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Response to petition: “For the reinstatement of CCTV on Church Street, Lisson Grove, NW8, and for the funding for four additional dedicated Metropolitan police Service Ward Officers”

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

This report considers the petition that requested the following:
“Signatories to this petition request that Westminster Council act in the interests of security and safety of their shop tenants, the business community, their customers, residents and the community as a whole by re-instating police surveillance cameras (CCTV), and actively support funding for at least four additional dedicated beat officers for a more visible street presence in the Church Street Ward, and that the Office of the Mayor (MOPAC) allocate the required funding.”

Decision:

WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL

 

STATEMENT OF DECISION

 

 

SUBJECT: 

Response to petition: “For the reinstatement of CCTV on Church Street, Lisson Grove, NW8, and for the funding for four additional dedicated Metropolitan police Service Ward Officers”

 

 

Notice is hereby given that Councillor Ian Adams, Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing,has made the following executive decision on the above-mentioned subject for the reasons set out below.

 

 

Summary of Decision

 

This report considered the petition that requested the following:

“Signatories to this petition requested that Westminster Council act in the interests of security and safety of their shop tenants, the business community, their customers, residents and the community as a whole by re-instating police surveillance cameras (CCTV), and actively support funding for at least four additional dedicated beat officers for a more visible street presence in the Church Street Ward, and that the Office of the Mayor (MOPAC) allocate the required funding.”

The petition comprising of 221 signatures was presented by Councillor Aicha Less to Full Council on Wednesday 23rd January 2019.

 

Recommendations

1         Metropolitan Police Service is responsible for the operational deployment, ownership and development of the CCTV service in the City of Westminster. The Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing agreed to formally write to the Metropolitan Police Service, seeking a review and consideration of the appropriateness of CCTV in the location of Church Street.

 2        The Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing, support Members of the community, who have expressed their concerns about visible police presence on the streets and who ask for additional dedicated beat officers within the Petition, are encouraged to support the City Council’s campaign to improve policing in Westminster, by raising their concerns about local police provision directly with those responsible. As such, to write the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service and the Deputy Mayor for Policing, making it clear that they ask for an increase in the number of Dedicated Ward Officers (DWOs) in the Church Street area.

 

 

 

Stuart Love, Chief Executive,

Westminster City Hall,

64 Victoria Street

LONDON 

SW1E 6QP

 

 

Publication Date:

 

11 April 2019

Implementation Date:

 

11 April 2019

Reference:

 

CMfPP&L/01/2019-20

 

 

 

Publication date: 11/04/2019

Date of decision: 11/04/2019

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