Agenda and minutes

Election of the Chairman

·         To elect a Chairman for the forthcoming year

Election of the Vice Chairman

·         To elect a Vice Chairman for the forthcoming year.

Cllr Richard Britton was elected Chairman for the forthcoming year.

Cllr Junab Ali was elected Vice-Chairman for the forthcoming year.

Apologies were received from Cllr John Smale.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 22 March 2018 and Wednesday 9 May 2018

Decision:

·         That the minutes of the meetings held on Thursday 22 March 2018 and Wednesday 9 May 2018 were confirmed as the correct records.

There were no declarations of interest.

·         That Cllr Anna Cuthbert had been replaced by Cllr Tom Rounds as one of the Wiltshire Council panel representatives.

·         That a minutes silence would be observed for the Grenfell Tower victims at midday.

·         The Commissioner advised that due to a growing workload he had decided to appoint a Deputy Commissioner. Recruitment would be carried out in due course with the PCP holding a Hearing to ratify the appointment of the successful candidate.

The Panel welcomes contributions from members of the public.

Statements

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please register to do so at least 10 minutes prior to the meeting. Speakers are

permitted to speak for up to 3 minutes on any agenda item. Please contact the officer named on the first page of the agenda for any further clarification.

Questions

Members of the public are able to ask questions in relation to the    responsibilities and functions of the Panel at each meeting. Those wishing to ask questions are required to give notice of any such questions in writing to the Head of Democratic Services at Wiltshire Council no later than 5.00 pm on xxxxxxxxxx. Please contact the officer named on the first page of the agenda for further advice. Questions may be asked without notice if the Chairman decides that the matter is urgent.

Mr Paul Sunners raised concerns re the proposed appointment of a Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner.

That Citizens in Policing had met for their first meeting with very good feedback.

Inspector Andy Fee and Detective Sergeant Anthony King gave a presentation that outlined Wiltshire Police’s Special Burglary Operation.

Points made included:

·         That Wiltshire Police were actively targeting criminals taking part in this type of offence.

·         Typically targeted were properties that had high carat gold and jewellery inside. Asian households were at least five times more likely than white European households of being the victim of a domestic burglary where gold was taken.  These communities were associated with high value gold within family wealth, ceremonial use and display and were likely to keep significant quantities of high value gold in their homes.

·         Engagement work had been undertaken with the Asian community using prevention information and PCSOs were tasked to engage with the Asian community to distribute leaflets and provide reassurance. 

           Work was undertaken with the Swindon Hindu Temples to advise on the  safe storage of high value items on their site.

·         Intelligence identifies suspects were very organised and prepared to travel large distances and across Force boundaries. They were also known to commit distraction burglaries.  Previous research and intelligence would also show Distraction Burglary and ‘Rogue Trading’ crime as linked and had long been considered as how suspects can identify their target addresses.

The Chairman thanked Inspector Andy Fee and Detective Sergeant Anthony King for their informative presentation.

It was agreed to defer this agenda item until the September meeting.

The Chairman requested that the OPCC provided PCP members with draft copies of the report for their comments.

The Commissioner outlined a report setting out his quarterly performance data – Quarter Four 2017-18 (1 January to 31 March 2018) contained in the agenda pack.

Points made included:

·         There were 9,918 crimes recorded during quarter four and 43,744 crimes were recorded in Wiltshire in the 12 months to March 2018.

           This represents an increase of 2,062 crimes (five per cent) compared to the previous 12 months.

·         The recorded crime rate per 1,000 population for Wiltshire in the year to March 2018 was 64.3 crimes. This was below the most similar group (MSG) average of 69.6 crimes per 1000 population.

·         The Force continued to prioritise residential burglary and the ability to provide the victim with a positive outcome. The head of crime for Wiltshire, Superintendent Sarah Robbins had further developed a detailed improvement plan and updates with regards to progress against this plan had been presented to the Commissioners Monitoring Board (CMB).

·         That the recent Salisbury incident had cost Wiltshire Police some 7.5m, some funding would be received from Central Government to offset this.

Deep Dive – Priority 1: Prevent Crime and keep people safe.

Note: It was agreed to defer this item until the September meeting.

Risk Register – 2017-2021

The report was noted.

The Chairman thanked the Commissioner for his reports.

The Chairman advised that he felt that this was a good report, with useful information.

It was agreed that tables 1 & 2 would be incorporated into the PCP performance framework to enable PCP oversight.

Decision

·         It was agreed that £500 would be allocated from PCP funds for membership of the National Association of PCPs.

That work was ongoing re the appointment of two co-opted panel members.

The Chairman thanked Cindy Creasy and Chris Henwood for their valued contribution to the panel.

There were no member questions.

To note the forward work plan.

The Forward Work Plan was noted with the following points:

·         Proposed Community Policing Team Resource Framework – That tables 1 & 2 were incorporated into the PCP performance framework to enable PCP oversight.

·         That the deferred Deep Dive item to go on to the September meeting agenda.

·         Budget Monitoring to go on to the September meeting agenda.

To note the future meeting dates below:

·         27 September – County Hall, Trowbridge

·         6 December 2018 – Civic Offices, Swindon

·         27 September – County Hall, Trowbridge

·         6 December 2018 – Civic Offices, Swindon