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this was tackled by concentrating on these five areas as a strategy:

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scrutinise police forces use of their powers, particularly stop and search;

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organise engagement events that promote interaction between different communities;

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commission services directly for victims of crime, and work with specialist organisations;

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challenge the National Recruitment Processes;

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promote hate crime reporting, how to do it, where to go, convictions that have been achieved against people who have been victims of hate crime and campaigns with others across the criminal justice system.

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the report looks at how the Police intervene and reduce harm in the community;

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County Lines crossed a number of crime types, serious violence, modern slavery, human trafficking. This crime had criminal elements, there was a need to safeguard vulnerable members of the community;

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the end of the report showed useful indicators and signs which may be useful to feed back to Local Authorities and communities to raise awareness of what to look out for with County Lines crime;

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the report showed how best crime could be reported, online, 101, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers.

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how the panel could be involved and give the Police and Crime Commissioner more support?

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how the Covid pandemic had impacted County Lines?

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that that one of the signs to look out for was more people calling at neighbours’ homes; how could neighbours differentiate between gifts being delivered or drug deliveries?

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was there a knife crime epidemic and a surge in County Lines gang related violence, or was it just good aggressive policing to disrupt the villains?

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there had been a 13% increase in weapons offences in the last year. What has made us better at that? Was there an uptake in gang related, drug related activity that may be coming from up country; are we uncovering what’s always been there or was there a significant increase in threat?

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was the Public Health budget a constraint on the impact that police could make on this issue?

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with regards to item 4.13 on page 21 – an awareness workshop took place for agencies and organisations who engage with homeless individuals; when did they take place, who attended, were district council officers attending and were county council children services officers also attending?

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p19 of the report showed figures for 16/17 going into  18/19 drug trafficking offences went from 656 to 1027, this was a massive increase. Was this because more drugs traffic was being picked up due to less traffic to hide in? Is this graph going to go up in a similar fashion, are we prepared for it?

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would the Police and Commissioner be able to develop a strategy that the panel could understand, with clear indicators of progress going forward?

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at the last meeting, an email was sent to the Commissioners team to outline what we wanted from the County Lines, one of these was performance data, this hasn’t been covered in this report;

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that a previous recommendation for 101 RAG ratings to go from amber to red was ignored and it was queried how seriously the panel’s recommendations were taken by the Police and Crime Commissioner;

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how did the Commissioner see her role in supporting the panel with the ongoing scrutiny function, which would be clear, continuous and effective?  ...  view the full minutes text for item 25.

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a director had been appointed for the programme on serious violence who would be starting in January 2021;

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Crest Advisory had been procured to assist with the data collection exercise;

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statistical reports would be available in the next couple of months to assist with who and where attention would be focused;

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a number of projects had been commissioned including Turning Corners, a gang related project for Teignbridge and South Hams;

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a project had been commissioned for the young people in and near the Falmouth area, as a test bed, for 6 months to look at how better young people could be supported through a community response;

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a meeting took place with the Minister for Vulnerability, Victoria Atkins (she worked with the Police on Operation Encompass). We were presenting the successes, we won the world class policing award for this work. We have a unique opportunity to work alongside partners in our communities to drive this work forward;

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when the Domestic Abuse Bill comes in work would be undertaken to identify and recognise individuals as victims in their own right. That would be a major shift in how services are delivered and would mean challenges.

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their concerns with the increase in figures;

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that abuse would likely affect victims from conviction through to later in life when the defendant was released from prison. These victims had massive scarring and required a lot of support. (Councillor Haydon requested that the Commissioner looked into this from a Police perspective and would provide examples to the Commissioner outside of this meeting);

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that the report highlighted the partnership practice and Public Health approach, and questioned if the budget that the Government gave Local Authorities for Public Health were a constraint on the partnership being effective?

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how partnership funding was divided and requested that data was provided to the panel as well as the partnerships’ effectiveness;

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why was any tracking of violent crime and other crime trends removed from the Police and Crime Plan first bought forward in June 2017?

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why in the report in May 2018 was there no mention of violent crime?

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the number of PCSO’s and how they have been re-absorbed in the police force.

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that the panel’s recommendations had been taken to the Scrutiny panel and these would be answered as part of the scrutiny process.  The first scrutiny panel took place on 11 November 2020; there were lay scrutiny members that work with us on stop and search and 2 Councillor advocates that had also joined the panel;

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two more meetings were yet to take place to explore the scrutiny, one on 24 November 2020 and the last one on 3 December 2020, a report would be ready early in the New Year before the next panel; 

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the panel recommendation regarding the RAG rating change to red from amber was not put in place because of the following reasons:

•There was an annual action plan that the 101 team always worked to in terms of improvement. There was a range of activity and actions already underway;

•The Commissioner felt that no more actions should be undertaken when 101 was in the process of being scrutinised, until the problems were known, and needed to wait until the scrutiny process was complete;

•This may well come out at the end of the process as a red RAG rating after the scrutiny, but until the next 2 phases had been completed this would will be paused until the whole process had been through the scrutiny panel.

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why a representative from the Police and Crime panel wasn’t on the scrutiny panel to put reasons and cases forward?

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when the scrutiny process would be completed?

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if the Commissioner felt that the investment of £1.3 million had been value for money to achieve these results?

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if the Police communications team could send an update via email of how to report something to the Police? This could be communicated via Members’ own social media channels;

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that the 101 calls had dropped from 86% to 65% and maintained the same RAG rating and that it would be beneficial to split down the number of issues within 101 and give them a separate RAG rating;

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the usefulness of the RAG ratings and how they could give the panel or the general public any sense of confidence that things were going well?

•There was a repeat victimisation RAG rating, which was green, despite the fact it hasn’t improved, 26% static, not changed, so why was it green?

•Attendance time was green, but was worse than the national baseline; should it be amber?

•Email and text response time was nowhere near base line, 71% response in 24 hours compared to 98%, but this was green.

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the Police and Crime Commissioner offered her thanks to the services she worked with or commissioned for that had all won awards or national awards: Howard Leagues of Penal Reform; Circle South West; Trevi House; Restorative Justice Services;

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that the main subject of contact from local communities linked to speeding and more enforcement in their area;

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a lot of effort had been made to maintain business as usual during Covid; the Commissioner wanted to pass on a huge thank you to her team who have been incredible holding things together, both as part of the crisis response and delivering business as usual. She also thanked panel members who have continued to run meetings during this process which demonstrated good governance.

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how the survey results would affect the budget?

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requested an update on estates and investments in relation to the facilities in Plymouth;

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how the report highlighted that we had only been reimbursed for half the PPE of £1.5 million (received £700k of the national £30 million) and that this wasn’t fair funding for Devon and Cornwall disregarding the summer policing challenges. Did the Police and Crime Commissioner agree that this fell far short of the Government promise around Covid?

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that two years ago it was mentioned publically that a £13 million building in Bodmin would be built, where was that included in the schedule?

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how the Police and Crime Commissioner worked with the camera safety partnership on priority of areas and if she had any influence in where they work in local communities?

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her response to the review of the highway code in particular regard to support for horse riders in rural roads;

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the Police and Crime Commissioner’s stance on pavement parking;

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if the Commissioner would commit to a detailed review of the Plymouth command estates and infrastructure requirements with a view to making a clear report regarding the future prospects for upgraded infrastructure in Plymouth?