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Local Police Plan 2020 - 23
“Working together for a thriving and connected
Renfrewshire, creating opportunities for all”
K – Renfrewshire
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Planning framework
The Chief Constable has responsibility for the policing of Scotland
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Contents
Foreword 4
Policing on a page 5
How we identified our priorities 6
Local Outcome Improvement Plan – Renfrewshire 7
Our priorities - What you told us 8
Plan on a page 9
Our priorities in detail
Serious Organised Crime 10
Protecting vulnerable people 11
Antisocial behaviour, violence and disorder 12
Road safety & road crime 13
Acquisitive crime 14
Counter terrorism and domestic extremism I5
Online and cybercrime 16
How we will achieve our outcomes 17
Accountability and performance 18
Equalities 20
Contact Us 21
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Foreword
Police Scotland’s purpose is to Much has changed since the
improve the safety and compilation of the last report in
wellbeing of people, places and 2016, as such we have re-
communities in Scotland, examined our priorities in order
focusing on Keeping People to respond to new challenges.
Safe in line with our values of
Integrity, Fairness and Respect. In developing our Local Policing
Plans for 2020-23 we consulted
The Service is led by Chief widely with our stakeholders -
Constable Iain Livingstone QPM, the public, partner agencies
who has overall responsibility for and our staff. Accordingly, we
policing in Scotland in developed our plans which
accordance with the Police and identify our goals for the next
Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. three years, these plans will
As well as being responsible for address priorities and tackle the
providing the best possible things that you identified as
police service to the people of mattering to you most.
Scotland, he must designate
local policing commanders and This plan builds on the strong
ensure that adequate foundations already in place,
arrangements are in place for with a continuing emphasis on
the policing of each local road safety, thefts, drug misuse,
authority area. disorder and crimes of violence.
As the local policing I am pleased to have seen
commander for Renfrewshire significant improvements in how
and Inverclyde I am pleased to we protect vulnerable people,
introduce the Renfrewshire such as the introduction in 2019
Local Policing Plan (LPP) 2020- of the ‘Navigator’ programme.
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However there is still progress to
I was proud to be appointed be made and with the
Divisional Commander of introduction of the Contact
Renfrewshire and Inverclyde in Assessment Model (CAM)
September 2019 and I would examining the ‘Threat and Risk’
firstly like to thank my of each call I would expect to
predecessor Chief see continued improvements in
Superintendent Gordon Crossan this and other areas.
(now retired) for his commitment
and dedication to policing this We will continue to work hard to
area before my arrival in post. increase public and partner
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satisfaction within policing, if we
get it wrong, we will learn and
when we get it right, we will
strive to build on our success.
I look forward to delivering this
plan and to providing you with
regular updates.
Alan Murray
Chief Superintendent,
Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
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66
Police
652 Scotland
Police Officers 2 Youth
Local Volunteers
Authorities
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Special
Constables
264,500
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Population
Support
Staff
754
Miles of Roads
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How we identified our
priorities
As part of our planning Community consultations.
approach we undertook a
period of engagement - `Your View Counts’ 2019
throughout 2019 to allow the public and partner survey.
public and our partners to
provide feedback to us - ‘Your Police’ 2019 public
regarding our strategic direction and partner survey.
and the content of this plan.
- ‘Your Home, Your Street,
This feedback was captured Our Community’ surveys.
and used to shape the final
version of the plan. Further Renfrewshire Community
information about this and our Planning Partnership Local
wider engagement can be Outcome Improvement
found in our consultation hub at: Plan 2017-27
https://consult.scotland.police.u
k/ Police Scotland’s Annual
Police Plan
The priorities and outcomes
referenced in this plan were Policing for a safe,
identified through a number of protected and resilient
sources and processes which Scotland, the Joint
include: Strategy for Policing
(2020)
Police Scotland’s
Strategic Assessment All of these sources have
2020-23 for Renfrewshire & provided critical information in
Inverclyde Division which identifying what is important to
details threats that impact the diverse communities within
on Policing at both Renfrewshire and as such we
divisional and Local have structured our resources to
Authority level. meet these demands.
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Local Outcome
Improvement Plan -
Renfrewshire
The ‘Our Renfrewshire’ 2017- This plan is intrinsically aligned
2027 Community Plan acts as to the Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire's Local Outcome Community Planning
Improvement Plan (LOIP). Partnership LOIP 2017-2027.
It is published by the The priorities for policing
Renfrewshire Community identified within this plan will,
Planning Partnership, as when achieved, contribute to
required by the Community the success of the LOIP, and
Empowerment (Scotland) Act the ultimately the strategic
2015. vision for the Renfrewshire
area.
