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NEWS
JULY 2008
Another busy month has gone by with visits to Merseyside, Hampshire and West Mercia. In addition Ian Crichlow from the National Community Tension Team and I have run four more Intelligence and Community Engagement (ICE) workshops in Thames Valley and Greater Manchester. Special thanks go to Lisa Stanhope, Michelle Barlow and Dean Stott for their support during the visits. In addition the police staff in both forces were very professional and a pleasure to work with. Further plans for the roll out of ICE are being decided at the moment but in the interim both Ian and I continue to offer support to forces around engagement, community intelligence and the Prevent delivery plan.
The Prevent Violent Extremism Strategy – a guide to local partners in England has been launched. It includes guidance around the role of neighbourhood policing teams and the national Indicator (NI 35) which will assist in setting the performance framework for police and partners in this area. The relevant documents can be accessed here.
The government have just published a report on a consultation process “Engaging Communities in Fighting Crime” also known as the Casey Review, it includes 32 recommendations on issues including neighbourhood policing teams, community support officer’s powers, the Partners and Communities Together process and officer abstractions. The full report and summary report can be accessed here. In addition there is a summary of public responses to the consultation, so if you are interested in the responses to the question “What kind of things people should expect from a first-rate local police service?” Access the report here.
Cumbria Police are once again demonstrating their commitment to excellence – three case studies around addressing anti social behaviour and a performance framework for community engagement can be accessed in the document library here. One of the case studies won the North West Regional award for problem solving, so congratulations to PS Richard Farnworth and colleagues.
Two more neighbourhood policing teams have entered the world of social networking – both Whitby and Barnsley in North and South Yorkshire have sites on Facebook. If you are aware of anything similar or further examples of innovation or good practice; let me know.
Nick Keane
Nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk
JUNE 2008
As I mentioned in last weeks update, the issue of new technology continues to be of interest in neighbourhood policing. A prominent feature of new information technology is that enables greater participation by people and a faster flow of views, opinions and information. The fact that anyone with internet access can contribute their views carries a number of risks and benefits, on 7th July 2005 over 2,500 people updated the open source Wikipedia following the events of that day. Some forces have established a presence on social networking sites, amongst them Suffolk Police are on the Bebo site and Greater Manchester Police are on the Facebook site. Both these moves are being followed by people in the UK and around the world. In Suffolk the Police have used SMS technology to increase their contact with hearing and visually impaired people. Read more about this here. In addition Cambridgeshire are using Bluetooth to contact people via their mobile phones, further details are in the innovations section of the case studies and accessible here.
Abstractions from neighbourhoods feature in the recent additions to the document library with contributions from Dyfed-Powis Police who have submitted their abstraction policy and from Derbyshire Police who have submitted a PowerPoint on their current abstraction policy. Both are available here.
Dorset Police have a good case study highlighting the work by P.C. Andy Watkins looking at young people being out late in the neighbourhood, he’s launched a Parents Support Pledge. Andy was out on patrol late one evening when he met a young resident who his parent’s thought were at a friends for a sleepover, Andy has introduced a contact scheme where parents can let him know the times their children should be out and a contact when they are encountered out of hours. Read more of this initiative here.
The Department of Communities and Local Government have published guidance for Local Authorities on Community Cohesion, Contingency Planning and Tension Monitoring which is available here.
Ian Crichlow from the National Community Tension Team and I are currently working with a number of forces looking at the role of neighbourhood policing and community engagement including around the Prevent agenda. We will be running Intelligence and Community Engagement workshops in Thames Valley and Greater Manchester in June. In addition I will be visiting Hampshire, West Yorkshire and Merseyside.
As ever keep sending your examples of good practice and innovations to me.
Nick Keane -Knowledge Manager
MAY 2008
April was another busy week for those of us who are “learning the knowledge”. To follow on from last month’s article on knowledge management, time and again I am reminded of the importance of tacit knowledge “know how” that people possess. Let me illustrate, this month Ian Crichlow from the National Community Tension Team and I ran workshops for BCU Commanders at the Prevent Conference – to support the workshops we prepared a PowerPoint on the role of Neighbourhood Policing in preventing counter terrorism which is available in the document library here. However if you access the PowerPoint while you will get some understanding of the themes we discussed you will only be partially informed, you’ll have accessed the explicit knowledge but not the tacit, for that you would have to speak with Ian or myself. That’s part of the challenge of the complexity of today’s world – we need more contact to gain knowledge and understanding. Next month at least three of the meetings I am attending are discussing this issue and one of the key themes that informs this issue – web 2.0 technologies.
