Lambeth Conservatives

Labour’s Folly

Labour has obsessed about how much money is spent and how many officers are employed. The focus should have been on results. Residents have lost faith in official statistics because they know that they and their friends don’t report every instance of anti-social behaviour or even crime. This must change.

Conservatives’ Answer

Lambeth can only reduce crime in a sustainable manner if it works with the police and the Greater London Authority and Mayor’s Office.

“We will enforce tenancy agreements against anti-social tenants.”

A Conservative-led council will fight crime as its top priority. Labour’s churlish, “point-scoring” attitude towards the elected Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, ill-serves Lambeth. We support Johnson’s collaborative approach and we agree that police officers and other specialists have to be brought from the back office into the front line. We welcome his approach to tackling crime on the transport system, which must be a priority.

“We will monitor and punish irresponsible dog owners, through greater use of anonymous hotlines and problem-area profiling.”

In office, we will:

• Enforce tenancy agreements against antisocial tenants.
• Support more active targeting and enforcement against drug dealing within local communities. We will provide ways to strength the community reassurance presence on our streets by Council employees and Police Community Support Officers.
• Build on Lambeth and the Metropolitan Police’s promising anti-gun-crime initiatives, especially those aimed at youths.
• Support youth activities that give teenagers options for esteem that do not involve crime. Such support will be for mainly community-led activities, with the council playing an enabling and information-sharing role.
• Utilise mobile CCTV to identify and prosecute fly-tippers.
• Close down irresponsible bar owners, including by reforming the noisenuisance service to better protect and support complainants.
• Monitor and punish irresponsible dog owners, through greater use of anonymous hotlines and problem-area profiling.
• Increase the dog warden service to 24 hrs.
• Encourage responsible dog ownership in other ways, by advertising dog behaviour classes, and by requiring that all dogs which use Lambeth open spaces are micro-chipped so their owners can be easily traced.
• Offer greater support – and demand more of – our leaders on the Safer Neighbourhood Panels (which must be representative, questioning of partner organisations, and integrated with council activities).
• Encourage and support neighbourhood watches and local police and ensure that elected Councillors play an appropriate role in the link between the police and the public. We will encourage more local direction over the provision and location of CCTV equipment.

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