Please visit this site for further
details:
http://www.renfrewshire.gov.u
k/communityplan
LOIP priorities:
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Our priorities – policing on
a page
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Our vision: Policing for a safe, protected and resilient Scotland
Our purpose: Improve the safety and wellbeing of people, places and communities
Our Values: Fairness, Integrity, Respect, Human Rights
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Our priorities in detail
a key area in which we as a
division work collaboratively with
SERIOUS
ORGANISED partners, providing support and
CRIME signposting services which may
assist them break free from the
circumstances in which they find
Reduce the harm themselves.
caused by serious
organised crime We are also working closely with
including drugs supply partners to reduce the numbers
of drug related deaths in the
division.
Serious Organised Crime (SOC) Overall intention
takes many forms, many of
which affect the communities in Increase the number of
Renfrewshire. referrals to drug and alcohol
services yearly
The exploitation of vulnerable
people by those who supply Target suppliers of controlled
controlled drugs is one aspect of drugs
SOC which many people are
aware of. Identify and support victims of
SOC
Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
Division is committed to pursuing Police and partner aims - LOIP
those responsible for supplying Outcomes
controlled drugs throughout the
area through our local drugs Work to reduce the number
initiatives and to working with of drug related deaths within
partners to support those the division.
exploited by organised crime
groups. Increase uptake of drug
treatment, through liaison
Those with addiction problems with partnership access
often find themselves in situations points.
which are hard to escape. This is
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Domestic related crime.
PROTECTING
VULNERABLE There is growing evidence of
PEOPLE human traffickers targeting and
exploiting the most vulnerable,
Support people as well as concerns that
considered vulnerable vulnerable migrants could be
through working with exploited for the purpose of
partners to reduce Serious and Organised Crime
harm related to Drugs supply.
Overall intention
Managing the more vulnerable
Identify and support people
members of our community in an
considered vulnerable
effective way will allow both the
through working with partners
police and other partner
to reduce harm
agencies to work together to
provide a better-quality service,
reduce problems that arise Police and partner aims - LOIP
repeatedly and help reduce Outcomes
demand on services.
Improve recognition within
The police and other statutory the division of mental health
partners have a critical role in distress leading to referral
protecting vulnerable people pathways into appropriate
from abuse and exploitation. support agencies.
Partner agencies in Renfrewshire Provide access to
and Inverclyde meet regularly to appropriate care and
discuss how the vulnerable can support for those in contact
be safeguarded from harm. with the criminal justice
system.
Victims of domestic abuse
remain one of K Divisions top Increase awareness of
priorities. Newly introduced ‘hidden’ forms of abuse
crimes associated with ‘coercive including coercive control,
and controlling behaviour’ stalking, harassment and work
(commonly referred to as to improve criminal justice
coercive control) will afford the outcomes for the victims who
Police greater opportunities for experience such.
intervention in matters of
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Violent offending also remains a
ANTISOCIAL concern, it is imperative that we
BEHAVIOUR, take positive action to address
VIOLENCE AND violent crime, particularly in
DISORDER
regard to the carrying and use of
AND knives.
Engage with the public
DISORDER
and communities to We will commit to ensuring that
reduce and prevent the criminal justice system is as
crime effective as it can be in turning
lives around and stopping
people offending, or
reoffending. We will also
Anti-social behaviour can have
continue to support early
a significant impact on a victim’s
intervention initiatives and
quality of life. Increasing the
awareness raising in order to
confidence of our communities
reduce crime and make our
around this issue is very
communities safer.
important, as is providing
reassurance that it is an issue
which is taken seriously. Overall intention
However, this is not an issue
which the police can tackle on Engage with the public,
their own: it takes a partnership communities and partners to
approach involving the reduce and prevent crime.
community and a range of
agencies.
Police and partner aims - LOIP
Outcomes
There are a range of powers and
options available to partner Provide victims of anti-social
organisations to tackle the issue behaviour who feel targeted
of anti-social behaviour and we and all vulnerable victims with
will work with our partners and support and real
the community to utilise the understanding.
options available to ensure that
anti-social behaviour continues Work with partner
to fall, and that public organisations to efficiently
confidence in relation to this tackle anti-social behaviour
issue improves. and to meet the demands of
local communities.
