Agenda, decisions and minutes

LCPCG Chair, Jackie Addison welcomed everyone to the meeting and noted that the plans from MOPAC mean that this will probably be the last AGM of the LCPCG.

Members: Martyn Grover, Cllr Janet Daby, Sam Popely, Trevor Jones, Heidi Alexander, Joe Burchell, Graham Gaskell, Heidi Spiers

Membership applications were received from Catford Synagogue and from PYE Project. The LCPCG members present unanimously approved both applications and so both organisations became formal members of the LCPCG.

The constitutional amendments as proposed by Strategy Group were noted. Royston John proposed one further minor amendment, to remove the second use of “and” in the second sentence of paragraph number 6.  This sentence now to read “Nomination forms and personal supporting statements must be received by the co-ordinator 28  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

The Chair introduced three young women from the Young Citizens group at Prendergast Ladywell Fields College:   Amanda Osei-Bramaih,  Camilla Yahaya and Alice Schweigert who first spoke at an LCPCG meeting three years ago when they were 13 years old. 

The speakers gave the meeting an over view of their  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

The Chair presented the report and briefly highlighted three special areas that the group has worked on this year.

1) The meeting for Pensioners in November, “Stopping the Scammers” including a very well received performance from a local Theatre’s pensioners group acting out common scams which target the elderly and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

For this section of the meeting, the Chair was taken by Geeta Subramaniam-Mooney, Head of Lewisham Council Crime Reduction Services. 

There were two alterations from the list of candidates which had been previously distributed to members.  Royston John voluntarily withdrew from Strategy Group position due to his candidacy for the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

The Lewisham Police Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Russell Nyman made some remarks about the changes to policing over the last few years with an emphasis on policing by consent.  He explained that in the next few days a new system called the “local policing Model” would begin in several Boroughs  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.

Lewisham Council’s Head of Crime Reduction and Supporting People, Geeta Subramaniam-Mooney informed the meeting that one of the biggest changes to criminal justice and policing has come from the London Mayor’s Office (MOPAC) who released a plan yesterday.  The idea is to reduce crime by 20% reduce costs by 20%  ...  view the full minutes text for item 10.

Questions from the audience were then taken jointly by Russell and Geeta but are set out separately below:

Russell clarified that there should be an increase in “bobbies on the beat but it will take some time to put all the officers in place.  There will no longer be one  ...  view the full minutes text for item 10a

No other business was raised and the meeting finished at 9pm. 

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