The London Crime Reduction Board (LCRB) was established in 2017 as a means of rationalising a number of establishing pan-London partnership boards and to improve accountability between partners through the delivery of an agreed partnership plan. The last mention of the board on the City Hall website was the meeting on 12. July 2023. See the minutes of the very last meeting.

It is replaced by the new London Policing Board and the first meeting will be in early Autumn 2023. The London Policing Board will sit at the top of the Mayor’s and MOPAC’s oversight and governance structure, which is currently being reviewed and partners will be consulted.

The London Policing Board is very much criticised for the selection of board members being solely selected by Sadiq Khan.

In Labour run London, knife crime is up 22%, homicide up 10% & robberies up 21%.

But @SadiqKhan is scrapping his Crime Reduction Board.

Has he given up?

— James Cleverly🇬🇧 (@JamesCleverly) February 9, 2024

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In October 2023 Mayoral candidate Susan Hall queried the latest findings of City Hall’s public attitude survey.

It found that just 48 per cent of Londoners believed the police “do a good job in the local area” – the lowest since City Hall took over responsibility for conducting the survey in 2014.

In the same article sadly Ms Linden, deputy Mayor sadly is victim blaming by saying: “We all know that one of the major problems around sexual offences is that people do not – particularly women – have the confidence to come forward and report [sexual offences].” That is a shocking view and should not even be allowed to be voiced by any person of public responsibility. source.

I have previously written about the effect of knife crime and now also gun crime on our youth. Both types of crime are shockingly high compared to the rest of England.

Susan Hall’s latest article lays open further shocking revelations about police funding issues.

The London Crime Reduction Board aimed for the delivery of an agreed partnership plan across Greater London Boroughs whilst the Policing Board concentrates on Met Police and Policing within London.

The London Policing Board was created by the Mayor in response to one of Baroness Casey’s recommendations in her review of culture and standards in the Metropolitan Police Service, which followed a series of scandals rooted in long-running cultural and performance issues within the Service. 

Yet, the Policing Board has different aims from the Crime Reduction Board. Reviewing the Culture of the police cannot have the same scope as reducing crime in partnership with boroughs.

Here in Tower Hamlets we see the immediate impact of MOPAC’s community engagement with the Safer Neighbourhood Board, (SNB) which is by appointment only and doesn’t even publish any minutes of meetings. It is chaired by the same person since over a decade. See our website for details and legal definition. Yet, with the abolishing of the Crime Reduction Board, there seems to be no direct connection to City Hall any longer.

Whilst we in Tower Hamlets cannot get any transparency on the SNB, my request for a set of minutes of their meetings has so far been declined. There is a seat on the SNB for Neighbourhood Watch but all the founding members of the THNWA have resigned and it is now being run by pro-Palestinian people closely associated with Deputy Mayor Talukdar; at his community centre Club 55 on Samuda Estate. The reason this charity looks so healthy is because every bit of document and legally required filing has been done by myself, til I resigned in December 2023.

See previous article about the type of messages you can find on their WhatsApp group now, which is a reason for my resignation. There are people in Tower Hamlets who do not feel represented by this type of attitude.

Neighbourhood Watch in Tower Hamlets is currently pre-occupied with finding removers of Pro-Palestinian propaganda and with messaging about policing activities to avoid for their members to be caught.

It’s literally doing exactly the opposite of what we normally associate with that activity.

Hence we have established this new scrutiny group Tower Hamlets Crime Watch with former founder member of THNWA as driving force behind it. MOPAC funds the Safer Neighbourhood Boards across London, in each London Borough, but with the abolishing of the London Crime Reduction Board, there is no longer a leading committee for this service.