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ROAD Overall intention
SAFETY AND
ROAD CRIME Collaborate to reduce
casualties and crime on our
Collaborate to reduce roads.
casualties and crime
on our roads Police and partner aims - LOIP
Outcomes
Commitment to effective
divisional policing of roads
Road safety remains a key leading to improved road
concern for the public across the safety.
division. People are particularly
concerned about speeding Ensure that specialist services
vehicles, and dangerous driving. are shared and delivered in
the most effective way across
Education is a key tool in making national and divisional
our roads safer and our division boundaries.
will continue to support both
proactive initiatives and Utilise the new technologies
educational campaigns. that are now available to
divisional officers such as
We will ensure that both Police Automatic Number Plate
and partners address road Recognition (ANPR) that
safety concerns, especially provide opportunities for
amongst vulnerable groups such preventing and detecting
as younger people, cyclists and road crime.
pedestrians.
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Our division will continue to work
ACQUISITIVE with partner agencies to ensure
CRIME high risk and high harm
offenders across the acquisitive
crime spectrum are being
Reduce crime through managed appropriately.
preventing offending
and reducing Overall intention
re-offending
Reduce acquisitive crime
through preventing
offending and reducing re-
offending.
Theft and especially
housebreaking are crimes which
can have a profound personal Police and partner aims - LOIP
impact. Outcomes
They are crimes in which alcohol Commitment to work with
and drug misuse feature highly. criminal justice partners on
processes to identify and
Reducing re-offending requires refer individuals in contact
tackling drivers of crime, such as with the criminal justice
the use and supply of illicit system into appropriate
substances. support services.
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COUNTER TERRORISM within the prison estate and
AND DOMESTIC other vulnerable groups in
EXTREMISM relation to the risk of
radicalisation.
Prevent, Pursue, Protect We will continue to engage with
and Prepare communities across our division
through collaborative to understand concerns,
preparedness reassure, and raise awareness of
counterterrorism measures.
The Government’s CONTEST Local policing within
strategy (Prevent, Pursue, Protect Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
and Prepare) shapes our Division is integral to minimising
national response to counter- the risk of terrorism by preventing
terrorism. radicalisation, protecting public
places, transport systems and
An important approach to critical infrastructure from attack.
preventing radicalisation,
extremism and terrorism is the Overall intention
PREVENT strategy.
Prevent, Pursue, Protect and
The CONTEST strategy is Prepare for Terrorism and
designed to safeguard Domestic Extremism through
individuals, and vulnerable collaborative preparedness.
people in particular from
exploitation from extremists.
Police and partner aims - LOIP
PREVENT training is delivered to Outcomes
front-line professionals in contact
with vulnerable people, such as Coordinated public
education, health, social services awareness messages,
and police. campaigns and approaches
by police and partner
This strategy builds on work agencies tackling terrorism
demonstrating that local and domestic extremism.
communities can help to
prevent and protect themselves Better engagement and
from radicalisation. information sharing between
police and partner
There are identified concerns in organisations to support the
relation to exploitation of those vulnerable with the aim of
with mental health issues, those preventing exploitation.
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As such a greater emphasis will
CYBER AND need to be made on raising
awareness among young
DIGITAL CRIME
people, their parents and other
vulnerable adults on the
Address the threat from potential dangers of cybercrime.
online and cybercrime
through education and Overall intention
liaison with specialist
resources Address the threat from
online and cyber-crime
through education, liaison
with specialist resources and
Cybercrime has grown
detecting offenders.
dramatically as the internet and
social media provide the
opportunity to commit crime Police and partner aims - LOIP
and enable some crime types to Outcomes
be committed on a vast scale.
Continue the coordinated
Cybercrimes such as grooming, approach by police and
child sexual exploitation, fraud, partner agencies to improve
data theft, phishing, trolling, public awareness of
malware, online scams, revenge measures to protect
pornography, stalking, and themselves from cybercrime,
harassment are all on the rise. particularly targeting those
most at risk.
However much of this criminality
still remains unreported, Improved use of technology
unrecorded and as a result the by police, in order to prevent
extent of it may not be fully crime and support earlier
understood. intervention with offenders
such as the recent
Much of this crime is preventable introduction of cyber kiosks.
by implementing simple safety
measures.
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How we will achieve our
outcomes-working together
Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership revised its governance
arrangements in 2016 in order to reflect the requirements of the
Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) 2015 and changes that
have emerged over years to partnership working structures in
Renfrewshire.
The main partnership groups that drive forward the delivery of the
Community Plan are:
Improving Life Chances Board
Economic Leadership Panel This is a new group which will be
This group informs Renfrewshire’s established to take forward
Economic Framework, with partnership work around life
members across the private and chances and inequalities.
public sector, with a strong
focus on Renfrewshire’s business Forum for Empowering
community. Communities
This group provides a key link
Health and Social Care Strategic between the Community
Planning Group Planning Partnership, the third
This group is part of the Health sector in Renfrewshire, and our
and Social Care Partnership’s communities.
governance arrangements, and
reports directly to the Health Community Planning Partnership
and Social Care Integrated Executive Group
Joint Board. Chaired by the Chief Executive
of Renfrewshire Council and
Community Protection Chief comprised of Chief Executive
Officers Group level officers across the
This group brings together the Partnership.
