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Serious youth violence
and knife crime plan
2018/19
Targeting Supporting
lawbreakers victims
Offering key themes Standing with
ways of our communities
out of crime action plan against crime
Keeping Protecting
deadly weapons and educating
off our streets young peopleKnife crime Action plan 1
Foreword from Introduction
Hammersmith & Fulham Council Reducing knife crime related
injuries and community concerns
We do not accept that crime and violence is a
around knife crime is a key
foregone conclusion for any young person in
priority for us, our partners and
Hammersmith & Fulham, regardless of their
Community.
circumstances. As a council, we are redoubling
partnership efforts to divert young people at risk of We recognise that in addition
offending away from a life impacted by crime. The to catching knife offenders and
government has slashed police funding and, as we deterring young persons from
prioritise the safety of our residents, we have stepped carrying knives, victims of knife
in and funded the largest-ever number crime, their families, and our wider
of council-funded police officers. community need support.
We need a thoughtful, joined-up approach both This Action Plan underpins both
to crime and to its causes. Our policies on the local the Mayor of London’s ambition to
economy, education and social inclusion are designed “drive knife crime out of London”
to crack down on the causes of crime. through his 2017 ‘London Knife
Crime Strategy’, and our own 2017
Through this action plan, we set out a comprehensive
‘H&F Vision’ to create a borough
plan of partnership activity to tackle the immediate
for residents that is “safe, clean
threat to safety posed by knife crime in Hammersmith
and green.”
& Fulham.
The intersections between gang-
In this Action Plan we set out how we will support
related crime and knife-related
communities as they stand up against knife crime.
crime are further outlined in
We will provide effective help for young people who
our Ending Gang Violence and
are involved in gangs, or at risk of becoming gang
Exploitation Partnership Strategy
members. We will identify pathways for young people
(2016-2021).
to steer them away from criminality, alongside taking
enforcement action with partners to get dangerous
individuals and weapons off our streets. We will
work with the third sector and community to tackle
knife crime, gang, and youth violence. We will go on
investing more on crime prevention and in CCTV.
I am grateful to everyone who has taken part in
the development of this action plan. It is clear there
is much to do but we are committed to making a
difference and I look forward to working together to
deliver change.
Councillor Sue Fennimore
Deputy Leader.2 Knife crime Action plan
This action plan will Knife crime - the London picture
be used to monitor all
Knife crime is on the rise across the country. In 2016/17, London
the activities that we accounted for approximately three in ten recorded knife offences
undertake with our nationally. In the period March 2016 to March 2017 12,122 knife offences
were recorded in London.
partners to reduce knife
crime in the borough. MPS recorded KnifeKnife
MPS recorded Offences
OffencesApril 2010
- March 2018- March
2018
16,000
14,171 14,680
14,000 13,332
12,122
12,000 11,378
10,079 9,691 9,743
10,000
8,000
6,000
Between March 2017 and March 2018
4,000
there were 14,680 knife crime offences,
which is an increase of 21% when 2,000
compared to the previous year 0
(March 2016 – March 2017). 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018
Knife crime - Hammersmith & Fulham
In Hammersmith & Fulham, between March 2017 and March 2018, there
were 235 knife crime offences. Between March 2016 – March 2017, there
were 234 knife crime offences, which is an increase of 0.4 % (or 1 offence)
over the past 12 months.
Since 2016 Hammersmith & Fulham has seen a slight increase in incidents
involving violence and weapons, and even though we have relatively low
levels of knife crime when compared to other London boroughs, any
increase is unacceptable.
