Post on 01-Aug-2018
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police supportrural communities
• We recognise the valuable contribution of rural communities.
• We are determined to work in partnership with rural communities
to reduce the harm caused to them by crime.
• This strategy sets out the framework to achieve this.
Our vision:
Protecting people from harm.
Our values:
We will;
• Take pride in our professionalism and standards of behaviour.
• Listen and engage.
• Use professional judgement and be courageous in making decisions.
• Seek out better ways of working.
• Lead with confidence and do the right thing.
• Work in partnership to provide the best service we can.
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Vision
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police
Rural Crime Strategy
Our aim:
The aim of this strategy is to deliver the police contribution towards the rural
crime objectives in both the Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner and
West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner’s Policing Plans by:
Reducing the harm caused by rural crime with a focus on community
engagement, crime prevention and effective targeting of those who cause harm.
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Rural Crime Strategy
Guiding Principles
• Definition of Harm; Harm is defined in policing terms as any rural crime which
results in death, injury, loss or fear/distress.
• We will use the proposed national Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
definition of rural crime in assessing and tackling the issue.*
• We will consider appropriate activity across:
• farming, agriculture and equine;
• tourism;
• rural community crime;
• wildlife and environmental;
• Organised Crime Groups (OCGs);
• heritage;
• angling;
• poaching.
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Key Themes
1 Reduce harm.
2 Effective community engagement.
3 Target those who cause harm.
* see back page
Reduction of Harm
• Use of appropriate crime reduction technology.
• Use of principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
• Intelligence led policing activity.
Effective Community Engagement
• Support effective watch schemes to a common standard, supported
by a common structure and technology.
• Ensuring special constables and volunteers support this strategy.
• Deliver strong neighbourhood policing to all rural communities.
• Engage fully with National Farmers Union (NFU), Country Land & Business
Association (CLA), Angling Trust, countryside and wildlife organisations.
• Work with Community Safety Partnerships to engage rural communities and
promote crime reduction.
Targeting those who Cause Harm
• Appropriate use of restorative justice.
• Effective use of Integrated Offender Management (IOM) principles in relation
to rural crime.
• Proactive policing activity in respect of Organised Crime Groups.
How will we achieve this?
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police are delivering a broad tactical plan
that covers a wide range of activities aimed at tackling the impact of rural
crime on individuals and communities, reducing the harm caused by rural
crime and making communities feel safer.
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police use detailed performance data in
order to continually assess our progress. Every element of the plan has a
named owner. These owners will be responsible for coordinating and
monitoring progress towards the plan and making key decisions around
operational activity associated with the Rural Crime Strategy.
We will have a clear and effective
plan for dealing with all aspects of
rural crime which will:
Assess all crimes and incidents to identify
whether it is rural crime.
Target high harm causers.
Apply the principles of Integrated Offender
Management (IOM) approach to rural crime
offenders.
Work with partners and other agencies to
prevent and reduce rural crime.
Promote and support watch schemes.
Develop a partnership approach to governance
and oversight.
How will we achieve this?
Reduction
of Harm
Effective
Community
Engagement
Target Those
Who Cause
Harm
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Any crime or anti social behaviour that takes place in a rural location* or is
identified as such by the victim.
* Rural locations are defined using the DEFRA/ONS 2004 output areas (excluding market towns),
but including hamlet, isolated dwelling and village output areas.
Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Success Stories
Horse Watch is a positive example of a successful rural watchscheme.
It employs all the traditional methods common to watch schemes,but also embraces new technologies and communications,
including SmartWater and Twitter. It will also deliver crimeawareness and prevention events for farmers, horse ownersand rural business.
Horse Watch have been awarded the NFU Mutual Insurance,National Country Crime Fighters Award - Best CommunityScheme 2013.
In recent years, fishery owners andangling clubs have noticed asubstantial increase in loss of theirfish stocks.
It became apparent that some EasternEuropean anglers were not returningtheir catch to the water,but rather, taking it awayto eat.
Fishery Watch wasestablished and membersnow have club rules andfishing law displayed inseveral Eastern Europeanlanguages, which has ledto an immediate drop inthe loss of fish stock andan improvement in relations betweendifferent cultures.
Not only has Fishery Watch
led to better community
relations and reductions in
stock loss. It has expanded
into a full cross border watch
scheme, which allows
members to pass community
alert messages and
suspicious activity.
An example of Horse
Watch in action, was
when they passed details
of a suspicious vehicle to
the police.
The police stopped the
vehicle and discovered
that it was laden with
tack. On further
investigation, due to the
tack having been
postcode marked through
the Horse Watch scheme,
it was found to have been
stolen from a burglary the
previous evening.
On this occasion the work
of Horse Watch resulted
in offenders being
brought to justice and
stolen property re-united
with its proper owner.