What is Territorial Police Headquarters (TPHQ) Crime Support OCU doing to combat street crime?
16. This ensures the appropriate allocation of funds to boroughs, to address MPS priority crimes. Applications considered on a proactive assessment tasking proforma and are only authorised subject to the application meeting a strict set of criteria. This attracted Home Office funding up to the end of the last financial year. It is not possible to do a year on year comparison analysis of this funding and results of initiatives as records only began in July of 2000. 17. The numbers of pro-active assessment taskings targeted against street crime have been compared for the period April-June 2000 against April-June 2001. During 2000 the boroughs implemented in excess of 150 initiatives. For the same period in 2001 they implemented nearly 300 initiatives. The increase in initiatives was achieved, despite the absence of £3.9m of Home Office funding, which was directed towards this activity in 2000. Experience has indicated that whilst high visibility patrols ensure displacement of crime and p
