South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership
South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership
Strategic Assessment 2018-2020
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Document Details
Title South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership Strategic Assessment 2018-2020
Date Created June 2017
Produced By Elliott Nixon [email protected] Paul Curry [email protected]
South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership Intelligence and Research officers Partnership Contact Details Chair of South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership
Geographical Coverage South Worcestershire Malvern Hills District Worcester City Wychavon District
Time Period Data sources and date ranges vary. Time Periods for specific figures are given in the body of the document. Version Control 1.2
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Contents
Title/Subtitle Page Document Details Contents Introduction: South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership Statutory Organisations and Members Statutory Responsibilities and Principles Methodology Links to Wider Community Safety Initiatives South Worcestershire Strategic Assessment Priorities 2018-2020 Reducing Offending and Reoffending Reducing Reoffending Serious and Organised Crime Alcohol Related Offences Alcohol Related Anti-Social Behaviour Reducing Crime and Disorder Urban & Rural South Worcestershire Anti-Social Behaviour Youth Related Anti-Social Behaviour Community Trigger Worcestershire Viewpoint Survey Business Crime Protecting Vulnerable People Child Sexual Exploitation Hate Crime Vulnerable Adult Crime County Lines Cyber-Crime Domestic Abuse Night Time Economy Additional Concerns High Crime Areas Crime Per 100 persons Crime Per Indexes of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Data Gaps Health Data
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South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership Strategic Assessment 2018 - 2020
Introduction
The aim of the strategic assessment is to identify the most pressing issues and important risks to community safety within South Worcestershire. The findings of the strategic assessment identify the broad priorities upon which the partnership will focus its efforts during the next three years. The partnership plan will take these forward and identify the way in which they will be delivered, and share the appropriate resources to do so. A series of annual reviews will be conducted during this period which will highlight any emerging trends.
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South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership
The South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership (SWCSP) area comprises the three local authority districts in the South Worcestershire area; Malvern Hills District, Worcester City and Wychavon District (see above Map).
The South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership operates at a strategic level with an additional three operational Community Safety Partnership (CSP) groups, one within each local authority district. The operational groups carry out community safety work within that specific district. They are; Malvern Hills CSP, Wychavon CSP and Safer Worcester.
The SWCSP serves approximately 301,411 people across South Worcestershire 1.
Table 1: Population figures District Population 1 % of SW Area Sq. Miles Population/ Population Sq. Mile South Worcestershire 301,411 100% 491.85 612.81 Wychavon 122,943 40.79% 256.2 479.87 Malvern Hills 76,130 25.25% 222.8 341.69 Worcester City 102,338 33.96% 12.85 7964.05 1 ONS mid 2016 Population Statistics
Within each district, community safety initiatives reflect the nature of the physical environment of that district. Wychavon and Malvern Hills Districts are predominantly rural districts with a few larger and smaller sized towns spread across both districts (Great Malvern, Tenbury Wells, Upton- upon-Severn, Evesham, Pershore and Droitwich). These rural environments are reflected in the figures for their respective populations per square mile being much lower than that of the figure for Worcester City (Table 1). However, 2/3rds of the population are spread out across this rural area.
In contrast, Worcester City is a mixture of urban and suburban residential areas centred on the city itself. These environmental differences therefore dictate community safety initiatives in those areas individually, whilst also impact upon holistic CSP initiatives for South Worcestershire.
The city centre itself presents its own unique set of issues that are either not seen elsewhere, and/or amplified due to the busy environment, differing demographics and the centre’s numerous services. As such the operational Safer Worcester group also have an additional sub-group that specifically focus on issues pertinent to the City Centre area.
By using evidence to understand the environmental and geographical differences, the SWCSP can effectively target community safety interventions to maximise the use of a finite pool resources across all three districts.
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Statutory Organisations and Members
The SWCSP is made up of the ‘responsible authorities’ who are statutory members of any community safety partnership. These members form the core group of organisations on the partnership. The responsible authorities are;
Malvern Hills District Council* Worcester City Council Wychavon District Council* Worcestershire County Council West Mercia Police Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority National Probation Service Warwickshire and West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
* Malvern Hills District Council and Wychavon District Council operate a Joint Community Safety Service
The responsible authorities can also agree to invite additional organisations who are deemed to be key strategic partners that would contribute towards the delivery of the SWCSP Priorities.
The SWCSP current has the following non-statutory members;
Rooftop Housing Association Fortis Living West Mercia Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
The work of the SWCSP is guided by the following legal requirement;
Community safety partnerships set up at a district and/or county-wide local authority level have a statutory responsibility to reduce crime and re-offending in their area as defined by section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The Crime and Disorder Regulations 2007 place a statutory duty on community safety partnership’s to produce an annual community safety strategic assessment.
Statutory Responsibilities and Principles
All community Safety Partnerships have a statutory responsibility to carry out a number of required functions;
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014) set out that Community Safety partnerships were to review all community triggers for persons who felt that more could be done to tackle perceived Anti-Social Behavioural issues in their area.
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Where a domestic homicide has taken place - and if deemed necessary, a community safety partnership can be asked to hold a domestic homicide review (DHR).
The SWCSP has three principles that further guide how the partnership operates on a daily basis. These are the following;
Comply with the Worcestershire Information Sharing Protocol for Community Safety 2017. Collaborate with the Office of the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner Collaborate with the Worcestershire Safer Communities Board.
Methodology
The Partnership supports an Intelligence-led approach to community safety, and as such the SARA process (Scanning – Analysis – Response – Assessment) has been applied as a problem- solving model to identify partnership priorities and structure the strategic assessment. This model is also used throughout the year to inform partnership planning, projects and decision making.
The first stage within the SARA problem-solving model is the ‘scanning’ stage. During this stage of the process, relevant datasets are scanned using a set of criteria to identify potential community safety problems/priorities. In this instance, a wide range of criteria including a risk assessment matrix were used to identify potential priorities. Within this matrix, the volume, trend, cost and local community concern of crime was looked at. The priorities that emerged as a result of the scanning exercise were then analysed – (as is the second phase of the SARA process) in more detail to attain a greater understanding of the issue 2.
The Partnerships respond to the priorities - (Response, the third SARA stage) that have emerged from the strategic assessment through the development and implementation of a partnership plan. Once initiatives within the partnership plan have run their course, or have an acceptable quantity of measureable data, this is assessed by the partnership for its effectiveness at achieving its goal. Subsequently, initiatives can be halted, improved or continued dependent on how successful they are.
