WEDP/ActionPlan06-07/June06/KLH
WEST END DRUGS PARTNERSHIP ACTION PLAN 2006 – 2007
Overarching WEDP Aim: To reduce the impact of drug use and dealing and thereby to improve the quality of life for those living,
working in, and visiting the West End of London.
1.ENFORCEMENT
Key issues:
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Visibility of drug activity
Night time drug-related activity
Dealer-specific issues
Aim: To address the open drug market in the West End from an enforcement perspective
Key agencies: Westminster Police, Camden Police, City Guardians, Street Wardens
Strand Lead/s: Chief Inspector John Dale (Westminster) & Inspector Peter Hughes (Camden)
Objective
Activities
Forum
Ownership
Project Lead
Outputs
Performance
Measures
1. To reduce the
visibility of streetbased, drug-using
activity
a) Improved
communication
between LBC Street
Wardens and WCC
City Guardians
Managers/
Practitioners
Phil Condon (LBC)
Victor Uhumwangho
(WCC)
Number of joint
meetings attended
Shared
identified
b) Joint Westminster
/Camden street
WEDP
patrols
Inspector Peter Hughes
(Camden)
Chief Inspector John
Dale (Westminster)
Number of joint
patrols
Targeted
street
patrols delivered
a) Quarterly crossborder Safer
Neighbourhood
panel meetings
Chief Inspector John
Dale
Number of meetings
Common
identified
2. To consider
displacement/
dispersal and proactively work to
address this
WEDP
issues
issues
3. To address levels
of activity during the
hours of darkness
4. To commit to
intelligencegathering in relation
to drug dealers
b) Formalised
planning
meetings
between lead
Inspectors at
EO, CX and CD
WEDP
c) Joint
Westminster /
Camden
Dispersal Zone
enforcement
work
WEDP
a) Activities linked
to outcomes from
Objective 1/activity
b
WEDP
a) Joint intelligence
gathering/inform
ation sharing on
individuals
causing
problems in both
Westminster
and Camden
WEDP
b) CommunityAlert
extention to
other wards
WEDP
Chief Inspector John
Dale (Westminster)
Number of meetings
Bi-monthly feed into
WEDP meetings
Demographics of
groups dispersed
Bi-monthy report to
WEDP
Joint patrol outcomes
Joint patrol outcomes
Chief Inspector John
Dale (Westminster)
Number of
individuals/subjects
Joint
enforcement
outcomes
Inspector Peter Hughes
(Camden)
Number of ASBOs
TBA
Number of wards with
CommunityAlert
Inspector Peter Hughes
(Camden)
Chief Inspector John
Dale (Westminster)
Inspector Peter Hughes
(Camden)
Chief Inspector John
Dale (Westminster)
Inspector Peter Hughes
(Camden)
2
Community feedback
5. To target drug
dealers with
ASBOs
a) Activities driven
by ASBAG
(LBC) and ASB
Unit (WCC)
WEDP
Ian Walker (LBC)
Phil Gough (WCC)
Number of dealers
identified
Number of warning
notices
Number of ABAs
Number of dealers
ASBO’d
3
Implementation of
agreed actions
2.SERVICE PROVISION
Key issues:
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Hostels and related street activity
Addressing perceived ‘honey pot effect’
Aim: To consider treatment and the provision of services as responses to drug-related activity
Key agencies: Westminster DAAT, Camden DAT, Camden Street Population Services, Westminster Rough
Sleepers Services, Commissioned service providers in both Westminster and Camden
Strand Lead/s: Selina Douglas (WCC) & Mark Morton (LBC)
Objective
Activities
1. To consider hostel
management issues
from an enforcement
as well as a social
care perspective
a) Community
Councils
established in
hostel
provision
b) Ad hoc cross
border
operations to
make full use
of ASB
legislation
Forum Ownership
Project Lead/s
Outputs
Performance
measures
Tom Preest (LBC)
Number of councils
set up and operating
Community feedback
Number of operations
Implementation of
agreed action
WEDP
Janet Haddington
(WCC)
Tom Preest/ Ian
Walker (LBC)
WEDP
Phil Gough (WCC)
c) Implementation
WEDP
of Hostel
Pathways
Model (LBC)
d) Progression
WEDP
of hostel-based
service
