A week later I chaired a public meeting of the Lewisham Community Police Consultative Group on ‘The future of Community Police Engagement’. There were presentations from Lewisham’s Independent Custody Visitors and the London Community Policing Partnership, which looked in depth at the composition and duties of the proposed Safer Neighbourhood Boards. There was also a report from the Borough Commander on the falling crime figures in Lewisham, with knife crime spectacularly down by 29 per cent (174 fewer incidents) and personal robbery down by 17 per cent or 213 incidents.
Cllr Addison