Early this month I attended the Welsh Neighbourhood Project Manager’s meeting in Cardiff, amongst the speakers was Lisa James from the Welsh Assembly Government who discussed Local Service Boards, their work looking at improving citizen focussed delivery in Wales. Lisa’s PowerPoint is in the document library here – as are her contact details.
Kent Police have introduced Neighbourhood Task Teams who are supporting neighbourhood teams in community engagement and collaborative problem solving – further details of the work in Kent forwarded from Inspector Bill Willis are in the document library here.
Merseyside Police are still sharing excellent examples of their case studies dealing with neighbourhood policing issues including work on bogus callers which has been added to the innovations section and a day in the life of a PCSO Lesley Ashlow – all the case studies have been added to the case study section here.
Dorset Police have also produced guidance on their Safer Neighbourhood Teams and have forwarded a number of case studies – unusually I have included them in the document library owing to the format and photos included. However if people are interested in how to do real collaborative problem solving – have some fun AND be good for the environment – please read Dorset’s scavenger hunt case study – all their work is available here.
Next month I shall be working in Hampshire, Kent, Cleveland and West Mercia. As ever if you are doing good work which needs to be shared with colleagues – let me know.
Nick Keane - Knowledge Manager
Nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk
APRIL 2008
Being a knowledge manager brings me into contact with a number of interesting people and March, was no exception including a meeting with Judith Johnson, Oliver Wright and colleagues from Thames Valley Police. The conversation revolved around the training that police staff get and what staff do following the training, part of which was the gap between what is discussed in the classroom and what happens out on the streets. Knowledge management looks at these issues through a number of different approaches and one of which is the difference between explicit and tacit knowledge. “Explicit” knowledge refers to all the facts you know and can consciously report, an example of this would be the definition of theft under the Theft Act. “Tacit” knowledge refers to the knowledge, wisdom and experience you carry internally. It is more concerned with “know how” rather than “know what.” It relates to the skills you require as you go through life. There is no universal best practice on how to console a friend, end a relationship or solve a moral disagreement. They are all dependent on the context in which they occur. So frequently I get requests for “the best way” to do a specific activity and spend a lot of time unpicking the context of problem before pointing in the direction of the right person or solution to view. The challenge for forces when they look at who knows what in the organisation is not just who knows what but what is it they know and finally can it be shared or transferred.
Some recent useful additions to the document library are a guidance paper on police officer photos on the internet and an excellent manual from Dorset Police on the Partners and Communities Together. Both can be accessed here
This month I shall be visiting Cumbria Police where they have been applying the Intelligence and Community Engagement Workshops, Greater Manchester for further discussion around Prevent and attending the Prevent Conference for BCU Commanders where Ian Crichlow and I will be taking a workshop on community engagement.
If you have any examples of good practice or any enquiries please contact me.
Nick Keane
Knowledge Manager
Nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk
MARCH 2008
There are now over 200 case studies demonstrating excellent neighbourhood policing and partnership working on the website, there are ideas you can use in your neighbourhood and if you and your good work is not there let me know.
February has seen me visiting a number of regions with special mentions go to Chief Inspector Ollie Wright in Thames Valley and Inspector Paul Morrissey in Gloucestershire Police who have been very supportive in arranging visits and ensuring that the good work that their forces are carrying out get recognised on the website.
There are a number of new case studies which people will find useful. Durham Police have worked to introduce shatterproof beer glasses into local pubs and are also trailing the use of DNA Grease to reduce crime. While Humberside Police are looking at positive rewards and diversionary activity through the Funhouse scheme. Lancashire Police have highlighted the positive effect of the FLARE project (Fire, Lifeskills and Rescue Awareness) in reducing re - offending in young people. North Tyneside Police have worked with local students to design anti criminal damage posters. Essex Police Authority have approved the reintroduction of mounted police officers as part of neighbourhood policing. Finally Northumbria Police have an excellent case study around the recycling the proceeds of crime, it’s green, it’s ethical and it (with the others) is in the case study section here.