The reviewed and updated priorities for 2017 - 2020 which emerged as a result of the scanning and analysis processes are summarised at the end of the Document.
Continuous process Assessment
Scanning
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Links to Wider Community Safety Plans
West Mercia Police and Crime Plan
Telford & Shropshire Worcestershire Herefordshire Wrekin
Safer Communities Board: Community Safety Agreement Worcs. PREVENT Forum Priorities against Domestic Worcs. Worcestershire South Worcs. Worcs. Integrated Abuse & Children & Health & Community North Worcs. Drug and Offender Sexual Young People Wellbeing Safety CSP Priorities Alcohol Management violence plan Strategy Partnership Priorities
Safer Worcester South North Worcestershire Worcestershire Safer Malvern Strategic Strategic Assessment Assessment Safer Wychavon
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South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership Priorities 2018 – 2020
Through use of the SARA process and a consultation process involving both South Worcestershire Community Safety Partners and external agencies, the following three priority areas have been identified as focus areas for the next two years. The priorities identified have also been devised to maximise the holistic strength of the partnership. Additional community safety concerns are also analysed that can be addressed at an operational group level.
Reducing Offending and Reoffending
Reducing Reoffending
Reducing Re-offending is a statutory responsibility of any Community Safety Partnership. Information regarding entrants and re-entrants into the criminal justice system is limited to only those persons known on the Integrated Offender Management (IOM) cohort as the most up to date and available figures currently relate to all reoffending during 2015.
The IOM cohort refers to persons known to be serious (re)offenders that are actively managed for their offending. On the IOM cohort for 2016/17, there are currently 70 nominals in South Worcestershire. The most commonly committed crime by a member of the IOM cohort is shoplifting.
Recommendations:
1. There is a clear gap in contemporary knowledge for reoffending, related to both common offenders and other common offending crime types. There is a need therefore for collaboration between partners to share information on the aforementioned areas.
2. Partners need to collaborate more to understand where the highest demand is for resources to be allocated to reduce reoffending, particularly amongst serious repeat offenders.
3. In order to prevent offending and reoffending from happening, there is a need to understand common characteristics of first time entrants into the criminal justice system. A comprehensive analysis of first time entrants in therefore needed to identify any common characteristics.
Serious and Organised Crime
A newly emerging priority for all Police forces across the country is that of serious and organised crime. Within South Worcestershire, there is a regular police led multi-agency partnership meeting – ‘Serious and Organised Crime Joint Action Group’ (SOCJAG) that the SWCSP supports through individual membership from partners organisations. Each individual organisation is able to bring their own enforcement powers and resources to tackle the issues created by serious and organised crime. Additionally, there exists a dedicated SOCJAG analyst within West Mercia Police who regularly identifies and updates known and emerging Serious and Organised Crime Groups.
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Recommendations:
1. SOCJAG and the SWCSP should have regular two way updates regarding the known nature of serious and organised crime groups and the actions of the both partnerships pertaining to serious and organised crime.
2. SOCJAG and the SWCSP should be encouraged to use all powers that all partner agencies of both groups are able to use against serious and organised crime.
Alcohol Related Offences
During 2016/2017 17.65% of recorded crime in South Worcestershire was related to alcohol. For example, this could include the theft of alcohol (shoplifting), an assault where the offender/victim was under the influence of alcohol or the crime occurred in a premises where alcohol is available. Although the number of offences increased during 2016/17 versus the previous year, the percentage of alcohol related offences decreased across South Worcestershire. 18.7% of offences during 2015/16 were alcohol related compared to 17.64% during 2016/17. Worcester City saw the largest proportion of alcohol related crime (56.7%), followed by Wychavon (26.6%) and Malvern Hills (16.6%). Across South Worcestershire alcohol related crime begins to increase in number per month during April, peaking in September followed by a decrease during autumn and winter months.
The above graph shows the collective distribution of all alcohol related crime offences in South Worcestershire for 2016/17 during each hour of the day. 75% of all offences occur from 16:00 through the evening and early morning until 03:59; whilst 1 in 4 offences occur during 22:00- 00:59.
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Day Hour In breaking this Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Hour Total down further, the 0 0.99% 1.05% 0.93% 1.04% 1.23% 2.55% 3.56% 1923 table on the left 1 0.48% 0.42% 0.32% 0.46% 0.74% 1.98% 2.66% 1198 shows the 2 0.38% 0.58% 0.29% 0.41% 0.60% 1.95% 2.25% 1099 percentage 3 0.22% 0.43% 0.18% 0.40% 0.45% 1.60% 1.89% 879 proportion of all 4 0.18% 0.22% 0.21% 0.17% 0.22% 0.78% 1.04% 479 alcohol related 5 0.06% 0.05% 0.05% 0.11% 0.17% 0.38% 0.36% 201 crime recorded 6 0.04% 0.08% 0.07% 0.05% 0.10% 0.22% 0.26% 138 for each hour of 7 0.07% 0.09% 0.05% 0.05% 0.12% 0.16% 0.19% 124 each day. (Data 8 0.17% 0.15% 0.14% 0.08% 0.15% 0.22% 0.15% 181 from April 12 – 9 0.20% 0.17% 0.20% 0.13% 0.25% 0.28% 0.19% 242 February 18). 10 0.20% 0.21% 0.14% 0.15% 0.19% 0.24% 0.21% 228 11 0.19% 0.22% 0.30% 0.19% 0.24% 0.31% 0.26% 289 A greener colour 12 0.34% 0.36% 0.29% 0.36% 0.38% 0.53% 0.46% 462 indicates a 13 0.37% 0.34% 0.27% 0.24% 0.19% 0.39% 0.27% 352 smaller 14 0.48% 0.34% 0.27% 0.26% 0.38% 0.44% 0.47% 447 proportion of alcohol related 15 0.37% 0.44% 0.51% 0.52% 0.54% 0.51% 0.48% 570 crime, whereas a 16 0.47% 0.50% 0.53% 0.60% 0.63% 0.63% 0.44% 644 redder colour 17 0.61% 0.55% 0.52% 0.54% 0.55% 0.85% 0.62% 721 indicates a larger 18 0.64% 0.59% 0.61% 0.58% 0.75% 0.91% 0.83% 832 proportion. The 19 0.68% 0.59% 0.55% 0.64% 0.90% 1.17% 0.80% 904 table shows that 20 0.90% 0.64% 0.69% 0.84% 1.07% 1.45% 1.04% 1125 there are two 21 0.71% 0.62% 0.80% 0.80% 1.49% 1.44% 0.82% 1133 periods of 22 0.77% 0.84% 0.61% 0.84% 1.69% 2.23% 0.95% 1343 increased 23 0.64% 0.68% 0.61% 0.99% 2.06% 2.69% 0.84% 1446 recording of Day 1725 1723 1552 1772 2565 4055 3568 16960 alcohol related Total 10.2% 10.2% 9.2% 10.4% 15.1% 23.9% 21% crime. The first period is from 21:00 on Friday evening through to Saturday morning at 03:59. This period accounts for 13.3% of all reports made. The second period begins at 20:00 Saturday evening and continues through to 03:59 on Sunday Morning. This period accounts for 18.2% of all reports made across South Worcestershire. We can infer therefore that the largest demand for Police services is between those two periods and more needs to be done to highlight the hazards of alcohol in relation to committing crime.
