Community Engagement:
The Police Perspective
Chief Constable Simon Cole
ACPO lead for Local Policing and Partnerships Business Area
ACPO lead for Mental Health and Disability Portfolio
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•Sir Geoffrey Dear
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The ability of the police to perform their duties is
dependent upon the public approval of police
actions.
Police must secure the willing co-operation of
the public in voluntary observation of the law to
be able to secure and maintain the respect of
the public.
The degree of co-operation of the public that
can be secured diminishes proportionately to
the necessity of the use of physical force.
Police seek and preserve public favour not by
catering to public opinion, but by constantly
demonstrating absolute impartial service to the
law.
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Robert Peel
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Confidence (BCS)
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79% of respondents said they
trusted the police very or fairly
strongly
The Guardian 24th September 2012
Total of 3,976,312 recorded
crimes for the year ending
March 2012 was - a yearon-year fall of 4.2%
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Transparency
Openness
=
Communication
Accountability
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LEGITIMACY
‘If you always do what you’ve
always done, you’ll always
get what you’ve always got’
Henry Ford
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Physical presence and accessibility
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Neighbourhood Policing-Engagement
There are over 3,600 Neighbourhood
Police Teams nationally
•Street Briefings
•Joint Action Groups
•Information Collation and Sharing
•Partnerships
•Problem Solving
•Local Surveys
•www.police.uk
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Dutch Policing
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Special Constables
20,300 Special Constables nationally give
over 5,000,000 hours nationally
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Volunteers
10,000 Police Volunteers give 800,000 hours nationally.
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Neighbourhood Watch
•Over 158,000 Neighbourhood Watch schemes
nationally include:
•Street watch/Street pastors
•Home Watch
•Business Watch
•Farm Watch
•Shop Watch
•Faith Watch
•Forecourt Watch
•School Watch
•Allotment Watch
•Land Watch
•Horse Watch
All to encourage neighbourliness and closer
communities
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Transparency
‘…..transparency within British policing is a ‘step
change’ above anywhere else in the western
world and indeed further afield, we should be
quite proud of that’.
Sir Hugh Orde
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Police Transparency
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Op Peninsula
Police Transparency
•Silver Advisory Group created which included community
leaders, faith leaders, council representatives and independent
advisors.
•Local Radio invited in to Silver Control
•Community Mediators
•Lay Visitors in custody
•Dip sampling of complaints
•Wider community consulted and information mapped
•Independent Observers accompanied officers at demonstrations
made up of PA members, Community and Faith leaders, local
councillors
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‘Familiarity Breeds Consent……’
‘Social Media isn’t good, or bad. It just is. It can help
rioters to organise, and it can help the police connect
with communities. It isn’t the answer to improving
police-community relations, nor the mechanism by
which the police should engage with the public. It is,
however, an effective new avenue to reach people
who want to understand, and engage with, policing in
their areas’
Kate Lloyd, Delivery Analyst,
NPIA
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Simon Cole
(@CCLeicsPolice)
06/10/2012 15:32
Ideas please....
....examples of innovative ways
of connecting police and
public?
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Oakham Police
(@OakhamPolice)
06/10/2012 21:54
@CCLeicsPolice
#Surrey #police use a
mobile app which
connects public with
#safer neighbourhood
teams great idea.
the cabbie
(@RandomCabs)
07/10/2012 20:44
@CCLeicsPolice
‘Maybe a taxi watch
scheme-we see all’
Constable Chaos
(@ConstableChaos)
06/10/2012 15:55
@CCLeicsPolice I'll just say one
hashtag #CoverForGMP
Jane Fleming
(@fleming77)
07/10/2012 19:52
@CCLeicsPolice ‘try Storify’
Simon Cole
(@CCLeicsPolice)
06/10/2012 15:32
Ideas please....
....examples of innovative ways
of connecting police and
public?
‘partnerships with youth, sports, other social groups & key individuals to get
messages out to new audience i.e …blogs, Facebook, twitter….needs to be
focused, appropriate, necessary and interesting…good way to reach those we
have found hard to get previously’
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David Watts
(@DavidWatts12)
07/10/2012 19:55
@CCLeicsPolice…
’relocate the police
station into the
council offices
along with the
CAB’
Leics NHW (@leicsnhw)
07/10/2012 21:19
@CCLeicsPolice @leicsnhw
using the amazing scheme
tools which NHW have
access to via Neighbourhood
Alert
Victoria Bleazard
(@VictoriBleazard)
06/10/2012 15:50
@CCLeicsPolice W Mids
Police asked @Rethink_ for
views of ppl w MI 2yrs ago &
residents I met v impressed
w police for going to this
effort
Lena Samuels (@lenasamuels)
06/10/2012 15:41
@CCLeicsPolice community focus groups,
online blogs, ambassadors, offer day in life of
opportunities, get media students to film pod
casts..
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joarundale
(@diversitysgt)
06/10/2012 16:10
@CCLeicsPolice IAG &
local groups connect us
on strategic and local
issues representatives
from wide
range/charities/3rd
sector
Zoe Pursey (@z_pursey)
06/10/2012 16:12
@CCLeicsPolice Use of phone app
St Matthews police (@LPStMatthews)
06/10/2012 23:50
@CCLeicsPolice what about bobby bingo we ran
on the St matthews thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Beatbobby-bin…
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PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone
Public support
with more than
48,800
messages of
condolence on
website.
Thousands of police and public
line the street…standing shoulder
to shoulder
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New Governance/New Opportunities
•Public Debate on Policing
•Appointing Chief Constables-Role of Public
•Enhanced focus on what local people want
•One to one professional relationship
•Better cross agency join up on key issues:
-Drink
-Drugs
-Mental Health
-Offender Management
-Criminal Justice
•Advocacy
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‘The
fact that the British Police are answerable to the law,
that we act on behalf of the community and not under the
mantle of Government, makes us the least powerful, the
most accountable and therefore the most acceptable police
service in the world’
Sir Robert Mark
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