Publications

• Practice Advice
• Neighbourhood Policing Principles
• Signal Crimes
• Neighbourhood Policing Guide Powerpoint
  

Policing 2.0 The Citizen and Social Media (Event Presentations)

• Web 2.0 an overview (Dave-Briggs)
• New-Media and the Police (Mark Payne)
• Policing 2.0 (William Perrin)
• Police use of Social Networking (Ian davies)
• Policies and Strategies (Nick Jones)
• Social Media & Corporate Communication (Amanda Coleman)
• Engagement at the Neighbourhood Level (David Barf & Ed Rogerson)
• Microsoft PowerPoint - Power of Social Media (ACC Scobbie)

Customer Insight In the Police Service (Event Presentations)

• Customer Insight Event (Paul Dawson)
• Front Office Case Study (Sarah Dennet and Paul Hayward from Cambridgeshire)
• Understanding People– What Customer Insight Has to Offer the Police Service (Dan O’Mahoney)
• Customer Journey Mapping to Improve Citizen Focus (David Hicks)
• Ethnography and Observational Research (Johanna Shapira)
• Thinking Differently: National Segmentation of Children & Young People and Parent & Carers (Sara Jones)

Citizen Focus and Neighbourhood Policing Factsheets

• Citizen Focus and Neighbourhood Policing
• Citizen Focus Hallmarks
• Confidence Top Tips
• Bringing Faith Communities Together
• Contact Management
• Crime Mapping
• Integrated Neighbourhood Management
• The Policing Pledge
• Working with volunteers
• Working with the Third Sector
• Information provision: evidence based top tips   

Neighbourhood Policing Guides

• BCU Commanders Guide
• Neighbourhood Team Guide
• Neighbourhood Policing Partnership Guide
• PCSOs Guide
• Performance Guide
• Neighbourhood Policing in Rural Communities
• ASBO - A Guide for Neighbourhood Policing Teams
• Neighbourhood Policing Business Guide
• Neighbourhood Policing Business Guide (Welsh) 
• Neighbourhood Profile Guide
• Crimestoppers Neighbourhood Practitoner Guide
• Cultural Analysis Template
• Cohesion Guide

The 2004 to 2008 Home Office Strategic Plan and the White Paper – Building Communities, Beating Crime sets out a vision for policing which is accessible and responsive to citizens’ needs.

These documents present Neighbourhood Policing as a key component of the Police Reform Programme. In addition the Public Service Agreements for the Home Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Department of Constitutional Affairs and Crown Prosecution Service all reflect a commitment to neighbourhoods.

This matches the ACPO commitment to a greater emphasis on neighbourhood policing. The common intent is to produce national guidance to underpin an approach to neighbourhood policing across the Police Service. A Neighbourhood Policing Programme has been set up to oversee development and implementation.

It is intended that the Neighbourhood Policing Programme and the lessons learned will provide a developing knowledge base contained within a guidance document that will be sufficiently flexible to allow for local adaptation. Click here for a PDF copy of the practice advice

An additional focus of the Neighbourhood Policing Programme is to bring together the police, local service providers and the public to provide an effective problem solving approach in response to neighbourhood concerns.

It is the responsibility of Chief Officers to determine their neighbourhood policing strategies within these broad parameters. This means that the identification of neighbourhoods and the composition of teams, together with their relative distribution, will be a matter for local determination.

Please click here to view the document.

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Neighbourhood Policing Principles

Neighbourhood Policing:

1. Is an organisational strategy that allows the police, its partners and the public to work closely together to solve the problems of crime and disorder, improve neighbourhood conditions and feelings of security.
2. Is managed within mainstream policing activity, integrated with other policing services.
3. Requires evidence based deployment of neighbourhood teams against identified need.
4. Establishes dedicated identifiable, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policing teams which provide all citizens with a named point of access.
5. Reflects local conditions and is flexible and adaptive.
6. Allows the Police Service to work directly with local people to identify problems that are most important to them, thereby giving people direct influence over local policing priorities.
7. Establishes a regime for engaging other agencies and the public in problem solving mechanisms.
8. Uses the National Intelligence Model (NIM) as the basis for deployment.
9. Requires an effective engagement, communication and feedback strategy, and a clear explanation of where accountability lies.
10. Should be subject to rigorous performance management including clear performance monitoring against a local plan and commitments made to neighbourhoods.

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Signal Crimes

In summary, it states that:

1. Some crimes and disorders act as warning signals to people about their exposure to risk
2. These signals impact on the public's sense of security
3. They cause people to change their beliefs and / or behaviours to adjust to the perceived risk
4. The perspective covers a whole spectrum of crimes and disorders
5. The perspective gives an opportunity to target those problems that matter most to the public
6. Police and their partners can establish 'control signals' to neutralise signal crimes and signal disorders 

Please see the Signal Crimes 60 second briefing

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Neighbourhood Policing Partnership Guide

The Neighbourhood Policing Partnership Guides can be viewed on line in a pdf format. 

Police Forces and partner agencies have been supplied with a number of hard copy booklets.

Please click here to view the partnership guide

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