During 2016/17, alcohol was involved in almost 1 of every 4 recorded domestic abuse crimes (24.94%) across South Worcestershire. Furthermore, alcohol was involved in 17.8% of all recorded shoplifts across the area; however, the most common crime committed during 2016/17 related to alcohol was assault. 51.1% of all alcohol related crimes contained a form of assault against another person of which 70% occur in the period between 20:00 and 03:59.
Alcohol Related ASB
During 2016/17 alcohol was related to 13.5% of all South Worcestershire anti-social behaviour reports made to West Mercia Police. Similar to any crime committed, alcohol related ASB could refer to any incident in where alcohol was involved. For example; a person may be carrying a 11 | P a g e
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The number and proportion of alcohol related ASB reports decreased during 2016/17 compared to the previous year. 16.6% of all ASB across South Worcestershire was alcohol related during 2015/16 compared to 13.5% during 2016/17. Worcester city saw the largest proportion of alcohol related ASB reports (63.5%), followed by Wychavon (26%) and Malvern Hills (10.5%). Alcohol related ASB reports have been steadily decreasing year on year since 2012/13, and since 2013/12 there has been a 33% reduction in the number of alcohol related ASB incidents across the area (compared to 2016/17).
The above graph shows the monthly trend of alcohol related ASB reports for the period between 2012/13 and 2016/17. There is a notable increase beginning during March, peaking during the summer months (July and August) followed by a decrease throughout the autumn and winter.
The graph below shows the collective distribution of all alcohol ASB reports for 2016/17 across the day. Similarly to alcohol related offences, a larger number of reports are made during the afternoon and evening period. There are two notable peaks during the day, firstly between 16:00 and 17:59, secondly between 21:00 and 21:59.
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Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should work closely with Worcestershire Health and Well-being Board. Addressing alcohol issues including violence and crime is contained with the Worcestershire Joint Health and Well-being strategy 2016-2021.
2. The SWCSP should work closely with Swanswell Drug and Alcohol service to provide a route away from Drugs and Alcohol for addicted offenders.
3. The SWCSP should support interventions and campaigns that tackle drug and alcohol related crime and anti-social behaviour and consider further interventions.
Reducing Crime and Disorder
As with reducing offending and reoffending, reducing crime and disorder is a statutory responsibility of any community safety partnership. The South Worcestershire community safety partnership recognise that in order to reduce crime and disorder across the south Worcestershire area, there has to be an understanding of both the environment and demographic differences inherent across the three district areas.
It is worth noting that since April 2016 West Mercia Police transformed the method in which crime gets recorded; moving to an ethical crime recording procedure in line with national crime recording procedures. Following this change, 2016/17 saw 21% more crimes being recorded across south Worcestershire compared to the previous year. (Nationally, crime also increased by an average of 20%).
Tenbury Wells
Droitwich Spa
Worcester
Pershore Great Malvern
Evesham Upton-upon-Severn
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Urban and Rural South Worcestershire
For the purpose of more detailed analysis, the south Worcestershire area has been defined as either being ‘Urban’ or ‘Rural’ which enables the partnership to understand both common types of crimes and incidents and those that are more prominent in either area. Urban areas include; Great Malvern, Upton-upon-Severn, Pershore, Evesham, Worcester City (all), Tenbury Wells and Droitwich Spa. Rural areas are defined as existing outside of those urban areas (see map).
During 2016/17 78.4% of all crime across south Worcestershire occurred in an urban area. The table here shows the distribution of crime across both rural and urban town areas. Compared to 2015/16, the distribution of crime across south Worcestershire remained relatively stable with a small increase in the proportion of all crimes occurring within Worcester City, leading to minor decreases within other urban and rural areas. Recorded crime figures did however increase in all urban and rural areas except for Upton-upon-Seven during 2016/17.
Percentage of % proportion change % Change vs. Urban Crime Area Crime (2016/17) vs. previous year previous year Worcester City 47.69% Increase by 1.3% +24.5% Great Malvern 10.54% Decrease by 0.04% +20.69% Evesham 9.49% Decrease by 0.04% +20.69% Droitwich Spa 7.12% No Change +20.79% Pershore 1.98% Decrease by 0.22% +9.14% Tenbury Wells 0.65% Decrease by 0.08% +7.87% Upton-upon-Severn 0.64% Decrease by 0.16% -3.57% Rural Crime 21.63% Decrease by 0.5% +18.44%
The top 10 most committed crimes (high volume crimes) for 2016/17 within urban and rural areas are shown in the below table. The 10 most committed crimes in urban areas accounts for 70% of all crime committed within those areas. For rural areas the figure is higher at 73.5%. This data aligns to that of the West Mercia Police Performance Data.