Chief Officers of organisations
across Renfrewshire with public Community Planning Partnership
protection role. Connected to Oversight Group
this, there is also a Member Chaired by the Leader of
Officer Group’ which brings Renfrewshire Council, and
together elected members and comprising conveners of the
key officers, and has a scrutiny Council’s policy boards and a
role. member of the Opposition
Group.
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Accountability and
performance
Effective scrutiny and oversight designed to ensure that Police
are key elements to ensure that Scotland provides a service that
policing retains the trust and is relevant, legitimate and
confidence of the communities consistent with the principle of
of Scotland. The governance ‘policing by consent’.
structures outlined below are
Scottish Police Authority (SPA)
Police Scotland presents Please visit this site for further
quarterly performance reports details:
to the SPA, informed by our http://www.spa.police.uk/meeti
performance framework, ngs-events
providing evidence relating to
the delivery of the outcomes Crime and performance
and objectives within the Police statistics are also published by
Scotland Annual Police Plan. the SPA. Please visit this site for
further details:
These updates are presented at http://www.spa.police.uk/perfor
SPA full board meetings and mancepages/spaperformancefr
available online. amework/
Justice Sub-Committee on Policing
Key policing issues are discussed Please visit this site for further
by the Scottish Parliament’s details:
Justice Sub-Committee on http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Stat
Policing. istics/Browse/Crime-Justice
Please visit this site for further
details:
http://www.parliament.scot/parl
iamentarybusiness/CurrentCom
mittees/policingsub-
committee.aspx
Crime and Justice statistics are
published by Scottish
Government.
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Renfrewshire Council Scrutiny Please visit this site for further
Each of Scotland’s local details:
authorities also have scrutiny
arrangements in place to allow http://renfrewshire.gov.uk/coun
them to influence policing at a cilboards
local level.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of
This successful partnership Constabulary in Scotland
between local authorities and (HMICS)
local Police Scotland divisions is HMICS provides independent
evident in the close working scrutiny of both Police Scotland
relationships within Community and the SPA to ensure they
Planning Partnerships and other deliver services that are high
local planning arrangements. quality, continually improving,
effective and responsive to
In respect of Renfrewshire local needs.
Council, this is conducted via
the ‘Police and Fire & Rescue Police Investigation and Review
Scrutiny Sub-Committee’. Commissioner (PIRC)
It has the remit of considering The PIRC undertakes
matters relating to the police independent investigations into
service, including the Council's the most serious incidents
involvement with the Scottish involving the police and
Police Authority and Police provides independent scrutiny
Scotland, and arrangements for of the way police bodies
local policing. This includes the operating in Scotland respond
Council's contribution to the to complaints from the public.
development and
implementation of the Local
Policing Plan.
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Equalities
Police Scotland promotes rights in all of our strategies,
equality and diversity, both plans and in our performance
externally and internally, striving framework.
to exceed the requirements of
the Scottish Public Sector The communities we serve in
Equality Duty. Renfrewshire and Inverclyde are
increasingly diverse and
Across Police Scotland we are complex, necessitating a more
committed to developing and sophisticated response to the
promoting best practice in the challenges we face both now
advancement of our Equality and in the future.
Outcomes.
Whether it be domestic abuse,
In order to support this cybercrime or new threats from
requirement, we embed serious and organised crime like
equality, diversity and human human trafficking.
Equality and Human
Rights Impact Assessment
Equality and Human Rights In compliance with the Scottish
Impact Assessment (EqHRIA) is Public Sector Equality Duty, a
used to help us to ensure that summary of EqHRIA results has
policy and practices proactively been published alongside this
consider the potential impact document on our website:
on equality and human rights. http://www.scotland.police.uk
This plan was subject to an
EqHRIA.
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Contact us
Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Division Police Headquarters
Police Scotland
Paisley Police Station
Mill Street
Paisley
PA1 1JU
We want to hear from you
Police Scotland is committed to continuous improvement in all that we
do. If you have something to tell us about this plan or our service,
please contact us at: https://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us
We are here to help
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and other services that Police
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centre on 101.
If you would like this information in
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you wish to discuss, you can contact Text (NGT) on 18001, 101 for non-
your local Community Policing Team emergency, or 18000 in an
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