Greater Manchester Against Crime
“A complete system for partnership
working”
Building Communities, Beating Crime.
Home Office White Paper. Page 106, Paragraph 5.18
Critical Success Factors
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Quality data
Effective IT solution
Skilled & equipped analysts
Core “decision making” documents
Effective use & coordination of all our
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Data Sets
Greater Manchester Fire Service
Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
Greater Manchester Police
National Probation Service
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service
Paycheck & Street Value
Mosaic Lifestyle
2001 Census
Other data sets
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Manchester Gangs
NW NHS Tactical Information
Housing data
Education data
Environmental Health
Environment Agency
Engineers (street lighting etc.)
Etc.
Software Tools
SPSS
i2
MapInfo
Crisis
Hotspot Detective
IT Solution
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Purpose built data hub
Hosted by GMP
Networked to 10 Community Safety Teams
Fully supported
Strategic Analysts
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14 Strategic Analysts
7 additional CDRP users
Fully trained and supported
Monthly analysts forum (CADRAD)
Virtual workgroup
Analysts toolkit
Thinking and reading time
Managing analysis
• Training and support provided to managers
• Partnership Business Model Toolkit
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Formal commissioning
Terms of reference
Panel of experts
Critical readers
• Evaluation and review of products
Strategic Analysis
why bother ?
• Constantly capturing the big picture
• Critically reviewing how we do business
• Identify high, medium & low priority
neighbourhoods and themes
• Get the priorities right and agreed by all partners
• Understand crime and disorder in the context of
communities
• Link quantitative and qualitative data
geographically
GMAC Strategic Assessments
• Understanding communities, crime and disorder
themes and drivers
– Geo-demographic / socio-economic mapping &
analysis (e.g. Mosaic, Census, Street value &
Paycheck)
– Identify priority neighbourhoods (e.g.VLI)
– BCS and Community consultation mapping & analysis
– Geo-demographic risk analysis
– Hotspots / clustering techniques (inc. Crimestat &
Hotspot Detective
Greater Manchester by Mean Household Income
Reproduced from the Ordanance Survey
Mapping with the permission of Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. Unathorised
Reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may
Lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.
GM Police PA 010196 2002.
Greater Manchester by Mosaic Group
Reproduced from the Ordanance Survey
Mapping with the permission of Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. Unathorised
Reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may
Lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.
GM Police PA 010196 2002.
Greater Manchester by VLI
Greater Manchester VLI
Focus On Localities
Focus On Localities
Does it work? Oldham’s
experience.
• Data & information led decision making
and problem solving
• Joint tasking & co-ordinating of all partner
resources
• Clear evidence based links to LSP & Safer
Stronger Communities Fund
• Improved partner relations – open and
accountable
Does it work? Oldham’s
experience.
• Real focus on communities using qualitative
and quantitive data
• Improved C&D Audit and Strategies
• Radical redesign of structure – strategic and
tactical groups
• Neighbourhood action plans using crime as
the initial focus for change
How achievable is it?
• Up and running within 9 months of
feasibility report
• Affordable
• A firm foundation to develop and grow both
locally and at County level.
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