Hazel Blears: I am aware that this is a serious issue, and I understand that the urban regeneration company in Southend is working with various Government agencies to see what practical measures can be taken to reassure local people. I would hate to see a situation in which the hon. Gentleman was perhaps teetering on the edge of a precipice; it would not be for me to push him over the edge. We will take a...
Hazel Blears: ...can also be accessed on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics (RDS) web site at: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/index.htm It is not possible from the data collected centrally to identify Southend within the geographical area covered by the Essex police force. 2005 data will be available early in 2007.
Hazel Blears: ...use of speed cameras for law enforcement purposes is a matter for individual chief officers of police. I understand, however, that this particular device is used both by Essex police, including in Southend, and by the Metropolitan Police. Speed cameras used by the police to produce evidence for possible use in court have to be of a type approved by the Secretary of State. The laboratory...
Hazel Blears: Southend on Sea is an action area—one of 50 areas across the country who work closely with the Home Office to ensure a high level of commitment to tackle antisocial behaviour locally. With effect from 18 April, South Eastern Division of Essex Police is adopting Neighbourhood Policing, some two years before the national due date. Each Neighbourhood Policing Team will have a nominated...
Hazel Blears: The requested information is given in the tables. Offences of vandalism are recorded within the criminal damage group classification. Crime statistics for Southend are recorded at Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) level; and for the offence of criminal damage are available from 2000–01 to 2004–05. Table 1: Recorded offences of criminal damage—1990 to 1997 -- Number ...
Hazel Blears: ...Ceredigion Dyfed-Powys Pembrokeshire Dyfed-Powys Powys Dyfed-Powys Basildon Essex Braintree Essex Chelmsford Essex Colchester Essex Harlow Essex Rayleigh Essex Southend Essex Tendring Essex Thurrock Essex Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Gloucestershire Cotswold and Stroud Gloucestershire Forest and Gloucester Gloucestershire Bolton GMP...
Hazel Blears: ... 1,183 498.7 Essex Basildon 272.5 172.4 Braintree 232.2 204.9 Chelmsford 219.7 212.5 Colchester 199.7 158.9 Harlow 366.6 268.5 Rayleigh 163.1 165.9 Southend 287.5 160.3 Tendring 181.4 140.9 Thurrock 254.9 145.3 Stansted airport(17) 85.4 — Central Services 967.3 — Total 3,230 1,629.6 Gloucestershire...
Hazel Blears: ... 12 Leicestershire North Leicestershire 12 Cleveland Langbaurgh (Redcar and Cleveland) 13 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire Central 13 Thames Valley Thames Forest 13 Essex Southend 13 Essex Basildon 13 Bedfordshire Bedford 13 Lancashire Lancashire Eastern 13 Devon and Cornwall Plymouth 13 South Yorkshire Rotherham 13 Kent Thanet 13 ...
Hazel Blears: ...can also be accessed on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics (RDS) website at: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/index.htm It is not possible from the data collected centrally to identify Southend within the geographical area covered by the Essex police force. 2004 data will be available end of March 2006.
Hazel Blears: The Youth Justice Board has recently awarded a grant of £217,000 to Southend Youth Offending Team for services to prevent youth crime and antisocial behaviour between 2006 and 2008. The Youth Offending Service in Southend provides a range of services aimed at preventing offending and re-offending, including Youth Inclusion and Support Panels, a Family Support Project, Positive Action for...
Hazel Blears: Southend on Sea is an Antisocial Behaviour Unit Action area. The Home Office have allocated Southend on Sea £50,000 in 2005–06 to tackle anti social behaviour. £25,000 of this has been allocated to tackle the most antisocial families in the town. The remaining £25,000 is being used to fund a number of initiatives including: extension of the Mediation Service across the borough; witness...
Hazel Blears: ...readily available information is by quarter and is given in the following table. Number of antisocial behaviour orders issued, as reported to the Home Office where restrictions are imposed within Southend-on-Sea local government area, by period, 1 June 2000(67) to 31 March 2005 (latest available) England and Wales Issued July to September 2000 — October to December 2000 — ...
Hazel Blears: The information requested is set out in the table. Information on strength at basic command unit (BCD) level has only been collected since 2002. Police officer strength in Essex police and Southend basic command unit (BCU) Number As at 31 March: Essex police Southend BCU 1997 2,961 n/a 1998 2,928 n/a 1999 2,891 n/a 2000 2,806 n/a 2001 2,887 n/a 2002 2,946...
Hazel Blears: ...TOGETHER Action Areas", which will get extra help to tackle antisocial behaviour. They are as follows: 51 Action Areas East of England: Tendring Great Yarmouth Harlow Ipswich Norwich Peterborough Southend on Sea Watford South East: Canterbury Dover Hastings Oxford Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton South West: Bournemouth Exeter Gloucester Plymouth Swindon East Midlands: Derby Leicester...
Hazel Blears: ...Police cells in use in Essex Number Braintree 8 Brentwood 7 Chelmsford 11 Clacton 12 Colchester 17 Grays 12 Harlow 14 Harwich 5 Loughton 3 Rayleigh 16 Southend 23 South Woodham Ferrers 4 Stansted 3 Tilbury 3 Total 138
Hazel Blears: The Southend, West constituency comes within the Southend basic command unit. The current levels of recorded offences for the crimes requested are given in the table. Recorded crimes in the Southend crime and disorder reduction partnership area: 2004–05 Offence type Number Violent against the person 3,318 Sexual offences(15) 200 Robbery 296 Violent crime 3,814 ...
Hazel Blears: The Southend, West constituency comes within the Southend basic command unit. The detection rates for the crimes requested are given in the following table. Detection rates in the Southend crime and disorder reduction partnership area: 2004–05 Offence type Percentage detected Violent against the person 60 Sexual offences 37 Robbery 26 Violent crime 56 Domestic...
Hazel Blears: Information provided by Essex police shows that on 30 June 2005 there were 23 community support officers (CSOs) in the H (Southend) Division . I am told that the Essex police has plans for CSO numbers to grow to around 200 by 31 March 2006. The deployment of CSOs to the territorial divisions of the Essex police is a matter for the chief constable (Mr. Roger Baker).
Hazel Blears: The available information relates to the Southend-on-Sea Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area and is given in the tables. Data at CDRP level is only available from 1999–2000. The National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) was introduced in April 2002. It is estimated that this change in the method of recording created a 20 per cent. increase in the number of recorded violent...
Hazel Blears: ...offence for which a conviction was given in South East Essex petty sessional area, Essex, Greater London and England and Wales, 1999–2003. It is not possible to identify those offenders in the Southend and Southend, West constituencies, as the data do not go down to this level of detail. In addition to court proceedings statistics, the number of young people of school age given...