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Policing in Waltham Forest: performance

July 19, 2017 Policing/crime

This post turns from its predecessor’s focus on police priorities to police performance. For reasons that are unclear, the most up to date figures borough by borough on number of offences and related sanction detection rates (SDRs) are no longer widely circulated, but some careful searching has unearthed the table appended below. The series therein largely speak for themselves, and paint a rather uninspiring picture. In fact, focusing on the 41 Waltham Forest SDRs for 2016-17 (the extreme right hand column), 34, or 83 per cent, are worse than in the preceding year. And placing Waltham Forest in a relative perspective only marginally modifies the overall impression. Again focusing on the 2016... »

Policing in Waltham Forest: priorities

July 19, 2017 Gang Prevention Programme, Policing/crime

Following on from my series about knife crime, this and the succeeding post look at wider aspects of policing in Waltham Forest. A sensible starting point is police priorities. Under Mayor Johnson, the focus was on the so called Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) Seven – violence with injury, robbery, burglary, vandalism (criminal damage), theft from the person, theft of motor vehicles, and theft from motor vehicles. However, shortly after taking office, Mayor Khan introduced some important changes. The previous system, it was argued, had imposed an inflexible and centrally determined model, ignoring the variations on the ground. A better approach was to focus on ‘the things that ... »

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John Cryer MP and Labour’s endemic anti-semitism UPDATED

July 7, 2017 anti-semitism, John Cryer MP

There is a sobering post on the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s website, here https://antisemitism.uk/three-months-after-107-labour-mps-issued-an-ultimatum-to-expel-livingstone-the-labour-party-remains-a-dystopia-for-jews/ which looks at what has happened – or rather not happened – since Ken Livingston advised the world that ‘Hitler was supporting Zionism’. And for some reason, this got me thinking about my old friend, John Cryer, MP. Because though 107 Labour MPs (including Stella Creasy) responded to Mr. Livingston by expressing their disgust, and declaring ‘We stand with the Jewish community and British society against this insidious racism‘,... »

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Petition to Waltham Forest Council: publish the fire safety plans for Fred Wigg & John Walsh towers

July 7, 2017 Uncategorized

 A petition has been started to persuade LBWF to publish the fire safety plans for the Fred Wigg and John Walsh towers in Cann Hall: It is really disgraceful, given all that has gone on both locally and of course in west London, to find the residents of the towers still having to resort to these kind of tactics to obtain basic information about their safety. To sign the petition, go here: https://www.change.org/p/waltham-forest-council-waltham-forest-council-publish-fire-safety-plans-for-fred-wigg-john-walsh-towers?recruiter=26274686&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=autopublish »

Knife crime in Waltham Forest: a nasty little scandal (5)

July 5, 2017 Cllr. Liaquat Ali, Gang Prevention Programme, Policing/crime

I hear from reliable sources that some of those community representatives who are currently listed on LBWF’s website as members of the Waltham Forest Safer Neighbourhoods Board (WFSNB) are both astonished and perturbed that their names have been made public, since they have never given permission for this to happen, and in addition claim that they have neither received any briefing about their supposed roles and responsibilities, nor even met anyone who has authority for the outfit’s functioning. Their reactions are entirely reasonable. For it is axiomatic that those who stand up to be counted, and then become involved in detailed discussions behind closed doors which touch upon policing and... »

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