Public Document Pack ROYTON, SHAW & CROMPTON DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP Agenda Date Monday 1 October 2012 Time 6.00 pm Venue Royton Youth Centre, Chapel Road, Royton, Oldham, OL2 5QL Notes 1. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST - If a Member requires advice on any item involving a possible declaration of interest which could affect his/her ability to speak and/or vote he/she is advised to contact Paul Entwistle or Angela McIntyre at least 24 hours before the meeting. 2. CONTACT OFFICER for this Agenda is Angela McIntyre Tel. 0161 770 5151 or email [email protected] 3. NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGER is Liz Fryman tel. 0161 770 5161 or email [email protected] 4. PUBLIC QUESTIONS - Any member of the public wishing to ask a question at the above meeting can do so only if a copy of the question has been received by the contact officer prior to the commencement of the meeting. MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYTON, SHAW & CROMPTON DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP IS AS FOLLOWS: Councillors Alcock, Bashforth, Blyth, O Chadderton, J Dillon, P Dillon, P Harrison, Judge, Larkin (Chair), Sykes and Williamson Item No 1 Apologies For Absence 2 Urgent Business Urgent business, if any, introduced by the Chair 3 Declarations of Interest To Receive Declarations of Interest in any Contract or matter to be discussed at the meeting. Public Questions 4 Public Question Time To receive Questions from the Public, in accordance with the Council’s Constitution. Partner Updates and Discussions 5 Neighbourhood Police Team (Pages 1 - 4) Update on Neighbourhood Policing Report 6 Highways (Pages 5 - 8) An update to the District Partnership about works undertaken by Highways. 7 District Youth Forum To be provided at the District Partnership meeting District Executive 8 Oldham Council Budget Conversation To be discussed at District Partnership 9 District Co ordinators Report (Pages 9 - 16) To inform the District Partnership of current activities and issues and make decisions where indicated. 10 Minutes of Previous Meeting (Pages 17 - 20) The Minutes of the meeting held on 17 th July 2012 are attached for approval. 11 Royton, Shaw & Crompton Community Forum Report (Pages 21 - 30) To update the District Partnership on the discussions and notes from the Community Forum meetings, Shaw & Crompton held on 11th September 2012, Royton held on 17th September 2012 12 Petitions for Noting This is a standing item relating to Petitions received relating to the Royton, Shaw & Crompton area, for consideration by the District Partnership in accordance with the Council’s Petitions Scheme. No eligible petitions have been received. 13 Date of Next Meeting The next meeting of the Royton, Shaw and Crompton District Partnership will take place on Tuesday 20 th November 2012 commencing at 6.00pm. Agenda Item 5 DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP REPORT – September 2011 What has been happening within the Royton and Shaw Neighbourhood Policing Team since the last District Partnership? Since the last meeting the Royton and Shaw Policing Team along with our partners have been working hard to keep the community safe. Comparison Figures 30 th June -13 th September 201 1 30 th June -13 th September 201 2 Robbery 7 4 Burglary Dwelling 32 25 Vehicle Crime 40 (Includes theft of / from motor 27 vehicles) Violent crime 69 74 (includes serious wounding, GBH, and sexual assault ) Robbery, burglary dwelling and vehicle crime is showing a reduction. Violent crime is showing an increase. Much of the teams focus has been working on Operation Celestine since the tragic explosion on 26 th June 2012. Officers have assisted on the initial crime scene preservation and assisting with passing key messages to residents. The focus then moved to assisting with the criminal investigation and collation of statements of evidence. The investigation has so far led to Andrew Partington (born 17/10/1984), formerly of Buckley Street, Shaw, being charged with manslaughter and criminal damage. A number of criminal damage offences have been reported to Police where a BB gun or similar has been used to smash windows on vehicles and properties. Two people have been arrested and are on Police bail pending further enquiries an air weapon has been recovered, the incidents have since stopped. Page 1 Anti Social behaviour Shaw has been experiencing a high level of Anti social behaviour reports over the summer, in particular the Queen Street area. The team put together a patrol plan in order to address this along with a number of incidents at the library. As a result a cohort of individuals have been identified and the partnership are working together to establish what interventions are required for each individual. Some of the lower level will require warning where others will need enforcement action. The YIP and Integrated youth team are paying a part attempting to divert some of them in to more positive activities. One of