The document library has a number of useful additions; Gloucester Police have developed guidance for school around actions to be taken when pupils come on the premises with knives. In terms of Community Support Officers West Yorkshire Police have shared their PCSO deployment policy and Leicester Police have developed a newsletter for their PCSOs, excellent work led by Superintendent Rob Nixon. Merseyside Police have been running a project around safety in public parks called Safespace, the evaluation of which is now available. Finally one in seven person in the United Kingdom is either deaf or hard of hearing, the Royal National Institute of the Deaf have produced guidance called Louder Than Words which all forces will find useful. This and the other documents mentioned are available here.
This month also saw a visit to the Neighbourhood Policing of officers from Bahrain, especial thanks to West Mercia, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and the Met who assisted with the visit. In addition I attended a very informative workshop on Neighbourhood Policing and Counter Terrorism hosted by Gloucestershire.
In March we already have visits planned to West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and West Mercia in addition I will be taking some (well earned) annual leave.
But keep the good work and the good news coming!
Nick Keane
Knowledge Manager
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2008
We continue to work with the National Community Tension Team with the Intelligence and Community Engagement work which looks at Community Intelligence and the role of Neighbourhood Teams in the Prevent strand. For further information contact me nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk
The Jill Dando Institute have completed guidance on Partnership Strategic Assessments and included an example of one recently completed by the Safer Middlesborough Partnership which forces will find useful. It can be accessed here.
There is an abundance of good practice and useful documentation from Surrey Police including a report on their reorganisation of their intelligence functions which have been aligned on geographical areas which has resulted in improved relationships and support of neighbourhood teams. They have commenced a partnership learning needs analysis with Surrey County Council which will support joint training. They are using Yahoo e mail groups for community engagement and have worked with Runnymede Council to support e reporting of anti social behaviour issues. All are available in document library here.
Resource allocation remains an issue and Hampshire Police have produced a PowerPoint which demonstrates their methodology and Staffordshire Police have produced a report on their hybrid officer process. Both are in the document library here.
Throughout February I will be visiting amongst other Thames Valley, West Yorkshire and Leicestershire. In addition I will be working with the NPIA International Faculty supporting a visit from Bahrain Police looking at Neighbourhood Policing. This will feature in the next newsletter.
In the mean time if you have any good practice or documents to share please contact me.
Nick Keane
Knowledge Management
DECEMBER 2007
Recent and ongoing events have brought data protection issues to the fore and a number of forces have asked for guidance. Three additions to the document library will assist; the Information Commissioners Office has issued a Framework Code of Practice on the sharing of Personal Information, the Association of Chief Police Officer’s Guidance on the Management of Police Information and finally we have liaised with the National Community Tension Team, who have shared a copy of their Key Individual Networks form which is data compliant. All are available in the document library.
Examples of good work around embedding NP have come from force visits and include South Wales’ community engagement and resource allocation strategies; Northamptonshire’s methods of communicating their neighbourhood engagement processes; Leicestershire’s Police Citizen Focus process incorporating a dip sampling process, questionnaire and survey; Wiltshire’s Anti-Social Behaviour process and Suffolk’s excellent presentation around Community Intelligence. All are available here.
In the Innovations section there are examples of refreshing the Partners and Communities Together process, working with people with mental health issues, Night Marshalls, Humberside Police using an innovative approach to training Police Community Support Officers and Suffolk Police working with an award winning community website.
The Anti-Social Behaviour section contains case studies from South Wales, Cumbria, Merseyside and Northumbria.
The Community Engagement section contains examples from Norfolk including the Norwich Street Leader Project; from Lincolnshire around using boxing and self defence classes and from Cumbria with the Neighbourhood Management Network Community Volunteer of the Year and their Scafell Project which has been recognised by the Prime Minister for its excellence.
There are 35 new case studies, including one from Northumbria Police who have been working in Gateshead to ensure that shopkeepers have a happy and safe Christmas and I wish the same to you.
If you have any case studies, policies or processes which you would like to share please contact me nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk .
NOVEMBER 2007
Another busy month for knowledge management and neighbourhood policing, with visits to Merseyside, Essex, West Mercia, Leicester and West Yorkshire to see a number of excellent initiatives. A special thank you to all the officers who made time in their days to meet with me.
In Liverpool I gave a presentation on Neighbourhood Policing and Profiles at the Association for Geographic Information Crime and Disorder SIG ‘crime mapping for problem solving and intelligence development’ seminar.
As embedding visits continue, there are new documents on our website you will find useful and informative. Nottinghamshire Police have developed an Activation Process which monitors how Neighbourhood Policing is being rolled in the force. This is available here.