provision
(WCC)
Tom Preest (LBC)
Strategy in place
Selina Douglas
(WCC)
4
Number of needle
exchange provisions
in hostels
Number of specialist
substance misuse
services in hostels
Increased numbers in
treatment
Reduction in drugrelated street activity
e) Monitor effects
of hostel
closures on
street activity
f)
2. To highlight key
pieces of work to
improve cross border
working from a service
provision perspective
Increase
service
provision in
locality for
Camden drug
users
James Lee / Mark
Morton (LBC)
WEDP
Camden DAT
Managers/Practitioners
directed by WEDP
a) Formalised
quarterly cross
border strategic
meetings
(DAAT/DATs and
Street popn./
Rough sleeping)
WEDP
b) Formalised
cross border
protocols to case
plan for
problematic
shared clients
Managers
Selina Douglas
(WCC)
Mark Morton /
Alison O’Grady
(LBC)
Reports on use of NX
Van, DART van, drug
related crime stats
Reduction in drugrelated street activity
Numbers in treatment
Increased numbers in
treatment
Drug related street
activity
Reduction in drugrelated street activity
Number of meetings
Shared issues
discussed
Number of shared
clients identified
Joint working
protocols in place
Tom Preest (LBC)
Janet Haddington
(WCC)
Nik Ward
(Westminster)
Helen Arnold
(Camden)
5
3.ENVIRONMENTAL
Key issues:
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Hotspots / vulnerable sites
Employment of preventative/deterrent measures
Aim: To consider the improvement of environmental factors, to disrupt current drug-related activity
Key agencies: Westminster Police, Camden Police, Camden Environment
Strand Lead/s: Jane Debono (Camden) , TBA (Westminster)
Objective
Activities
Forum
Ownership
Project Lead/s
Outputs
Performance
measures
1. To improve ad hoc
problem sites
a) Identification of
problem sites
WEDP
Jane Debono/Peter
Hughes/Tom Preest
(Camden)
Number of problem
sites identified
Implementation of
agreed action
Number of active
sites
Community feedback
b)Implementations
of actions to
address
2. To pro-actively
make use of
preventative/deterrent
measures to address
drug-related activities
3. To information
share regarding sites
planned for redevelopment in the
West End
Number of closed
problem sites
Number of sites
where information
sharing has been
explored
a) Investigate
WEDP
further the use of
CCTV facilities to
share information on
drug related
activities
Jane Debono
(Camden)
Implementation of
agreed action
a) TCR – Camden
WEDP
Jane Debono (Camden)
Community feedback
b) The Soho Plan Westminster
WEDP
TBA
Community feedback
Number of sites
where information
sharing has taken
place
6
4. Removal of derelict
telephone boxes in
the West End
a) Removal of
derelict telephone
boxes in the West
End
WEDP
Mary Davidson
(Camden)
Number of phone
boxes identified
Number of phone
boxes removed
7
4.COMMUNICATION
Key issues:
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Lack of wide community knowledge in relation to the WEDP
Objective: To strengthen community representation and improve public confidence in the WEDP’s role in
tackling drug related activity in the West End
Key agencies: Established Community Groups, WEDP Co-ordinator and Chairs of each Forum
Strand Lead/s: Kerry Herbert (WEDP Co-ordinator)
Objective
Activities
Forum
Ownership
Project Lead/s
Outputs
Performance
measures
1. To pro-actively
promote the aims,
objectives and work
of the WEDP
a) Ensure current
TOR are in
place for each
Fora
WEDP/ Managers/
Practitioners
Kerry Herbert (WEDP Coordinator)
N/A
TOR in place
b) Re-establish
WEDP website
WEDP/ Managers/
Practitioners
Kerry Herbert (WEDP Coordinator)
N/A
WEDP website in
existence
c) Ensure
consistent
details about
WEDP appear
on all partner
websites
WEDP/ Managers/
Practitioners
Kerry Herbert (WEDP Coordinator)
Number of partner
sites identified
Implementation
agreed action
8
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