Community Service Delivery

1. Community Service Delivery Paul Broadbent Assistant Chief Constable & Chief Executive

2. UK Policing • Lowest for decade 132,000 • 11,500 less than 2010 • Crime fallen by 8% • ASB 15% • Acquisitive 10% • Violence 9%

3. Key Challenges • Resources • Finances • Remit • Governance • Collaboration • Major Crime • Partnerships

4. Reality or Rhetoric • BigS/Localism v Cultures • BigS/Localism v Criminal Justice • BigS/Localism v Austerity • BigS/Localism v Serious/Organised crime

5. GLA Strategic Aim ‘Working in partnership to protect vulnerable and exploited workers’

6. GLA Priorities • Preventing worker exploitation • Protecting vulnerable people • Tackling unlicensed/criminal activity and ensuring those licensed operate within the law

7. “Raid on Kent Gangmaster • 30 trafficked Lithuanian workers freed • Kept in debt bondage • forced to work 17 hour shifts • Bussed to farms nationwide to catch hens through the night, • Sleeping for days at a time Kept under control by • Lithuanian enforcers with threats of violence and actual physical assault.”

8. Growing A2 Accession Hysteria • Pressure on local Authority resources • Benefit Fraud • Social/Racial tension • Gang threat • Migrant only jobs • Lack of local human resources • False identification factories

9. Trafficking / Hidden Exploitation • 100% increase in last • two years • Early Identification • Labour • Forced/debt/bonded • Financial, physical, emotional, mental • False representation • Trafficked with consent • Long, complex supply chains

10. Finally • The GLA must be seen as effective • By what it does • By how it reports • GLA must maintain the trust of the industry • Seen to be tackling the worst excesses • Listening and working with stakeholders • GLA must facilitate a level playing field to promote national economic growth • Working with all partners, local authorities Govt Depts.

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