Cumbria Police have good examples of their work with the Excellence in Policing KIN presentation and the review of their KIN policy. In addition they have their neighbourhood policing team training plans, their internal communications through the Staff Matters Newsletter and their guidance on call handling. All of which are in the document library.
Reports from Cambridgeshire include an excellent PowerPoint on their benefits realization work. While from West Yorkshire there is their crime allocation protocol, crime screening policy, Neighbourhood Policing awareness and youth engagement strategy, PCSO Deployment Strategy, Reassurance Mapping, and their QUADS (Quality Assurance Dip Sampling).
Among our new case studies are the Longhill Youth Project from Humberside and handing the community back to the community from West Mercia. Also give yourself a treat and read the drugs awareness talk case study.
In November I shall be visiting Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and will be at the NP Communications Conference talking about knowledge management and its importance to policing. As ever if you have good stuff to share or any questions: nick.keane@acpo.pnn.police.uk
OCTOBER 2007
September was a busy month with visits to a number of locations including Birmingham for the Problem Oriented Partnership Conference and Westminster and Altrincham for the Analysts Events.
Community Tension Team
The final pilot of the Intelligence and Community Engagement was delivered in Cumbria in partnership with Ian Crichlow from the National Community Tension Team. Once again the training was well received by the neighbourhood policing teams and the observers. Thank you to Inspector Dave Willetts for all his support in arranging this. Over the next month all the pilot sites will be evaluated and a decision will be made between our team and the National Community Tension Team on the best way to take this forward.
Embedding visits
The embedding visits are going well and as a result there are a number of new documents in the documents library, including an abstraction policy from Sussex Police and their work around mapping emerging communities. Excellent work from Lancashire including work on restorative justice, citizen focus policing and a welcome pack for incoming communities. This work is available in the document library and accessible here
New case studies
In addition there are over 30 new case studies in the case study section. We have created a new section for Neighbourhood Management this not only carries forward one of the recommendations of the interim Flanagan Review but looks at the current pathfinder sites. A number of case studies report on how Merseyside Police are developing in neighbourhood policing, partnership working and community engagement. The case study site can be viewed here
Visits
This month, I am visiting a number of forces including West Mercia, Leicestershire, Merseyside and Essex.
Nick Keane
Knowledge Management
AUGUST 2007
Intelligence and Community Engagement training
The piloting of the Intelligence and Community Engagement training continues and last month, Ian Crichlow from the National Community Tension Team and I delivered the training to PC’s and PCSO’s from Harlow and Epping Forest in Essex. The training was championed by Chief Inspector Paul Eveleigh, the District Commander of Harlow and supported by Sgt Vic Faccini. The staff participating engaged with the training and a lot was gained by all parties. This month we are working with Dorset Officers.
Cohesion and Integration
Cohesion and Integration issues continue to be of importance and two documents have been added to the document library around those subjects. The first is more strategic, a series of articles discussing Cohesion and Complexity put together by the Solace Trust, the other is more tactical, a pilot titled Understanding and Monitoring Tension and Conflict in Local Communities. It is guidance designed by the Institute of Community Cohesion and the Metropolitan Police and is aimed at Local Authorities, Police and Partner Agencies.
Working with Wardens
The Home Office, together with Communities and Local Government and the NPP, have put together a document of case Case Studies of joint working between Neighbourhood Policing Teams, Neighbourhood Warden Schemes and Neighbourhood Managers. This is available in our document library.
Using sport to build bridges in a community
In Cumbria, Hate Crime Officer Eric Field found that the male Muslims in his area (Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Turkish) had a real love of football but due to work and lack of opportunity they didn’t play. In a partnership with the local Muslim society, the local borough councils’, Cumbria AWAZ (BME support group) and Gretna FC Community coaches, a six week coaching plan was implemented with the councils’ funding the project. Local Police Community Officers joined the sessions to forge links and raise the group’s confidence in the Police. The group now have their own team and play regularly, and have an open invitation to other minority groups to join them in their training, such as the Chinese community. Other Muslims throughout the county have/or are planning to follow the group and form their own team, and these teams regularly play each other. A full case study of this is available here.
Further case studies
Others new case studies that have been brought to my attention include the work of a Dorset PCSO engaging vulnerable people in their villages and youth engagement work in Dudley, in the West Midlands.