our Royton PCSO’s managed to secure some funding in order to divert some of the young people over the summer period in to martial arts classes. This has resulted in a notable drop of reported anti social behaviour incidents on the Holly estate. Work is ongoing to try and secure further funding for some more equipment to try and divert some older teenagers. A dedicated anti social behaviour car was introduced over the summer months to visit the anti social behaviour hot spot areas. This was done the previous year as a dedicated resource with district partnership funding and worked well with some pleasing results. The vehicle could not be diverted due to the funding stream. However this year unfortunately the vehicle was often diverted to other incidents leaving many of the areas not covered. When the team managed to complete the patrols they seized alcohol and cannabis from the identified locations. It is pleasing that all partners including district councillors have been pro active in informing the Police of reports of anti social behaviour and troubled families. Serious acquisitive crime offences You may recall operation Wizard that was set up last year to concentrate on serious acquisitive crime offences. Part of that operation was about disrupting offenders who we know are involved in this type of crime. This was so successful we now have difficulty nominating five people who commit this type of crime in our neighbourhood. As a result we have extended this process to include individuals who cause our neighbourhood the most harm. You will see from the breakdown of figures above that serious acquisitive crime has reduced when compared with the same period last year. This does not mean we should be complacent in our approach to dealing with this crime type. We have discovered that many of the offences are committed by people who travel from other districts to our neighbourhood. As a result we have ensured that active automatic number plate recognition operations are part of the plan to tackle travelling criminals. We ran an operation on Broadway in the first week of September where intelligence was gathered and several vehicles seized. Page 2 The team have run three separate anti number plate theft initiatives over the summer. This has led to over 200 vehicles having anti theft number plate screws fitted. They have also attended numerous events to promote crime prevention advice. Officers have been deployed on Market days to the precinct and Shaw centre to reduce theft from person offences. This has been hugely successful and funding was sort to purchase security key chains and bells that have since been distributed. Violent Crime As you can see violent crime continues to increase on our neighbourhood. Many of these offences that have been recorded are because officers are pro actively dealing with domestic violence offences. What has been noted is a portion of the crimes relate to young people on young people of school age. As a result the team have commenced before and after school patrols to try and prevent any incidents occurring and to engage with staff at the school’s as well as pupils and parents. We have had some excellent feedback so far on these additional patrols. The officers will be going in to schools and engaging pupils in dialogue around violent crime and in particular knife crime. Licensed premises have seen an improvement over the last twelve months in particular Oddies that had been problematic with violent offences now has no recorded assaults since January 2012. Public confidence and awareness Confidence in the Police service remains high for our neighbourhood. The Police station is closed to the public at Royton. However officers still work from the station and respond to public concerns when required. We have recently set up a Facebook page and have a number of followers who access information on what is happening in the neighbourhood. We hope to build on this communication tool over the next few months. Drug Trafficking and manufacture Drug abuse remains a priority for the team to tackle, over the last few months the officers have executed several warrants and seized thousands of pounds worth of cannabis. We currently have a number of people on bail for production of cannabis and conspiracy to Import heroin. Page 3 This page is intentionally left blank Page 4 Agenda Item 6 BRIEFING TO THE CROMPTON, ROYTON AND SHAW DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP Report Author: David Dalrymple Date of meeting: 1st October 2012 What the issue is: The briefing provides an update to the District Partnership about works undertaken by Highways. Crompton DP Year 1 Rishworth Rise was raised and agreed by Cllr Wingate (ward representative) Total DP Spend - £14,000 DP Year 2 Frederick Avenue and Hesketh Avenue were raised and agreed by Cllr Wingate (ward representative) Total DP Spend - £49,000 DP Year 3 Brandon Crescent (£24,000) is greater than available budget, therefore may have to reconsider either scope of scheme or a different scheme.