
response across police service boundaries;
6. Child sex abuse is a threat of national importance
that requires a cohesive and consistent national
effort to ensure police and partners can
safeguard children from harm
Pillar 2: Supporting victims stats
98.9% People felt giving victims the best possible care should be
a priority
96.9% People felt ending Violence against Women and Girls should
be a priority
96.9% People felt ending Violence against Women and Girls should
be a priority
90.9% People felt stopping Modern Slavery should be a priority
Pillar 2: SUPPORTING VICTIMS: Violence against women and girls, what Emily Spurrell wants to be done
Her aim is to ensure that Violence Against Women
and Girls (VAWG) is not tolerated within Merseyside
communities and we make a difference for women
across our region.
A crucial part of this work will be building a greater
understanding of the public sexual harassment and
misogyny which women face each and every day and
taking steps to tackle it.
Already carried out an extensive consultation
seeking the views of women about their feelings of
safety. More than 1,500 women replied, providing
more than 26,000 answers. These are currently
being analysed and will help to inform this work going
forward.
Pillar 2: SUPPORTING VICTIMS, goals
Set up a Victims’ Panel to ensure we listen
to the voices of victims and survivors, take their feedback on board and put them at the heart of our system.
Lobby Government to include domestic abuse within its definition of serious violence and that public sexual harassment is made a criminal offence.
Carry out a full review of Victim Care Merseyside to ensure victims are able to access support services as easily as possible and that the support they receive is of the highest quality.
Pillar 2: Safer Communities, Anti-Social Behaviour
ASB is often wrongly viewed as ‘low-level’, but for victims who are
repeatedly and persistently targeted it can have a
hugely damaging effect, leaving people too scared to
leave their front door and even afraid while they are
inside their own home. It causes fear, stress, anxiety,
depression.
Merseyside continue to expand their knowledge
and understanding of the factors that cause ASB.
A collaborative and supportive approach with partner
agencies is required to reduce repeat victimisation,
protect and support victims, and disrupt and
prosecute offenders.
Pillar 2: Safer Communities, Nuisance Bikes and Scooters
Major concern, noisy, intimating and dangerous
Their use has already been reduced but continue to reduce this more
Pillar 2: Safer Communities, Modern Slavery
Abolished over 200 years ago but still happening in Merseyside, Merseyside Police employs National Modern Slavery
trainers that run operations with partner agencies
and first responders
Pillar 2: Safer Communities, Community engagement
Merseyside Police wants more members of the public are involved in the day-today policing process through its Citizens in Policing
programme. This includes public-spirited individuals
volunteering to be Special Constables, cadetsand safer schools partnership officers.
There are
also more than 100 volunteers who perform roles supporting departments across the workforce.
More than 320 children are also now engaged in
Merseyside Police’s Mini Police scheme which aims to
get primary school children, aged nine to 11, engaged
with the police and their communities through
voluntary activities.
Pillar 3: Driving change, stats
97% People felt
preventing young
people from being
drawn into crime should
be a priority
96.5% People felt we
should prioritise crime
prevention initiatives
94.3% People felt
reducing the impact of
drugs and alcohol
91.6% People felt there
should a focus on
mental health
Pillar 3: Driving change, Early Intervention and Prevention
By intervening early and tackling the underlying
factors that can drive people into criminality, we can
forge stronger, safer communities.
Doing this by: Part of this work will be supporting the efforts
of Merseyside’s Violence Reduction Partnership
(MVRP), Merseyside Police’s school liaison officers
and many of our fantastic community and voluntary
organisations