Additionally an ‘innovations’ case study is an update on Head cams being used by officers. More information on all these can be accessed in the case study section of our website.
Nick Keane
Knowledge Management
JULY 2007
Surrey Police have produced guidance on Community Impact assessments for use where police/partners are aware of incidents, events or issues which may have an adverse impact on community tranquillity or may cause an increase in community tension.
Neighbourhood Profiles remain a point of interest and will feature in our upcoming workshops for analysts. There is a new category in the document library where a number of examples are available. The Thames Valley Police version is called Demographic and Social Trends Analysis and is available here and Cambridgeshire Constabulary is available here.
Paul Chandler, Performance Officer for Gloucestershire Constabulary, and colleagues, are developing a piece of work on the effect of socio-demographics on policing demand which is available here.
A Metropolitan Police guide to Street Briefings is available here.
Nick Keane
Knowledge Management
MAY 2007
It’s good to highlight work taking place in neighbourhoods which reflects good practice in a number of areas, the Quinzone programme from Quinton in Birmingham not only provides evidence of a good governance structure with partners, the police making links to other partnership work in this case an Education Action Zone, innovative work and proactive thinking in reality and progress with that vital group, young people. The short case study provided here only starts to do it justice.
A new and interesting web link is www.neighbourhoodfixit.com which is a public facing website for members of neighbourhoods to identify areas of local graffiti, street lamps out or damage to street furniture.
The Audit Commission have recently published a report on responding to the challenge of migrant workers; the Crossing Borders report is available in the document library (summary, full report).
Finally we have created a new section of case studies, titled Cohesion, which highlights some of the progressive work being carried out by neighbourhood officers addressing cohesion related issues. Here you can read about the work of Constable Keith Sinclair engaging with incoming communities from Poland, or Constable Becky Handy from West Mercia working the PACT process and supporting it with surgeries for groups that can’t attend the meetings, Community Support Officer Jan Foster engaging with incoming communities in Sussex or Constable Sue Sanderson working with young Asians in Burnley, Lancashire. The reality is that there is more of this work going on around the country and if you have details please forward it to us.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
MARCH 2007
A number of updates have been added to the website over the past month:
PRIME. Hampshire Constabulary has developed a collaborative, problem-solving, web-facing partnership system (PRIME) which allows all partners to work on initiatives and go through the problem solving process in a structured fashion.
Gloucestershire Police - Polish Forum Gloucestershire Police have been working on building links with the Polish community. Together with their partners, including Cheltenham County Council, the CDRP, the local Polish newspaper and others, they held an event designed to engage with new incoming Polish residents. To advertise it, posters were placed in the local Polish delicatessens, articles placed in the free newspapers and signs to the event were produced in Polish.
Leicestershire Constabulary has updated a number of key documents recently, including its neighbourhood profiles, neighbourhood problem solving plans, a Key Individual Network data base and a neighbourhood management document. These are all currently available in the document library.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
FEBRUARY 2007
A number of updates have been added to the website over the past month:
The BCU Commanders’ self assessment process template has been amended to include an action plan.
Staffordshire Police held an innovations fair at their headquarters in January and a number of pieces of innovative work were highlighted including the Safer Neighbourhoods Interview Questionnaire (SNIQ) is now available on our website: Part 1, Part 2 and initial analysis of results.
Georgina Holland, who is the Community Safety Manager for Arun District Council, and spoke at the NP practitioner event in Southampton, has prepared a PowerPoint around Anti Social Behaviour and a useful questionnaire for practitioners.
Two further 60 second briefings are now on the website, the guide to dealing with criminal damage and the guide to tactical evaluation.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
JANUARY 2007
Welcome to the first practitioner update of 2007 and may we wish you a Happy New Year.
The Neighbourhood Policing Self assessment guidance has been published, this will enable Forces to assess their performance in the implementation of Neighbourhood Policing and a copy of it is available here
In the last month of 2006 the Neighbourhood Policing Programme held a further ACPO lead event at Bramshill where presentations were given on the latest news on Community Support Officers, National Security and Counter Terrorism and the Centrex Leadership Academy. All these presentations are available on document site.
There is an updated 60 second briefing on Professionalising the Business of Neighbourhood Policing which can be found in the How to Guides section on the site.
An important ongoing issue in Neighbourhood Policing is the work in partnership development and the development of Local Area Agreements by Local Authorities. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has published guidance on LAAs which is available here.
