§ Mr. ClappisonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the targeted policing of areas; and if he will publish it. [56181]
§ Mr. MichaelThe Home Office has carried out many studies of various aspects of targeted policing. Relevant studies carried out in the last three years are:
- Combating burglary: an evaluation of three strategies (Operation Bumblebee)—published 1995.
- Policing problem housing estates—published 1996.
- Problem Oriented Policing: Brit Pop—published 1996.
- Tackling local drug markets—published 1997.
- Biting back: reducing repeat victimisation in Huddersfield— published 1997.
- Tackling street robbery: an evaluation of Operation Eagle Eye— published 1998.
Most recently, we launched "Brit-Pop II: Problem Oriented Policing in practice" at the first United Kingdom National Problem Oriented Policing conference, attended by many police forces, local authorities and representatives of other organisations.
Current work—all due for publication in 1999—is set out as follows:
- Reducing domestic violence in Killingbeck.
- Solving residential burglary—targeting in-progress burglaries.
- Preventing repeat burglary in Cambridge.
- Proactive policing on Merseyside.
- Policing anti-social behaviour.
- Evaluation of crackdown and consolidation strategy in Boggart Hill.
- Evaluation of burglary reduction in Middlesborough.
- Market reduction initiative against theft in the Medway towns.
- Drug markets and street prostitution.
- Situational approaches to policing drug markets.
- Reducing repeat bank robbery.
- Illegal parking in disabled bays.