Knife Crime
Knife CrimeOffences
Offences March 2017- March
March 2017 - March 2018
2018
1000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Southwark
Newham
Lambeth
Tower Hamlets
Hackney
Greenwich
Harrow
Bexley
Merton
Islington
Croydon
Camden
Enfield
Ealing
Redbridge
Wandsworth
Hounslow
Kensington & Chelsea
Sutton
Richmond Upon
Kingston Upon Thames
Hillingdon
Barking and Dagenham
Westminster
Haringey
Barnet
Lewisham
Hammersmith &
Havering
Bromley
Brent
Waltham Forest
In 2017/18, according to Youth Offending
Team (YOT) data, 22 young people received
statutory and out of court disposals in
relation to knife crime or offensive weapon
offences.Knife crime Action plan 3
LBHF
LBHF Youth
Youth Disposals
Disposals for Knife
for Knife CrimeCrime or Offensive
or Offensive Weapons
Weapons 2017/18
2017/18 by Ageby Age
and & Gender
Gender
7
6
Number of people
5
4
3
2
In 2017/18, the majority of incidents
1
involving knives in H&F were committed by
young people, under 18, who were actively 0
15 17 12 13 14 15 16 17
involved in, or on the periphery of gang
Female Male
activity.
LBHF Youth Disposals for Knife Crime or Offensive Weapons
2017/18 by Ethnicity
Other, 1, 5%
White, 5, 23%
Mixed, 1, 4%
Black or
Black British,
15, 68%
In 2017/18, the majority of young people
arrested, charged and found guilty of knife
crime in H&F were young people of either
black or black British ethnicity.4 Knife crime Action plan
Developing and delivering this action plan
This Action Plan has been developed with partner agencies. Participants in
the consultation process include:
H&F Community Safety Team, H&F Licensing Team, H&F Trading Standards
Team, H&F Youth Offending Team, H&F Family Assist Team, H&F Antisocial
Behaviour Team, H&F Neighbourhood Wardens Team, Street Doctors,
St Giles Trust, Access to Sport, Let Me Play, London Sports Trust, Women
& Girls Network, H&F Police, H&F Police Safer Schools Team and H&F
Community Safety Partnership.
The key themes of our action plan are:
Standing with communities, neighbourhoods, and families
against crime
Protecting and educating young people
Keeping deadly weapons off our streets
Offering ways out of crime
Targeting lawbreakers
Supporting victims
This Action Plan will be reviewed annually in conjunction with
Hammersmith & Fulham Councils Corporate Vision, Hammersmith &
Fulham Councils Ending Gang Violence & Exploitation Partnership
Strategy, The London Knife Crime Strategy, and the Home Office’s Serious
Violence Strategy.Knife crime Action plan 5
Theme Objectives Action Lead Outcome Rag
Standing with Develop and deliver Deliver weapons awareness workshops to Family 2 sessions delivered
communities, anti-knife crime vulnerable young people, specifically those Assist (Spring/Autumn). Each
neighbourhoods initiatives that work who have received an out of court disposal session attended by 10 at
Youth
and families with youths caught or a statutory court order for possession of a risk young people.
Offending
against knife up in knife crime. knife or offensive weapon. Young people understand
Team
crime The sessions will focus on legislation, social the consequences of
perceptions, exploitation, the impact of knife Police involvement in knife
crime injuries, and first aid. Street crime.
Doctors
Increase engagement Provide 3 funded full time Police Officers to H&F Increased engagement
with hard to reach, sit within the council’s Youth Offending Team Council and early intervention.
high risk young and support the work of the YOT in engaging 30 hours a week outreach
H&F Police
people. young people at the risk of, or already within, delivered.
the criminal justice system. Youth
Provide 1 funded full time Gangs Outreach Offending
Police Officer to support and divert young Team
people from crime. Violence
Impact
Project
Violence Impact Project (VIP) -
commission outreach services commissioned H&F Family
to work with high risk young people. Services
Engage with Youth Offending Team to attend meetings Youth Parents are engaged
community groups with 3rd Sector organisations and community Offending in the partnership’s
concerned about groups including: Team approach to preventing
knife crime. • Community Education Forum knife crime and feel
• Somali Women’s Network supported to safeguard
their children from knife
• Leaf Education
crime and exploitation.
Enable communities Stop and Search Monitoring Committee H&F Police Public involvement
to provide their will meet on a quarterly basis to monitor facilitated to help shape
Stop and
experience of police activity, and feedback findings to the effective policing,
Search
street encounters, Community Safety Partnership. YOT to sit on particularly around stop
Monitoring
especially around the committee. and search.
Committee
stop and search, Consult with Independent Advisory Group, Four Stop and Search
directly to the Neighbourhood Watch, and Key Individual Monitoring committee
borough Police. Networks. meetings held annually.