The sourcing of potential sites for neighbourhood policing units concerns all forces, Victoria Downs of Cleveland Constabulary has produced a useful guide on the subject in addition Cleveland have produced a Property Inspection List, both of these are in the document library.
The Practitioner Events continue into the New Year with events in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire and the Fairfield's Conference Centre, Croydon.
As ever if you have work or ideas which you would like to share, please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
NOVEMBER 2006
We have released our second National Neighbourhood Policing newsletter with up to date news from the programme manager and field officers. The newsletter is available here.
November sees the launch of the first Neighbourhood Policing Programme Practitioner events, which will be running in Bylaugh Hall, Dereham, Norfolk for the forces of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire on Thursday 16 November, with a second event taking place on Thursday 30 November at the Torquay Riviera Conference Centre for Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset and Dorset. These events are targeted at neighbourhood staff from all disciplines and will include workshops from other neighbourhood staff about the work they are doing and the problems they tackle. We’ve chosen a range of interesting active practitioners to present so try to be there if you can.
For more information visit the events page of the website.
There are further practitioner events planned in the New Year.
Further opportunities for training with partners can be found in the resource centres which have been set up in each region to provide training for partners in a range of subjects including conflict management, engagement, crime reduction, problem solving and community cohesion. For further detail search for resource in the document library.
Further additions to the document library include guidance around PCSO in regard to vetting processes and the Age Discrimination Act.
Finally a knowledge centre like ours relies on many good people across the country to forward examples of good practise or point to out areas of knowledge worth further investigation. One such person is Kam Kayani from the West Midlands Police Service who has worked hard both in ensuring the roll out of neighbourhood policing in her area but has also been keen to forward examples of good work to us for further sharing across England and Wales. Kam is now moving on to other areas of work but it would be remiss of us if we did not say thank you for her contribution. So, thank you Kam.
In addition another regular supporter and contributor is Fay Howard Saunders who celebrates her 40th birthday this month, Happy Birthday Fay.
As ever if you have work or ideas which you would like to share, please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
OCTOBER 2006
We have just released the first version of National Neighbourhood Policing Newsletter, it includes updates from the Programme Director, Jerry Kirkby and all the regional field officers and news about the practitioner events we will be holding over the coming months. The newsletter is available here.
The Case studies for the winners of the Problem Oriented Partnerships Conference have been added to the Document Library. Further additions to the document library include Cambridgeshire Police who have completed a briefing paper on training development for staff working within Neighbourhood Policing Teams. There are a number of abstraction policies and finally a review of the training programme provided by Crime Concern to Community Support Officers in Avon and Somerset.
With November nearly here a timely addition to the case studies is work around safety on Bonfire Night by Avon and Somerset Police, building on successful work carried out in 2005.
There is a review of the Celebration of Culture and Equality Day run in Lincolnshire where the Police are working towards achieving greater community cohesion.
In addition there is excellent work with young people, the successful spongy football project in Blackburn and Operation Kiddie Cop by Gloucestershire Police, which shows how the community (in this case pupils from the local school) worked with the local police to address a speeding issue.
Finally look at www.saferstudents.co.uk which is a website supported by West Midlands Police providing safety advice to university students. While they are still developing the site it is worth visiting the innovative Bestmates campaign.
As ever if you have work or ideas which you would like to share, please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
SEPTEMBER 2006
The Association of Police Officers together with Price Waterhouse Coopers have undertaken a survey of chief officers teams and BCU Commanders on the issues facing police forces and BCUs in relation to the delivery and resourcing of neighbourhood policing. This can be accessed here.
Islam and Muslims in Britain has been written by Mehmood Naqshbandi an individual member of the Muslim community for police officers to assist them to achieve better relations with the community. This can be accessed on www.muslimsinbritain.org or through the web links.
As you will see by the August updates, the new 2006 Practice Advice on Professionalising the Business of Neighbourhood Policing has now been published and is available to down load from the website. In addition you can now access the Metropolitan Police Seven Stage Model for Neighbourhood Policing.
Following the announcements of the Tilley Awards on Tuesday 5th September we will be posting the case studies of winning entries on the website.
Other additions to to the document library include the ACPO guidance on PCSO's and a paper on collaborative working which has been published by the Hay Group.
Amongst the new case studies are a review of the work of the West Midlands Police in engegaging with members of the deaf community and an interesting example of the engagement between young people and PCSO's also from West Midlands.