Urban Rural Rank (opposite Rank (opposite Sub Crime Group Sub crime Group Rank) Rank) Burglary in a Building Other Shoplifting 1 (19) 1 (9) than a Dwelling Assault without Injury 2 (3) Other Theft Offences 2 (4) Assault with Injury 3 (4) Assault without Injury 3 (2) Other Theft Offences 4 (2) Assault with Injury 4 (3) Harassment 5 (6) Theft from a Vehicle 5 (8) Criminal Damage To A Vehicle 6 (8) Harassment 6 (5) Public Fear, Alarm or Distress 7 (10) Other Criminal Damage 7 (12) Offences Theft from a Vehicle 8 (5) Criminal Damage To A Vehicle 8 (6) Burglary in a Building Other than a 9 (1) Burglary in a Dwelling 9 (11) Dwelling Public Fear, Alarm or Distress Criminal Damage to a Dwelling 10 (16) 10 (7) Offences 14 | P a g e
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As shown in the table above, whilst there are overlapping issues that both areas have, the frequency that certain issues are experienced differ. Whilst shoplifting is the largest issue for urban areas, in rural areas, shoplifting account for only 1.2% of recorded crime. Conversely, whilst the biggest issue in rural areas - non-dwelling burglary is outranked by 8 other more frequent problems in urban areas. Prominent on both lists are both types of assault accounting for 22% of all recorded crime across south Worcestershire.
Acquisitive crime accounts for 46.75% of all rural crime, the biggest being burglary non-dwelling (14.7%) followed by other theft (12.2%). Both burglary types are a more prevalent concern in rural areas compared to urban areas; however the number of dwelling burglaries in urban south Worcestershire is far higher than rural areas. Rural environments offer increased opportunities for thieves to target farm buildings, sheds, and other non-residential outbuildings that often contain higher value items used by farmers and other rural based companies. Other theft offences often involve items of value going missing, and may have some cross over with burglaries where the time of offence is unknown.
Grouping the types of high volume offences in each area, we see the following themes for 2016/17;
Urban Acquisitive Crime (theft, shoplifting & burglary) Violent Crime (Assaults) Criminal Damage
Rural Acquisitive Crime (theft, shoplifting & burglary) Violent Crime (Assaults) Public Disorder & Harassment
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP consider the nature of crime in both areas and use resources appropriately.
2. The SWCSP engage with external partners with urban and rural interests that can provide additional knowledge of tackling urban and rural crime problems (e.g. NFU, CAB).
Anti-Social Behaviour
Whilst not a criminal offence; anti-social behaviour (ASB) causes harm to communities, the person and to the environment. A series of incidents built up over a prolonged period of time can cause a negative impact on a person’s quality of life, although the evidence of harm caused by anti-social behaviour is limited. In order to combat ASB, enforcement actions can be taken by many of the individual community safety partnership organisations. Joint enforcement therefore can provide a wide range of enforceable controls to contain and prevent further ASB incidents from occurring with further penalties for non-compliance.
Anti-social behaviour can be categorised as one of; Nuisance1, Personal2 or Environmental3. During 2016/17, 75% of all south Worcestershire reports of ASB were for Nuisance, 18% were for 15 | P a g e
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Personal, and 7% were for Environmental. 18.3% were reported in Malvern Hills, 51.5% were reported in Worcester City and 30.2% were reported in Wychavon. Finally, 16% of ASB reports were reported in a rural area, meaning 84% were within an urban area.
2016/17 saw a small increase on the previous year in the total number of reported incidents across the south Worcestershire area, however figures remain comparable to ASB levels during both 2013/14 and 2014/15.
The top five wards across south Worcestershire for ASB reports are shown in the table below. (Note that both St. John and Pickersleigh Wards share the same percentage amounts). Of the 6 wards below, 4 are within Worcester City. Both Bengeworth and Cathedral wards are located within Evesham Town centre and Worcester city centre respectively, whilst the remaining 4 wards are suburban residential areas. All are within urban areas as defined above.
% of all ASB in South Rank Ward Area Reports Worcestershire 1 Cathedral Worcester City 2107 18.0% 2 Warndon Worcester City 614 5.2% 3 Bengeworth Wychavon 567 4.8% 4 Gorse Hill Worcester City 468 4.0% 5 Pickersleigh Malvern Hills 442 3.8% 5 St. John Worcester City 442 3.8%
1 Nuisance ASB incidents comprise of “Where an act, condition, thing or person causes trouble, annoyance, inconvenience, offence or suffering to the local community in general rather than to individual victims.” NSIR, (Home Office, 2011).
2 Personal ASB incidents comprise of “an individual or group or having an impact on an individual or group rather than the community at large. It includes incident that cause concern, stress, disquiet and/or irritation through to incidents which have a serious adverse impact on people’s quality of life.” NSIR (Home Office, 2011).
3 Environmental ASB incidents “deal with the interface between people and places. It includes incidents where individuals and groups have an impact on their surroundings including natural, built and social environments.” NSIR (Home Office, 2011).
Youth Related Anti-Social Behaviour
Youth Anti-social behaviour is similar to Alcohol related ASB whereby any report that infers that a younger person was involved in the incident is counted as a youth related ASB incident. This could mean that a younger person was; directly involved (perpetrator/victim) with the incident, indirectly involved (witness), or the incident occurred within a youth setting (e.g. youth club). During 2016/17 18.5% of all south Worcestershire ASB reports made were youth related of which 52.6% were within Worcester City, 31.6% within Wychavon and 15.8% within Malvern Hills. There were however 22.6% fewer youth related ASB reports made during 2016/17 compared to the previous year. The majority of youth related ASB reports are from with urban areas (88.1%). 16 | P a g e
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During the past five years, youth ASB has seen decreases every year (since 2012/13). The graph above shows the breakdown across all three districts for the past five years. It is notable that during Q1 and Q2 (April-Sep) there are increases in the number of ASB reports made, however the longer term trend across the five years is of a decrease. Malvern Hills has seen a 56.2% decrease, Worcester City a 41% decrease and Wychavon has seen a 47.3% decrease in Youth related ASB.
The top five wards across south Worcestershire for Youth ASB are shown in table below and account for just over 1 in 3 of every Youth related ASB report made. As can be seen, 4 of the top five are located within Worcester City, whilst Bengeworth ward is located within the centre of Evesham.
% of all Youth ASB Rank Ward Area Reports in South Worcestershire
1 Cathedral Worcester City 210 9.6% 2 Warndon Worcester City 164 7.5% 3 Gorse Hill Worcester City 134 6.1% 4 Bengeworth Wychavon 116 5.3% 5 St. John Worcester City 108 4.9%
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should consider analysing; the nature of ASB reports, the demand they place on resources, the frequency of similar ASB reports and the common locales of repeat ASB reports.
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3. The SWCSP should develop a toolkit of enforcement responses that each agency can apply and should consider using when addressing ASB issues.
Community Trigger
The community trigger process hasn’t been as widely used as was initially anticipated following its creation in 2014. During 2016/17 there were four activations of the community trigger process across south Worcestershire, each were reviewed by their respective local authority area.