More young people
identified by YOT to
join Stop and Search
Committee.6 Knife crime Action plan
Theme Objectives Action Lead Outcome Rag
Protecting and Give young people Consult with the H&F Youth Council on H&F Youth Consultation facilitated
educating young a voice and involve tackling knife crime and how best young Council to feed into knife
people them in the decision- people can make themselves safer. crime strategy, with
making process. any recommendations
incorporated in to the
annual plan.
Safeguard, protect Safeguarding Process - ensure partners are H&F Effective referrals to
and divert vulnerable familiar with the safeguarding process, and Council Family Support Service or
young people work collaboratively and holistically to protect H&F Police Adolescent Service.
away from gang and divert young people from violence and Concerns discussed in the
criminality. gang criminality. appropriate forums.
Ensure any concerns about harm/risk to Effective support for
young people are reported through the Initial vulnerable young
Consultation and Advice Team. This front people transitioning
door allows information to flow through to from Childrens to Adults
the Contacts & Assessment Team, and for an Services.
appropriate onward referral to be made.
To engage Work with Safe Camp, a sports camp for H&F Police Deliver Safe Camp
young people in young people and children, to engage young throughout the school
Access to
diversionary activities people in a range of activities and sport Sport holidays.
including workshops on the consequences of Reduction in first time
carrying knives. Let Me play
knife crime offenders on
London borough.
Sports Trust
Deliver the BMX Clever outreach Access to Deliver the BMX outreach
programme to Pupil Referral Units and groups Sport programme at the Bridge
with behavioural issues. AP Academy in 2018.
Identify new youth
groups and young people
to work with.
To educate schools Commission the Women and Girls Women Provide young women
on Violence Against Network to deliver advocacy and and Girls with safe spaces, and
Women and Girls, educational provision to teachers and youth Network consult them on key
and advise them services in the borough. issues such as knife crime.
how to integrate 1 AP/YOT setting per
support into different year - 50 psycho-
aspects of their educational workshop
provision. sessions delivered each
year reaching 10 young
women and 40 young
men.
Raise awareness of Deliver knife crime awareness workshops in H&F Police At least one session
knife crime among primary and secondary schools. delivered in every primary
Safer
young people. Schools and secondary schools in
Team the borough.Knife crime Action plan 7
Theme Objectives Action Lead Outcome Rag
Protecting and Develop anti-knife Commission Street Doctors to deliver Street 20 life-saving skills
educating young crime initiatives lifesaving skills sessions in H&F. These Doctors sessions delivered to a
people that engage young sessions aim to discourage young people total of 200 young people
continued people and those from carrying weapons, giving them the throughout the year.
most at risk of being information they need to dissuade their
involved in violence. peers from doing so. Street Doctor volunteers
will teach young people two practical and
interactive modules.
• The first module explores the medical
consequences of violence, including
carrying weapons, and seeks to address
the factors linked to violence.
• The second session is practical; young
people are taught vital first aid skills and
what to do in a medical emergency.
Improve the Work with the Out There Response and Out There Specific outcomes for the
identification and Rescue Service - a pan-London project led Response full 3 year project across
response to the by Brent & Lewisham and delivered across all & Rescue London include:
exploitation of young 32 boroughs. • Minimum of 600
H&F
people by organised The project has 3 elements: young people worked
Council
criminals, specifically with via interventions
• Response & Rescue - an immediate 24/7
through County
rescue and response service • Reduction in their
Lines.
• Intelligence Development _ to inform recorded criminal
prevention and focus resources on behaviour
those most in need and on the cusp of • Increase in number
exploitation of young people
• Breaking the Cycle - upskilling front line identified as being
professionals to better identify and divert exploited
young people away from this exploitation • Better understanding
at the earliest possible stage. of the problem and
networks
• Increase in number
of young people
identified as being at
risk
• Increased knowledge
of the risk for young
women associated
with county lines/
gangs
• 400 front line workers
trained across London
• Improved links
between London and
regional services.8 Knife crime Action plan
Theme Objectives Action Lead Outcome Rag
Offering ways To engage Commission St Giles Trust to support high H&F Engage 1,500 young
out of crime disadvantaged risk young people on a one-to-one basis, and Council people between
young people deliver group sessions. St Giles 2015-2018.
and support Trust
them moving into
education, training,
and sustainable
employment.
