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Community Engagement: The Police PerspectiveChief Constable Simon ColeACPO lead for Local Policing and Partnerships Business Area

ACPO lead for Mental Health and Disability Portfolio

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•Sir Geoffrey Dear

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The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.

Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.

The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.

Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.

Robert Peel

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Confidence (BCS)

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79% of respondents said they trusted the police very or fairly stronglyThe Guardian 24th September 2012

Total of 3,976,312 recorded crimes for the year ending March 2012 was - a year-on-year fall of 4.2%

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Transparency

Openness = LEGITIMACYCommunication

Accountability

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‘If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got’

Henry Ford

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Physical presence and accessibility

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Neighbourhood Policing-Engagement

There are over 3,600 Neighbourhood Police Teams nationally •Street Briefings•Joint Action Groups•Information Collation and Sharing•Partnerships•Problem Solving•Local Surveys

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Dutch Policing

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Special Constables

20,300 Special Constables nationally give over 5,000,000 hours nationally

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10,000 Police Volunteers give 800,000 hours nationally.

Volunteers

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Neighbourhood Watch

•Over 158,000 Neighbourhood Watch schemes nationally include:

•Street watch/Street pastors•Home Watch•Business Watch •Farm Watch •Shop Watch •Faith Watch •Forecourt Watch •School Watch •Allotment Watch•Land Watch •Horse Watch

All to encourage neighbourliness and closer communities

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Transparency

‘…..transparency within British policing is a ‘step change’ above anywhere else in the western world and indeed further afield, we should be quite proud of that’.

Sir Hugh Orde

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Police TransparencyOp Peninsula

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Police Transparency

•Silver Advisory Group created which included community leaders, faith leaders, council representatives and independent advisors.•Local Radio invited in to Silver Control•Community Mediators•Lay Visitors in custody•Dip sampling of complaints•Wider community consulted and information mapped•Independent Observers accompanied officers at demonstrations made up of PA members, Community and Faith leaders, local councillors

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‘Familiarity Breeds Consent……’

‘Social Media isn’t good, or bad. It just is. It can help rioters to organise, and it can help the police connect with communities. It isn’t the answer to improving police-community relations, nor the mechanism by which the police should engage with the public. It is, however, an effective new avenue to reach people who want to understand, and engage with, policing in their areas’

Kate Lloyd, Delivery Analyst, NPIA

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Simon Cole (@CCLeicsPolice)06/10/2012 15:32Ideas please........examples of innovative ways of connecting police and public?

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Simon Cole (@CCLeicsPolice)06/10/2012 15:32Ideas please........examples of innovative ways of connecting police and public?

Jane Fleming (@fleming77)07/10/2012 19:52@CCLeicsPolice ‘try Storify’

David Watts (@DavidWatts12)07/10/2012 19:55@CCLeicsPolice…’relocate the police station into the council offices along with the CAB’

‘partnerships with youth, sports, other social groups & key individuals to get messages out to new audience i.e …blogs, Facebook, twitter….needs to be focused, appropriate, necessary and interesting…good way to reach those we have found hard to get previously’

the cabbie (@RandomCabs)07/10/2012 20:44@CCLeicsPolice ‘Maybe a taxi watch scheme-we see all’

Oakham Police (@OakhamPolice)06/10/2012 21:54@CCLeicsPolice #Surrey #police use a mobile app which connects public with #safer neighbourhood

teams great idea.

Constable Chaos (@ConstableChaos)06/10/2012 15:55@CCLeicsPolice I'll just say one hashtag #CoverForGMP

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Victoria Bleazard (@VictoriBleazard)06/10/2012 15:50@CCLeicsPolice W Mids Police asked @Rethink_ for views of ppl w MI 2yrs ago & residents I met v impressed w police for going to this effort

Lena Samuels (@lenasamuels)06/10/2012 15:41@CCLeicsPolice community focus groups, online blogs, ambassadors, offer day in life of opportunities, get media students to film pod casts..

Zoe Pursey (@z_pursey)06/10/2012 16:12@CCLeicsPolice Use of phone app

Leics NHW (@leicsnhw)07/10/2012 21:19@CCLeicsPolice @leicsnhw using the amazing scheme tools which NHW have access to via Neighbourhood Alert

St Matthews police (@LPStMatthews)06/10/2012 23:50@CCLeicsPolice what about bobby bingo we ran on the St matthews thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Beat-bobby-bin…

joarundale (@diversitysgt)06/10/2012 16:10@CCLeicsPolice IAG & local groups connect us on strategic and local issues representatives from wide range/charities/3rd sector

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Public support with more than 48,800 messages of condolence on website.

Thousands of police and public line the street…standing shoulder to shoulder

PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone

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New Governance/New Opportunities

•Public Debate on Policing•Appointing Chief Constables-Role of Public•Enhanced focus on what local people want•One to one professional relationship•Better cross agency join up on key issues: -Drink -Drugs -Mental Health -Offender Management -Criminal Justice•Advocacy

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‘The fact that the British Police are answerable to the law, that we act on behalf of the community and not under the mantle of Government, makes us the least powerful, the most accountable and therefore the most acceptable police service in the world’ Sir Robert Mark