Viewpoint Survey
The Worcestershire county council viewpoint survey provides opportunity for residents to voice their opinion on the services they receive in their local area as well as give measures on their quality of life. There are a number of measures that the SWCSP can use to add context in understanding problems at a community level;
Malvern SW Measure (from Viewpoint survey 2017) Worcester Wychavon Hills Average % who feel they belong to their immediate 80.1% 67.3% 75.7% 74.4% neighbourhood. The percentage of people who feel that they belong to their immediate neighbourhood has remained steady for the last four years.* % who think that anti-social behaviour is a 5.4% 18.5% 10.4% 11.43% problem in their local area. In Wychavon and Worcester, those that think ASB is a problem in their local area increased in 2016 and have remained the same in 2017* % who think there is a problem with people not treating each other with respect and 12.8% 28.5% 18.9% 20.07% consideration in their local area All areas of South Worcestershire saw an increase in those that think there is a problem with people not treating each other with respect and consideration, Worcester and Wychavon notably so.* % who think that drunk and rowdy behaviour is 9.1% 28% 14.4% 17.17% a problem in their local area. Worcester and Wychavon have seen an increase of 4-5 percentage points since 2013.* % who think that drug use or drug dealing is a 15.2% 27.6% 24.5% 22.43% problem in their local area. 2017 saw a 6 percentage point increase for Wychavon which is now at 25% compared with 14% in 2014.* Ranking of ‘level of crime’ as an important thing to consider making somewhere a good 3rd 2nd 2nd N/A place to live. The level of crime has remained in the top three priorities for the last five years in all South Worcestershire districts.* % feeling safe during the day 93% 93% 95% 93.7% Malvern Hills has declined over the last two years whilst Worcester City and Wychavon have remained steady.* % feeling safe after dark 79% 65% 75% 73%
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Malvern Hills has declined from 87% in 2014 to 79% in 2017. Overall feeling of safety after dark in South Worcestershire have fallen from 78% in 2014 to 73% in 2017.*
*See Appendix A for Viewpoint Data Tables
Business Crime
Business crime has been an ever-present theme of community safety for a number of years, however has recently been on the increase due to the rise in cyber-crimes against businesses. There has also been a recent drive for recording officers to use the Business Crime interest marker better, hence, that too has added to the increase in the number of business crimes. A business crime itself is not a standalone crime- similar to alcohol related crime, a business crime can be any crime that has taken place where the victim is a business (rather than a person), or the crime has impacted upon the functioning of a business (e.g. cyber-crime*).
The majority of business crime within South Worcestershire is shoplifting (theft from shops), followed by burglary from non-dwellings. During 2016/17 shoplifting reports across south Worcestershire increased by 28.3% with the majority of reports made from Worcester (58.9%). Wychavon district saw an increase however of 64.7% on the previous year, whilst there was no change within Malvern Hills District.
*Cyber-crime is covered within; protecting vulnerable people
Protecting Vulnerable People
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
The definition of Child Sexual Exploitation is as follows;
“The sexual exploitation of children and young people under 18 involves exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where young people (or a third person or persons) receive ‘something’ (e.g. food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, affection, gifts, money) as a result of performing, and/or others performing on them, sexual activities.
Child sexual exploitation can occur through use of technology without the child’s immediate recognition, for example the persuasion to post sexual images on the internet/mobile phones with no immediate payment or gain. In all cases those exploiting the child/young person have power over them by virtue of their age, gender, intellect, physical strength and/or economic or other resources.”
As with cyber-crime CSE is very much an emerging crime, with a lot of recent national news and print media coverage putting it in the forefront of the general publics’ mind. High profile national cases have increased the awareness of CSE, which is now a priority for all South Worcestershire authorities to do more to prevent it from happening. Within Worcestershire, action against CSE is led by the Worcestershire Safeguarding Children’s board (WSCB), where a range of relevant 19 | P a g e
South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership partners are tasked with leading the county wide response against CSE. The board also has a recent problem profile of CSE across Worcestershire, defining what types of problems the county faces from CSE as a whole.
Figures available from West Mercia Police show an increase in the number of CSE related crimes that have had the CSE marker attached to them. Across south Worcestershire; 41.94% were within Wychavon, 37.1% were within Worcester and 20.97% were within Malvern Hills.
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP engage with the WSCB to provide additional resource where appropriate.
Hate Crime
A hate crime is any crime against the person, or their property, that is targeted against a person because of hostility or prejudice toward that person’s; disability, race or ethnicity, religion/beliefs or non-belief, sexual orientation and/or, transgender identity (From: www.report-it.org.uk). Hate crimes can also include any individual characteristics of a person that makes them appear different such as an alternative lifestyle or the clothing they wear - classed as; prejudice against culture/lifestyle.
Any crime can be classified as a hate crime if part of the motive for committing the offence was hate related (from any one or more of the categories of hate above). Hate crimes are often persistent in nature; because of this, they are high impact crimes upon an individual which can have devastating consequences for victims and their families.
Hate crime is known to be an underreported offence due to limited understanding of what constitutes a hate crime or who to report a hate crime to. Therefore, on hate crime, the aim of the SWCSP is to highlight what constitutes a hate crime, create more awareness on how to report hate crimes and to reduce all instances of hate crime occurring. Through highlighting the many ways of reporting a hate crime, many that have occurred in the past would not have been reported as a person might not have known they saw or were the victim of a hate crime.
At the point at which a hate crime is recorded more than one type of crime might have occurred. For instance, a criminal damage to a building which is considered to be hate related might have occurred after criminal damage to a vehicle for the same hate reason. Therefore, initial reports for hate crimes are duplicated for each type of crime that occurs during the entire hate event.
During 2016/17 66% of all recorded hate crime events were within Worcester City, 19.5% were within Wychavon and 14.5% were in Malvern Hills. All areas saw an increase in reports compared to the previous year. Collectively, there was a 35.9% increase in recorded hate crime across the south Worcestershire area. The following is a percentage breakdown of the types of hate involved in all offences across south Worcestershire. Race 75.2%, Sexual Orientation 11.3%, Disability 7.32%, Religion/Faith/No Faith 3.1%, Prejudice against Culture/Lifestyle 2.25% and Transgender 0.85%.
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Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should create a multi-channel awareness campaign highlighting what constitutes a hate crime and who to report a hate crime to.
