The Haringey Community Safety Partnership (CSP) met to discuss crime and disorder reduction in the borough. The meeting included a review of the CSP's priorities and a discussion of crime performance and partnership funding. Attendees were also scheduled to discuss future challenges and ways to improve the CSP's effectiveness.

Stocktake on Haringey Community Safety Partnership

A themed discussion was scheduled to take place, to 'Stocktake' the Haringey CSP, to identify what is working well and areas for improvement.

The report pack included a presentation that outlined the general principles of an effective CSP:

• Clarity of Role
• Minimum Standards
• Performance Monitoring
• Training and Support
• Community Involvement

The presentation included a 'health check' of the Haringey CSP, and a testing of its priorities. These priorities were listed as:

• Non Domestic Abuse - Violence With Injury
• Robbery

With additional areas of focus:

• Sexual Violence
• Domestic Abuse
• Women's Safety
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Weapon-based crime
• Hate Crime

An alternative version of the priorities was also presented:

• Violence and high harm Crimes
• Violence Against Women and Girls
• Exploitation Adults and Young People
• Increase Trust and Confidence
• Reduction of Re-offending
• Reduction victims of crime and Anti-Social Behaviour

Attendees were scheduled to discuss how clear the priorities are, opportunities to refine them, what is meant by 'high harm crimes', and whether the definitions risked covering all crime versus prioritising high impact/high risk.

The presentation also included a table of planned activity:

| Priority | Plan to do The following questions were included in the report pack for discussion:

• What is positive in respect of the planned activity?
• How could the plans be improved?
• Are we clear as to what our plans aim to achieve?
• How do we know that we are achieving our goals, understanding the barriers to achieving our goals and how the partnership can help each other?
• What are the clear (and less clear) key performance measures that regularly review?
• How do we hold each other to account?

The presentation also included a table of priorities and how progress is tracked:

| Priority /Statutory Responsibility | Last on Agenda | Also on Agenda CSP priorities were listed as:

• Serious Violence
• Violence Against Women and Girls (inc. DA)
• Anti-Social Behaviour
• Hate Crime

And statutory responsibility monitoring:

• Prevent¹
• Substance Misuse
• Reduction of Re-offending

The report pack asked: Option for rationalised focus?

Haringey Crime Performance and Partnership Funding Overview

The Haringey Crime Performance and Partnership Funding Overview June 2025 report included data on crime rates in Haringey.

Overall, just over 28,000 crimes were recorded in the borough in the 12-month period to June 2025, which is a 2% reduction compared to the previous year, compared to a 0.2% decrease in London as a whole.

Haringey's crime rate is 97 per 1,000 population, 11th highest in London. The most commonly reported crimes in Haringey are theft, violence and vehicle offences. The highest volume wards are Noel Park, Northumberland Park and South Tottenham.

Reductions have been noted in a number of key crime types, youth violence, robbery and violence with injury.

The report also noted that Haringey currently sits 16th in London for public perception responses to the question Do the police do a good job in the local area? , at 44%. This is slightly below the London average of 45% but represents a 3% improvement in the past year.

The Haringey CSP has secured £2.9M of partnership funding over four years. This funding will be used to deliver key workstreams and build on previous learning to further enhance outcomes across the partnership.

In line with the funding criteria, delivery will align with both local priorities and the London Police and Crime Plan (PCP), focusing on:

• Reducing and preventing violence
• Increasing trust and confidence
• Creating safer, more confident communities
• Better supporting victims
• Protecting people from exploitation and harm

In addition to an ongoing focus on non-domestic violence with injury and robbery, the funding will also prioritise:

• Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
• Reducing and preventing serious youth violence and criminal exploitation
• Tackling hate crime

The report also included a horizon scan of upcoming legislation and initiatives:

• Crime and Policing Bill (2025)
• Home Office Community Safety Partnership Review (2023-24)
• ASB Data Reporting and Force Level Action Plans (2025)
• Prisoner Sentencing Reform (2025)
• Prevention Partnerships and Panels (2025)
• Home Office Hyper Local Knife Crime Hotspot Funding (2025)

Minutes

The minutes from the meeting held on 6 March 2025 were included in the report pack.

During that meeting, Joe Benmore, PC Daniela Casali, Rick Geer, Adeola Bello, Ealenor Girling and Heather Hutchings introduced an item on reducing reoffending.

The meeting heard that:

• If a young person was arrested, an investigation would be conducted as normal, but the individual would also be subject to be safeguarding.
• Haringey did not have specific areas where young people may be exploited.
• Children were statistically being identified more in relation to the national referral mechanism.
• Adults who were undocumented migrants and had no recourse to public funds had a fear of their situation being revealed to authorities and this could result in people being kept as modern slaves.
• More work could be done with schools and positive news stories could be shared with young people to increase trust and confidence Police, Councils and the referral mechanism.
• Social media could be used to help young people to get information on key areas of crime.
• CCTV could be used to determine where young people were congregating or if they were subjecting themselves to risk.
• Raising awareness regarding Cuckooing² was actively worked on by generating leaflets which had been co-designed with the Police and was easy to read.
• Some work needed to be done with the lettings process.
• Vulnerable residents have had their houses targeted in relation to Cuckooing because of their vulnerability and not due to their disability and it was easier to get into their property.
• Information and training was delivered within workshops to raise awareness of Prevent and to make sure that everyone had up-to-date information on what to consider.
• There was a quarterly held Community Tensions monitoring group.
• Bringing in the victim's voice and having discussions with the victims of the incidents had helped shape perspective and how things were managed or how communication to the community is formatted.
• Work was done closely with schools and the Learning team regarding hate crime in schools.