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Increase Tower Hamlets accountability

• Tower Hamlets Council
  • Tower Hamlets Council Safer Neighbourhoods web pages are out of date and misleading.
• Mega Chinese Embassy
  • We oppose this project as security threat whilst most Tower Hamlets Councillors support this.
• Ward Panels
  • demographics do NOT include businesses, causing a lack of overview on services
  • Met Volunteers not properly included
• Met Police scrutiny
  • Analysis often excludes the welfare of officers
  • Police used as power argument with negative effects
  • Police officers treated differently to others without the same employment protection

Increasing accountability and metrics to measure real outcomes.

We ask Tower Hamlets Police to instal a public WiFi booth in the Bethnal Green Police station, people can use to report online, with easy instructions how to.

• Under Boris Johnson (2008-2016), around 65 Met Police front counters and stations were closed amid austerity cuts. Sadiq Khan (2016-present) oversaw 38 closures in 2017, with recent plans reducing 24/7 access further at sites like Bexleyheath. Both mayors navigated central government funding squeezes, but London’s total operational stations dropped from over 140 to about 20 full-time counters today.
• Tower Hamlets is run by an elected Mayor who has absolute majority in the running of this council. THEO’s are employed who are not directly accountable to the public and it is not evidenced how the THEOs and Tower Hamlets Police achieve satisfactory outcomes for all residents and businesses in the borough. Those 70+ THEOS earn more than a PCSO or Police Officer does and THEOS have considerably less power and are not directly accountable. see more details
• The recent government intervention established in point 1.58 that: “Similarly, we are aware that key stake-holders were not consulted in the Council’s commission of an external review of community safety. Concerns were raised with us by staff and partners about the purpose and process of this review. …..members of the statutory Community Safety Partnership were both surprised at the review commencing and were not provided with an opportunity to feed into it’s scope and purpose.”
• With the removal of the Police and Crime Commissioners there will be one less layer of scrutiny available.

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