2. The SWCSP should signpost victims of hate crime to Victim Support services.
3. The SWCSP should continue to engage with wider groups such as; Self advocacy groups, religious groups and ethic community groups.
4. The SWCSP should produce a problem profile of Hate crime across south Worcestershire to determine the areas and communities where hate crime is most prevalent.
Vulnerable Adult Crimes
Similar to the markers used for Youth ASB and Alcohol ASB, a vulnerable adult marker is also used to measure the amount of all crimes in which involves an adult deemed to be vulnerable. A vulnerable adult is defined as; “a person aged 18 or over who is in receipt of or may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness and who is or may be unable to take care of him or herself, or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or exploitation.”
The community safety partnership and West Mercia Police have had an emphasis on raising awareness of adults who may present themselves as being potentially vulnerable, and as such the use of the vulnerable adult marker by West Mercia Police has increased in line with better recording practices.
Of the 723 offences committed against a person deemed to be vulnerable, 29.74% were for violent assault, 8.58% were for theft from a dwelling, 7.71% were for a dwelling burglary and 5.12% were for theft not otherwise coded. Theft not otherwise coded includes a large number of incidents including; money or a purse/wallet stolen from a vulnerable person, a form of financial abuse has occurred and other isolated incidents.
Across south Worcestershire, 21.8% of offences were in Malvern Hills, 43.4% in Worcester City, with 34.8% in Wychavon. Almost 80% of vulnerable adult offences were committed in an urban area (as defined previously), with Worcester City accounting for 44% of the total offences.
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should continue to offer the free safe and sound service to identified vulnerable victims of crime in conjunction with the Safe and Well Program.
County Lines
A recent growing trend is for vulnerable persons becoming a victim of crime by criminals associated to county lines gangs. Criminals are often found to be cuckooing in the house of a 21 | P a g e
South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership vulnerable person, from where they are running their local criminal operation. Action against county lines is being taken by locally and nationally by the police, with support from serious and organised crime groups such as SOCJAG.
County lines groups operate and a commit a broad spectrum of criminal activities including; drug supply and distribution, human trafficking and sexual exploitation, prostitution, modern day slavery and environmental crimes.
Recommendations
1. See recommendations under Serious and Organised Crime above.
Cyber crime
Cyber-crime is very much a crime that we know is widespread but is under reported. The extent to which cyber-crime is now being understood estimates that 50% of all crime that occurs is now cyber-related or cyber-enabled (defined below). There are a wide range of reasons for cyber- crimes not to be reported; firstly, a person may not be aware that they have become a victim of cyber-crime therefore the crime may go unnoticed as the victim is not aware of what constitutes a cyber-crime. Secondly, financial institutions that are made aware of a cyber-crime (e.g. card cloning) often encourage people not to report it in order to prevent damage to their reputation. Furthermore, a victim may not be aware of whom to report the crime to. Nationally, people are encouraged to report all cyber-crimes to Action Fraud, a division of the City of London Police.
There are two distinct types of cyber-crime; cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent. Cyber-enabled can involve any traditional form of crime (assault, burglary, etc.) where an element of information communication technology (ICT) has been used within the crime taking place. The latter involves any form of crime where ICT is essential for the crime to take place (e.g. Email Scam, card Cloning, Social media bullying, sexting, etc.).
A Cyber-crime marker can be attached to a crime report where an element of ICT is suspected to be involved within the event - the figures for which are below. South Worcestershire has a dedicated police resource (business and rural liaison officer) whose remit also involves tackling cyber-crime across the area.
Year For the year 2016/17 there were 354 2015/16 2016/17 % increase District recorded crimes including the CYB marker Malvern Hills 36 81 225% for cyber-crime. This represents a 205% Worcester 82 153 187% increase on the previous year. As Wychavon 55 120 218% previously noted, the use of the CYB Grand Total 173 354 205% marker is increasing as detecting rates improve. It is worth highlighting also that in 2012/13, just 4 crimes used the CYB marker; 13/14 there were 10; and 14/15 there were 67. The SWCSP receive further data from Action Fraud for reports that have been recorded by them. For 2016/17 there were 1438 records made of reports to Action Fraud relating to cyber-crimes in south Worcestershire. 25% were categorised as “none of the above”, meaning they did not fit into any pre-existing category of cyber-crime. The next largest category was for Computer Software 22 | P a g e
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Service Fraud. Commonly a person who purports to require access to a person’s computer to fix a problem will take over the computer and demand payment to give back control. This is followed by “Online shopping and auctions”. A common crime recorded occurs when a person orders an item online, the item does not arrive and the seller can no longer be contacted. Common to most of the reports made to action fraud is the demand for, or loss of money that a victim incurs.
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP raise awareness of common cyber-crime scams and offer prevention advice to lessen the chances of becoming a victim of cyber-crime.
2. The SWCSP produce a victim profile to understand the common characteristics of cyber-crime victims leading to better demographic focused campaigns.
Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse (DA) report counting includes any crime recorded by the police that is considered to involve an element of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse can be committed by a partner or ex- partner, family member or carer and can involve the following types of abuse;
Physical Sexual (Inc. exploitation) Neglect Financial/Material Psychological/Emotional
The recording of domestic abuse has recently become a higher level priority (linked to the West Mercia Police - Every Victim of Domestic Abuse strategy [EVODA]) for the police and this is reflected in the increase in crimes that have had a domestic abuse marker added to them. Also collated by the SWCSP are the amounts of Domestic Abuse incidents. This occurs where a report has been made which is not necessarily a crime, but an element of domestic abuse has occurred.
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The previous graph shows the distribution of domestic abuse crimes and incidents recorded across each of the three south Worcestershire districts. Approximately 1 in 5 Domestic Abuse crimes and incidents occur in Malvern Hills, 1 in 3 across Wychavon and almost 1 in 2 in Worcester City. Of the top ten wards across south Worcestershire for recorded crimes and incidents; 6 are within Worcester City (Cathedral, Warndon, St. John, Gorse Hill, Nunnery and Rainbow Hill), 3 are in Wychavon (Bengeworth, Droitwich West and Evesham North), finally - Pickersleigh in Malvern Hills. The 6 wards within Worcester City themselves account for 33% of all recorded crimes and incidents across south Worcestershire during 2016/17.
The graphs below show the recent changes in amount of both crimes and incidents recorded by the Police during the past 5 years.
