OFFICIAL: This document should be used by members for partner agencies and police purposes only. If you wish to use any data from this document in external reports please request this through Birmingham Community Safety Partnership URN Date Issued CSP-SA-02 v3 11/02/2019 Customer/Issued To: Head of Community Safety, Birmingham Birmi ngham Community Safety Partnership Strategic Assessment 2019 The profile is produced and owned by West Midlands Police, and shared with our partners under statutory provisions to effectively prevent crime and disorder. The document is protectively marked at OFFICIAL but can be subject of disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or Criminal Procedures and Investigations Act 1996. There should be no unauthorised disclosure of this document outside of an agreed readership without reference to the author or the Director of Intelligence for WMP. Crown copyright © and database rights (2019) Ordnance Survey West Midlands Police licence number 100022494 2019. Reproduced by permission of Geographers' A-Z Map Co. Ltd. © Crown Copyright 2019. All rights reserved. Licence number 100017302. 1 Page OFFICIAL OFFICIAL: This document should be used by members for partner agencies and police purposes only. If you wish to use any data from this document in external reports please request this through Birmingham Community Safety Partnership Contents Key Findings .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Reducing Violence and Reoffending .............................................................................................................. 5 Crime, ASB and Community .......................................................................................................................... 5 Victims and Vulnerability ............................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Total Recorded Crime ................................................................................................................................... 8 Crime Rate ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Crime Trends ............................................................................................................................................... 10 Emerging Crimes .......................................................................................................................................... 11 An overview of Birmingham’s Geographic Areas of Focus for Total Recorded Crime ............................... 13 Indices of Multiple Deprivation ................................................................................................................... 13 Distribution of Crime across Birmingham by Neighbourhood .................................................................... 15 Distribution of calls for service across the city ............................................................................................ 17 Distribution of Birmingham’s Crime Severity .............................................................................................. 19 Long Term Active Areas (LTAAs) ................................................................................................................. 21 Stockland Green and Erdington – Taken from WMP Strategic and Development Document .................... 21 Sparkbrook and Sparkhill – Taken from WMP Strategic and Development Document .............................. 22 Stratford Road – Sparkbrook (Hotspot 1) ................................................................................................ 23 Stratford Road – South (Hotspot 2) ......................................................................................................... 23 Ladypool Road (Hotspot 3) ...................................................................................................................... 23 Birmingham City Centre – Taken from WMP Strategic and Development Document ............................... 23 Next Stage .................................................................................................................................................... 24 Community Issues....................................................................................................................................... 25 Geographic coverage of survey ............................................................................................................... 28 Victims ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Profiling Victims ........................................................................................................................................... 29 Age ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 Repeat Victimisation.................................................................................................................................... 31 Geographical Profile of Victims ................................................................................................................... 33 Case Study of a Repeat Victim and the Cost of Crime ............................................................................. 34 Offenders .................................................................................................................................................... 36 Geographic profile of offenders .................................................................................................................. 36 2 Profiling offenders ....................................................................................................................................... 38 Page Age ............................................................................................................................................................... 38 OFFICIAL OFFICIAL: This document should be used by members for partner agencies and police purposes only. If you wish to use any data from this document in external reports please request this through Birmingham Community Safety Partnership Ethnicity ....................................................................................................................................................... 40 Repeat Offenders ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Motivations and Drivers .............................................................................................................................. 42 Detections .................................................................................................................................................... 43 Volume crime detections ............................................................................................................................ 43 Case Study of a Repeat Offender and the Cost of Crime ........................................................................ 45 Areas of Vulnerability ................................................................................................................................. 46 Violence ....................................................................................................................................................... 47 Injury Surveillance data ........................................................................................................................... 47 Youth violence ......................................................................................................................................... 48 Knife crime ............................................................................................................................................... 50 Gun Crime ................................................................................................................................................ 51 Domestic Violence ................................................................................................................................... 51 Rape and Sexual Offences ....................................................................................................................... 53 Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) Local Profiles ..................................................................................... 54 Hidden Crimes ............................................................................................................................................. 55 Child Sexual Exploitation ......................................................................................................................... 55 Honour Based Abuse, Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation ................................................ 55 Modern Slavery ....................................................................................................................................... 57 Substance misuse .......................................................................................................................................