Once again if you have work or ideas which you would like to share please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
August 2006
The 2006 Practice Advice on Professionalising the Business of Neighbourhood Policing is now available and can be accessed here
You can now access the Metropolitan Police Seven Stage Model for Neighbourhood Policing here
Wednesday 6th September 2006 is Neighbourhood Policing Day at the Problem Oriented Partnership Conference. Among the presentations will be an update on the national roll out of neighbourhood policing by the programme team, guidance on Community Engagement by the West Mercia team who produced the engagement guidance which is in the document library, a presentation on performance management by the West Midlans Neighbourhood Policing Team (see their latest work in the document library - including What does a good BCU look like?), and a presentation by Greater Manachester Police and partners on neighbourhood policing and partnership working. For more details on the conference go to the POP link on our web links page.
Greater Manchester use one of the most progressive partnership models in the United Kingdom, and Greater Manchester Against Crime (GMAC) have just announced a conference on 28th and 29th November 2006 titled - "NIM and Partnerships - Making it work". For more detail go to the GMAC link on our web links page.
Among our examples of good practise is work in Cumbria in engaging the public in talking about anti social behaviour (in our document library) and a new case study from Coventry showing a consistent approach to engaging with members of the deaf community.
Recent additions to the document library include: from last year, there is a copy of the Metropolitan Police Authority joint review of Policing and Mental Health and from this month, the Crown Prosecution Service Anti Social Behaviour Guidance.
Finally, if you have registered as a member of the neighbourhood policing website you will have received a questionnaire which will help us to continue to keep this site relevant and popular with all our visitors. Please respond with any suggestions you have.
Once again if you have work or ideas which you would like to share please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
July 2006
The Home Office have announced a funding round dealing with Guns, Knives and Gangs, this can be accessed from the Connected link on the weblinks page.
A number of new documents are now available in the documents library, including neighbourhood policing flyers and posters which are available to download and are free to use.
An extensive addition to the documents library is guidance produced by West Mercia Police on community enagement, in addition to a full guidance book there are seperate guides written on face to face surveys, environmental visual audits, public perception surveys, surgery's and meetings.
There is also the Neighbourhood Beat managers guide, a resource produced by Devon and Cornwall and the guidance on Community Safety Accreditation Schemes.
There are some excellent examples of community engagement in the case study section, including contacting Mulsims Women's Groups, work with people who are visually impaired and working with the traveller community.
Once again if you have work or ideas which you would like to share please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
June 2006
The Audit Commission have just published the Community Safety National Report - NEIGHBOURHOOD CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. It reviews current work around anti-social behaviour, including case studies and includes a five point plan for effective action. It can be accessed through the Audit Commission link on the weblinks page.
Another useful new link is the Russell Commission link, a National Framework for Youth Action and Engagement - this in turn leads to the wearev website which has just announced a funding round for youth volunteers.
Also view the Greater Manchester against Crime link to look at good practice from Manchester around community mapping and partnership work.
Recent additions to the document library include communication and marketing strategies, a presentation on the roll out of SNEN (Single non-emergency number) a Special Constabulary deployment strategy and a literature review on community engagement.
There are new case studies in community engagement including engaging with traveller communities. We've also started an innovations section which includes a couple of case studes around using weblogs.
Once again if you have work or ideas which you would like to share please forward them to us through the Contact Us page.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
May 2006
We have started a case study page which is available for practitioners who log on as members, recent updates include examples of good practice in the work of PCSOs and examples of community engagement. We are keen to keep providing practitioners with examples of practice from other areas so if you have an example please forward to us through the Contact Us page. We're especially keen for examples of community engagement and supporting the work of volunteers and neighbourhood watch groups.
Recent additions in the document library include examples of communications strategies and force Programme Initiation Documents. Again if you can share your work in these areas it would be appreciated.
Finally we are working on the How To section with recent updates including 60 Second briefings on Community Intelligencve (Practitioners, supervisors and analysts), this work was completed with the NCPE National Intelligence Model Team and has been well received. In addition is a short user-friendly guide on how to carry out an Environmental Visual Audit which was drawn up by Leicestershire Constabulary.
There will be more updates over the coming weeks and months so please keep checking, contributing and if you think of an area which needs addressing please let us know.
Nick Keane/Vivienne Cooling
Knowledge Management/Communications