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Put side by side on the same graph (as above) it is clear to see that as of 2015/2016 and continuing on through the current year, the number of incidents recorded are now below the number of crimes, and are much more closer in numbers per month. Previously however, there was a large disparity between events being recorded as a crime compared to being recorded as an incident.
During 2016/17 54.54%of all domestic abuse reports were for a crime, meaning 45.46% were reported without a crime occurring. Of all crimes therefore that were recorded during 2016/17, 13% involved a form of domestic abuse. Females experienced 72.74% of all reported domestic abuse crimes, whereas Males experienced 27.26%.
Domestic Abuse cases are reviewed on a bi-monthly basis at the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) at which individual members of the SWCSP will be present representing their own agency. During 2016/17 there were 292 referrals to MARAC across South Worcestershire of which 23.9% were for repeat referrals. The proportion of repeat referrals during each year saw no change across any of the three individual districts; however there was an increase in the number of MARAC cases during 2016/17, with a greater number of cases being referred from Wychavon.
District Malvern Hills Worcester Wychavon South Worcs. Year 15/16 16/17 15/16 16/17 15/16 16/17 15/16 16/17 New 49 49 98 101 54 72 201 222 Repeat 11 12 35 37 17 21 63 70 Total 60 61 133 138 71 93 264 292
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should engage with the Worcestershire Forum against Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence to provide additional resource where appropriate as a named partner within the Worcestershire Domestic Abuse Strategy 2017-2020.
2. The SWCSP should engage with key partners in high areas of recorded domestic abuse to provide additional resource and capacity to address domestic abuse issues.
Night Time Economy
A crime is defined as being a NTE crime if it meets the following range of criteria.
Offence will have taken place within a town centre (listed below). Offences fall within one of the following categories: Criminal Damage, Public Disorder, Personal Violence, Sexual Violence and Drugs. Offences are committed between 20:00:00 and 05:59:59.
The following town and city centre areas are predefined and are included in NTE crimes in South Worcestershire: Worcester City, Great Malvern (town), Malvern Link, Droitwich Spa, Evesham, and Pershore. Pershore town centre was included in the figures during 2015/16 and figures were subsequently backdated as such.
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It is worth considering that many people from across South Worcestershire and beyond come into Worcester City, as Worcester city centre has the largest regional NTE. There is within Worcester City a growing abundance of premises with licenses to operate later into the evening, serving food and drink, as well as other entertainment premises (pubs, bars and clubs) open into the early hours of the morning. The opening of the Cathedral square plaza has added additional capacity for more people to enjoy an evening out in Worcester City and will therefore be monitored for any emerging NTE trends in the coming years. It is worth highlighting that as of 2015/16 figures from Public health England, Worcester district had the highest number of licensed premises to sell Alcohol per square Kilometre (431 premises, 13 per Sq./Km).
Tackling NTE crimes is important for a variety of reasons. The types of crimes that occur during the NTE can have a huge impact on both the victim and the environment in which it occurs. This has the potential to be exacerbated by the potential of alcohol and/or drugs to be involved in the crime. The cost of an NTE crime is not only to the victim, offender and the local environment/establishments but many other services are potentially required to deal with an incident. Street cleaning, paramedic response/ambulance service, A&E and Police resources may have to be used to deal with NTE crimes. Quite often an NTE crime occurs concurrently with ASB, again influenced by the consumption and use of alcohol and or drugs. It is therefore a priory of SWCSP to reduce NTE crime and create an enjoyable environment within town centres for everyone who visits.
During 2016/17 3.91% of all recorded crime across south Worcestershire was related to the night time economy. This proportion however was different across the individual districts when compared against total district crime figures. The percentage of NTE was much higher in Worcester City (5.75%) and Wychavon (2.6%) but lower in Malvern Hills (0.6%). Of all NTE reports, 10.1% was recorded in Malvern Hills, 22.4% in Wychavon and 70.5% in Worcester City. Outside of Worcester City Centre, the largest source of NTE is from Evesham Town Centre. In both Worcester City Centre and Evesham Town centre, street pastors operate during the weekend night time economy. Their intervention is invaluable in assisting vulnerable persons and potentially diffusing situations that could lead towards anti-social and criminal behaviours.
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should continue to monitor the NTE noting the recent opening of Cathedral Square in Worcester
2. The SWCSP should continue to engage with Worcester and Evesham Street pastors to provide additional resource during the NTE.
3. The SWCSP should engage with local district economic development teams to enhance the NTE experience relating to crime and safety.
4. The SWCSP should engage with local licensing teams (WRS and WMP) to provide additional information and resource where appropriate.
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High Crime Areas
The top ten Lower super output areas (LSOA) for Crime across south Worcestershire are as follows; (names of the areas are indicative of a prominent location in that specific area).
The top 6 areas are located in the centre of the largest city and towns across South Worcestershire. The 1st and 2nd are in Worcester City, with the next two areas located in Evesham Town Centre. Victoria Park and Spring Lane includes the largest shopping area within Malvern Hills as well as Malvern Link High Street. Finally, Netherwich covers the centre of Droitwich Spa.
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Lower Super Output % Cumulative Locale Rank Area Name crime % crime Worcester Bus Station Area Worcester 1 6.68% 6.68% Lowesmoor Worcester 2 6.26% 12.94% Part of Abbey Park, Bridge Street Evesham 3 2.79% 15.72% Bewdley Road Evesham 4 1.64% 17.36% Victoria Park & Spring Lane Malvern Link 5 1.63% 18.99% Netherwich Droitwich Spa 6 1.52% 20.51% Ronkswood (Canterbury Road Area) Worcester 7 1.38% 21.89% Old Warndon, east of Cranham Drive Worcester 8 1.35% 23.24% Part of Wyld's Lane, Stanley Road Worcester 9 1.27% 24.51% Cherry Orchard Worcester 10 1.25% 25.76% Overall, the top ten Lower Super Output areas across south Worcestershire cumulatively account for just over 1 in 4 recorded crimes (25.76%). It is worth highlighting that this is spread out across both town and city urban centres as well as within residential suburban areas within the Worcester District. However, just over 1 in 5 recorded crimes (20.51%) come from within the centres of Worcester, Evesham, Droitwich Spa and Great Malvern.
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Within Great Malvern, ‘Victoria Park and Spring lane’ is clearly visible as the reddest area on the map, with the area to the south also a high crime ranking area. This area covers Pickersleigh Ward within Malvern Hills District. Within Victoria Park and Spring Lane, the most common crime committed is Shoplifting (31%), followed by common assault (10%).
