Decision details

The Board received a presentation on the Performance Dashboard from the Community Safety Team. Mr Leng noted that an updated version was published with the agenda.

Mr Ben Norfolk reported:

·         the levels of burglary, robbery and violent crime in Barnet had reduced since the previous year. There had been an increase in gun discharges, to ten, over the past year.

·         there is an error in the document - there had been a 7% decrease in domestic violence (DV) and violence with injury compared to the previous 12 months, rather than 7% increase. 

·         there had been a 34% increase in the total number of repeat anti-social behaviour (ASB) calls and total ASB calls had increased by 8% compared to the previous 12 months.

Fiona Bateman noted that the Safeguarding Adults Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) had reported a rise in domestic abuse. She asked whether Barnet’s data showed a decrease because cases were being directed for intervention.

Inspector Ishtiaq reported that there had been an increase in reported DV since lockdown, and the Metropolitan Police has increased its resources to deal with this and to work with repeat victims. He had no data at the meeting on the impact of this intervention but would look into this and report back.

Action: Inspector Ishtiaq

Ms Green asked what the likely reason for the significant increase in ASB was. Inspector Ishtiaq responded that there had been an increase in ASB in general across London and this had a lot do with the frustrations caused by lockdown. The Metropolitan Police is trying to make sure that information on cases where there were vulnerable repeat victims is recorded, and is also monitoring typical locations where ASB is prevalent so that it can ensure that systems are in place to deal with this. Inspector Ishtiaq added that Covid breaches are also logged as ASB so it is expected that numbers would decrease as restrictions eased.