Protecting our communities from crime and harm Since policing began, one of the main
objectives has been to stop crime happening; this still remains our aim. We are working even harder to prevent criminals who live in your communities from committing offences and causing harm.
A key priority for the police is to ensure that we deal effectively with terrorism, serious crime and other major challenges to public safety within our community. These services and departments are often described as protective services and we have significantly developed them as summarised below.
We are more prepared than ever to deal with terrorism and will work in partnership with other agencies to reduce the likelihood of radicalisation of individuals or groups who may otherwise become involved in terrorist activity.
In order to respond to the threat of criminal use of weapons, we have a Tactical Firearms Support Unit. We will continue to use this unit to reduce the risk of serious injuries through enforcement and education.
We will work closely with major crime teams from across the region to further improve our investigative processes. We will co-ordinate with the Hampshire witness care units to ensure that we deliver a high level of service to people who are witnesses to homicide and other serious crimes.
We will work closely with our partner agencies over the coming months to continue to improve our support to vulnerable groups and the way we manage
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sex offenders, violent and potentially dangerous people who pose a risk of serious harm.
We will continue to ensure that upholding human rights, good engagement with protestors and public communication are at the core of operational practice in the policing of protests. We will do this by learning the lessons from the protests and developing our tactics and training to respond appropriately.
We are continuing our work in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. We will ensure that this will not affect our ability to manage other key events across Hampshire Constabulary such as the Isle of Wight music festivals.
We will continue to work with other agencies throughout the year to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads. We will continue to utilise Driver Improvement and Driver Awareness Training schemes.
Particular focus will be:
• using information to catch offenders who use the internet to commit offences around images of children and in this way prevent more serious crimes happening
• targeting the financial possessions of offenders involved in organised crime.
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