Prevent reoffending Support offenders in custody pre-release H&F Reduce reoffending rates.
to prevent them from re-offending (Youth Council
Offending Service). Youth
Provision includes: Offending
• 1 x full time Resettlement worker managed Team
within the H&F Youth Offending Service,
who works directly with young people and
their families to help reintegration.
• The recruitment, training, coordination,
and supervision of mentors/volunteers
Keeping deadly Target those who Trading Standards to conduct a minimum H&F Reduction in % of
weapons off our supply and give of 30 visits to retailers to introduce our knives Council businesses selling knives
streets access to knives and and strong acid campaign and strong acids to
offensive weapons. underage youths from the
baseline (in underage test
purchases conducted in
2017, knives were sold at
11% of their attempted
test purchase locations).
Conduct 30 visits to audit procedures used at H&F Police
businesses that sell knives. Licensing
Team
Offer training to retailers on avoiding
underage sales, the safe storage of
knives and strong acids, and minimising
confrontation. Follow up visits to all
businesses to assess impact of the training.
Conduct ‘challenge 25’ test purchases at
businesses selling knives and strong acids.
Undertake bi-monthly operations as part
of Op Sceptre, with 30 visits conducted
throughout the course of the year.
Share and utilise Work with the Police and our communities H&F Police Reduction of knives in the
partnership to identify knife crime hotspots and carry out public realm.
H&F NWS
intelligence on knife joint weapons sweeps of problem areas.
crime hotspots.Knife crime Action plan 9
Theme Objectives Action Lead Outcome Rag
Supporting Provision of specialist Making the most of the Teachable Moment Mayor’s Ensure victims of knife
victim youth services for - support the provision of youth workers in Office for crime engage with
victims of serious major trauma centres and A&E departments, Policing services that can offer
youth violence. to engage with victims of gang and knife and Crime help, and the Criminal
crime when they present with injuries. Red Thread Justice Service in general.
Provision of Ensure referrals result in support plans, gang Victim Enhanced support and
enhanced support exit strategies, appropriate signposting and Support management of risk for
for victims of knife advocacy. victims of knife crime.
crime.
Targeting Target those who Operation Sceptre - the policing response H&F Police A reduction in knives and
lawbreakers carry and use to knife crime across London. Includes a police identified habitual
H&F
knives, but also range of enforcement action such as weapons Council knife carriers
the supply, access sweeps, intelligence lead stop and search, Reduction in crime, an
and importation of test purchase operations in businesses that increased high visibility
weapons. sell knives, and proactive patrols. police presence, and
an increase in public
Use Impact Zones to tackle Knife Crime,
confidence.
Violence Against the Person, Drugs offences,
Robbery, and Antisocial Behaviour. Use
predictive mapping for these offences, with
patrol patterns reflecting this mapping.
Work with partners, groups, and communities H&F Police
to tackle gang criminality and prevent
offending under Operation Trident.
Regular refresher training for officers on
knife crime, habitual knife carrier tactics and
intelligence gathering.
Use GPS tagging for habitual knife carriers,
and knife enabled crime offenders when the
option is available.
Conduct regular checks on all habitual knife
carriers
Utilise accurate Map localities of concern, most vulnerable H&F Police Intelligence used to direct
partnership and repeat offenders, and associations partnership resources
H&F
intelligence and between repeat offenders. Council effectively, e.g. weapons
offence mapping to Increase focus on knife crime and monitor sweeps and proactive
support intelligence outcomes of all knife crime offences. patrolling.
led operations.
Work in partnership Police Safer Schools Team to deliver knife H&F Police A reduction in the number
with local crime awareness workshops to youth Safer of young people falling
organisations to organisations in the borough. Schools into knife crime for the
raise knife crime Team first time.
awareness among
young people.© Hammersmith & Fulham Council Design - July 2018 - 020 8753 1764 File ref: 315_53
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