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Doing the right thing...

I’d like to share with you my thoughts on stop and search and my pride in the way that my officers responded to several critical incidents over the weekend using this tactic and others.

The first incident was early in the morning on Saturday 11 May at about 3.40am where a man had been stabbed in the vicinity of Parkhurst Road N17. Seven men were swiftly arrested. Later that same morning, police were alerted to another man stabbed in Tottenham.

Both incidents are, at this early stage, being treated as linked. Thankfully both men are recovering. We are appealing for information about these incidents, so if you can help, please call police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

It was on the Sunday, following these violent incidents, that I found myself having a chat with some officers who expressed their concern about the possibility of receiving complaints if they used stop and search. I made my position on the use of stop and search clear to them. I want my officers to use stop and search and stop and account. I want them to use the powers  professionally, to tell people why they are being stopped, and to treat everyone they stop with respect and dignity. If they do that, they will have nothing to worry about as they will have my full support.

Some of you may know that I led the Metropolitan Police Service Stop and Search Team for a year-and-a-half and worked in the Home Office for three years developing policy and practice on police use of stop and search nationally. So there are few people who have been as involved as me, and have as strong an understanding, of the benefits and concerns that the use of the powers can generate with officers and the public.

I am proud of the way my officers and other specialist Met units - such as the Territorial Support Group, Trident, Traffic, Dog section and police helicopter - worked together at the weekend in response to the incidents. Police carried out high visibility patrols, search warrants and used stop and account, and stop and search, focussing on stopping the right people, in the right place, for the right reason, in the right way. As a result of this activity police seized a loaded firearm, three large knives, a stun gun and a quantity of drugs and made numerous arrests in relation to these items.

Every single police officer has the power to stop and search people and every single police community support officer (PCSO) has the power to stop and ask people to account for themselves. My officers have been directed to use stop and search and stop and account to keep our streets safe and to use their powers professionally, appropriately and consistently and, in so doing, to earn the trust of our communities.

If you have had a negative encounter I want to hear from you, so please either contact me directly or through a third party. Obviously, I’d also like to hear if you’ve had a positive encounter.

My email address is: [email protected]

Quote of the day:

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

George MacDonald

Useful websites:

MPS stop and search website: http://www.met.police.uk/stopandsearch

‘Safe’, the Met’s youth website: http://www.safe.met.police.uk

Crimestoppers website: http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org

‘Fearless’ Crimestoppers’ website for young people: http://www.fearless.org

Anti-gun and knife crime website: http://www.droptheweapons.org

See how police in Haringey are working with young people on the subject of stop and search: http://www.youngfoundation.org/?press_releases=lets-talk-about-stop-and-search

Download a pdf of the full Young Foundation report ‘Lets Talk About Stop and Search’: http://www.youngfoundation.org/publications/lets-talk-about-stop-and-search

If you’re interested in statistics, the Met publications scheme publishes borough stop and search monitoring reports: http://www.met.police.uk/foi/units/stop_and_search.htm

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With Det Supt Stephen Clayman at the Haringey Police Community Amateur Boxing Club charity dinner - great evening! The club continues to raise money to support young people. Don’t miss the annual Box Cup at Alexandra Palace on 20th, 22nd and 23rd of June. Find out more at: http://www.haringeyboxingclub.com

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Hitting the target without missing the point...

Next week the Met is due to publish the end of financial year crime performance statistics. The figures will show that Haringey has achieved some fantastic results against our targets last year. However, public confidence in how well we do our job is stubbornly low. I believe that policing is more than just enforcement and results, and more about outcomes. I've said it before and I'll say it again; In challenging times of reduced budgets and increased demands on our resources, we want to deliver policing that is informed by science, and infused with passion. By science, I mean it is based on intelligence, practical research and validated experience. By passion, I mean going beyond what is expected of all of us. I aim to achieve this by being more effective and humane. By effective, I mean we shall respond to crime in ways that produce socially desirable results; which means greater safety, less fear, less suffering, greater respect for the rule of law and less injustice, and we do so efficiently, investing in our precious human and financial resources in ways that maximise the result we desire. By more humane, I mean we shall respond to crime in ways that recognise the humanity of those victimised by crime, those arrested and convicted of crime and others who experience the ripple effect of crime. I look forward to updating you next week and in the mean-time remember... Working together we can make things better. Quote for the week: "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall

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Stop and search.. Right people, right place, right reason, right way...

We revamped our procedures on the use of stop and search about 18 months ago to focus on violence and increase the effectiveness of our use of this tactic.

The Commissioner set some targets to measure how well we’re doing to change our approach.

March was a great month for Haringey, 21.7% of stop and searches carried out by my officers resulted in arrest or cannabis warning.. That’s better even than the target of 20%.

Also, compared to March 2012, my officers carried out 58.6% fewer negative drug searches, because my officers are being directed to focus on stopping the right people in the right place for the right reasons.

Our approach is working, with robbery and serious youth violence showing reductions.

It’s not all about the right people, place and reasons… its very important that my officers carry out stop and search in the right way.

I’d like to know about your experience. If you’ve been stopped and searched by police in Haringey. What was good and what wasn’t so good?

Contact me by email: [email protected] and please write ‘My stop and search experience’ in the subject line.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Quote of the day: “Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.” Barbara Brown Taylor

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Changes mean we'll be able to do more to keep you safe...

The publication of the Mayor's Police and Crime Plan means we now know where we are heading with the way that people can contact us. I'm very pleased that we'll retain a 24/7 front counter in Tottenham, our busiest in terms of footfall and location of transport hubs.

We'll also retain two other front counters - Hornsey and Wood Green - although the opening hours will be reduced. We'll have several contact points open a minimum of three hours a week, and I emphasise, that is a minimum, it's up to me how long they open and where I see a demand for them to be open longer, I'll make sure that happens.

That’s on top of the other ways of contacting police; by phone, online, in the street and by appointment at a time and place to suit you.

My officers will continue to patrol from a number of deployment bases right across the borough and the great news is that we will still have 650 or so officers, so cops will always be available.

The changes in contact points brings me onto the other changes that the Met is currently going through. These are changes in structure and in policing style, so that we can continue to provide the best police service for less cash, aka work more efficiently and effectively.

Retaining bobbies on the beat is our priority, as is neighbourhood policing and you'll see as we update you in the coming weeks that there are exciting changes afoot that mean neighbourhood policing will remain our focus, yet it will become more dynamic, more resilient and more able to respond faster to your concerns.

I'll keep you posted on the changes. I for one believe they will enable me and my team to do more to keep you safe.

Quote of the week:

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often". Winston Churchill