In Droitwich Spa, the ‘Netherwich’ LSOA stands out, as does the ‘Berry Hill’ area to the neighbouring West [11]. The most common crime committed in ‘Netherwich’ is Shoplifting, followed by other theft not otherwise coded accounting for 44% of all crime. ‘Berry Hill’ itself is the 11th ranked area for crime across south Worcestershire and includes an industrial complex and half of the Droitwich West – Westlands estate.
Evesham has two clear high crime areas that cover either side of the centre of the town. Within the ‘Bewdley Road’ area (West side of high street [3]) the most common committed crime is malicious wounding and assault (33%) followed by shoplifting (15%). For ‘Part of Abbey Park, bridge Street’ [4] to the East of the high street, 25% of crime committed is shoplifting followed by similar amounts of assaults (16%) and criminal damages (13%). The proportions vary less in Abbey Park, potentially due to the environmental differences within the area. Approximately 50% of the area is a high street shopping area, with the remaining half the park and meadow areas in which Evesham Abbey and other leisure facilities are located.
Worcester City (left map next page) has multiple high crime (redder) areas which are reflected in the top ten table above. Across south Worcestershire, the two largest crime areas of demand are within Worcester City Centre (centre map) in which 13% of all recorded crime across south Worcestershire during 2016/17 occurred. Part of Wyld’s lane, Stanley Road [9] and Cherry Orchard [10] - as well as the aforementioned top 2, account for 4 of the 10 top areas for crime across south Worcestershire. Across the city district, 12 of the top 20 highest crime areas are within the city district and are numbers on the maps above. These 12 areas account for 22.3% of all recorded crime during 2016/17 across south Worcs. The map on the right shows the Warndon, Brickfields, Tolladine and Ronkswood estates within Worcester City.
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The map above covers the whole of the south Worcestershire area, showing the distribution of crime within every LSOA. Aside from the aforementioned areas above, there are two other notable red areas. Firstly; ‘Abbey Park’ [18] in Pershore, which covers the majority of the high street and central area of Pershore, and secondly; ‘Wychbold’ LSOA [19], (which covers the same area as Dodderhill Ward). Wychbold LSOA is the only area of the top 20 to be defined as a rural area. The village of Wychbold itself is a large estate North East of Droitwich Spa, directly next to Junction 5 of the M5 whilst the remaining majority of the ward has a few scattered hamlets. 29 | P a g e
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Crime per 100 persons
Lower Super Output Area Name Population Crime/100 Pers Another method of Lowesmoor 1256 103.1847 determining areas of high Worcester Bus Station Area 1450 95.37931 demand is to analyse the Part of Abbey Park, Bridge Street 2499 23.08924 number of crimes per Old Warndon, east of Cranham Drive 1248 22.35577 population in a given area. Victoria Park & Spring Lane 1663 20.32471 Using the LSOA areas and Cathedral Area 1298 17.87365 their known 2015 population Blackpole 1213 17.80709 figures, the table to the left Tolladine 1379 17.62146 shows the top ten areas for Bewdley Road 1975 17.16456 the number of crimes during Berry Hill 1527 16.37197 2016/17 occurring with the top 10 LSOA’s for every 100 persons within that area. Whilst we cannot assume that those persons who live within those given areas are the persons committing the crimes being recorded, we can infer that those persons are more likely to become victims of crime, or to be indirectly impacted upon by crime in their area (e.g. have an increased fear of crime, be a neighbour to a victim, etc.).
Crime per Indexes of Multiple Deprivations (IMD)
IMD Total No. of Avg./ % / 1400 25.00% Crime IMD's IMD IMD 1 1350 7 192.86 6.52% 1200 20.00% 2 4776 12 398.00 23.06% 1000 Avg per IMD 2a 12.96% 2679 2 1339.5 % Proportion 2b 2097 10 209.7 10.13% 800 15.00% 3 1301 8 162.63 6.28% 4 2639 16 164.94 12.74% 600 10.00% 5 3257 30 108.57 15.73% 400 6 2106 29 72.62 10.17% 5.00% 7 1328 19 69.89 6.41% 200 8 2114 28 75.50 10.21% 9 1265 25 50.60 6.11% 0 0.00% 1 2 2a 2b 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 574 12 47.83 2.77% Indexes of multiple deprivation measure provide a relative measure of deprivations on a smaller geographical level. Each areas is given a score from 1-10 with an area with a ranking of 1 having many factors of deprivation and a 10 meaning fewer factors of deprivation) (From data.gov.uk). For LSOA’s with an IMD of 2 it is worth noting that both ‘Worcester Bus Station area’ and ‘Lowesmoor’ have IMD’s of 2. Combined, these areas account for 56.1% of all crime within all IMD 2 areas. The graph above shows the collective proportion of crime occurring within each IMD area as a whole. IMD 2 is further split into the following to enable more focused analysis; 2a: ‘Worcester Bus Station area’ and ‘Lowesmoor’, 2B: all other IMD 2 areas. (The collective percentage amount of all IMD’s on the table will equate to more than 100% due the splitting of 2 into 2a and 2b).
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South Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership areas with an IMD of 5 have seen a large amount of crime (2nd largest), the larger number of IMD 5 LSAO’s bring down the average amount within each area. The red bar chart shows a general trend whereby as the IMD score increases the total amount of recorded crime decreases. Exceptional areas to this trend are IMD’s 1, 5 and 8.
Recommendations
1. Local Operational groups of the SWCSP consider allocating resources to areas of high crime demand where appropriate to do so.
2. The SWCSP should engage with Victim Support Services across south Worcestershire to ensure that all victims of crime are signposted to support that is available to them.
3. The SWCSP should analyse the types of crimes commonly committed across each LSOA area to target resources and campaigns appropriately using pre-existing demographic information.
Data Gaps
Health Data
Membership of the SWCSP includes representation from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for Worcestershire. An issue that has been approached before regards CCG attendance at SWCSP meetings and subsequent information sharing. The SWCSP has previously made attempts to engage with the CCG regarding potential community safety data relating to; alcohol related admissions, mental health concerns, and admissions for assault, amongst other areas. No information has been forthcoming, leaving a large gap in community safety knowledge related to those issues. Such issues cut across all three priorities
Recommendations
1. The SWCSP should continue to engage with the CCG and establish what information should and could be shared amongst the partnership.
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