Property Crime

• About acquisitive crime in Haringey
• Practical advice
  • Immobilise Property Register

About acquisitive crime (theft)

Every six months Safer Haringey produces a Partnership Data Report which examines data relating to the priority areas for the borough. The report serves as a basis for decision-making by the Haringey Safer Communities Partnership.

From 1st April 2008 serious acquisitive crime includes the following crime types:

• Burglary in a dwelling
• Aggravated burglary in a dwelling (‘aggravated’ refers to burglary where a weapon is carried)
• Robbery of business property
• Robbery of personal property
• Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle
• Aggravated vehicle taking (‘aggravated’ refers to vehicle taking where the offender: drives dangerously,   causes injury, damages property or damages the vehicle).
• Theft from a vehicle

Some of our successful initiatives include:

• Q-Cars – a dedicated rapid response team dealing with robberies at the scene. This team conducts a thorough investigation while driving around the borough searching for the suspect.
• Positive arrest policy – ensuring that robbery suspects are detained while evidence is collected to secure a conviction.
• Operation Butler – high visibility patrols targeting youth on youth robbery.
• Care and Repair – providing people over the age of 60 years with access to a target hardening package (improving the security of their home).
• Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) have been trained to conduct house security surveys in burglary hotspots.

Way forward

• On-going provision of crime prevention advice particularly to repeat victims.
• Continue to carry out joint operations with the police and other agencies to target specific crime hotspot areas.
• Continue to gather and share intelligence to lead operations
• Crime Opportunity Profiling of Streets (COPS) – this is an innovative research tool which can be applied to examine opportunities for criminal activity in a particular area. The findings of this research can be used to minimise the opportunity to commit crime and can increase the risk of being caught.

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Practical advice

You can help us to prevent acquisitive crime by following some of the advice set out on the national Crime Reduction website. The site has a wide range of help and advice 'mini-sites' covering arson, burglary, business crime, cctv, criminal damage, distraction burglary, domestic violence, etailing fraud, neighbourhood watch partnerships, sexual offences, small retailers in deprived areas, street crime, student victimisation, the tackling violent crime programme and trading standards.

Links to some of these mini-sites can be found in the external links section below.

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Immobilise Property Register

Immobilise is the worlds largest FREE register of possession ownership and searchable register of stolen goods and blocked mobile phones.

Immobilise can be used by members of the public and businesses to register their valued possessions or company assets using our free upload service.

Uniquely via an Immobilise account UK users can record any registered item as lost or stolen and this instantly appears on the Police National Stolen Equipment Database. This online checking service is used by all the UK Police forces to trace owners of stolen property.

If the item is a cell phone also report it to your network so they can block the SIM card and the IMEI number.

Immobilise is the only ownership registration service supported by all the UK Police forces, and the mobile phone industry for the registration of mobile phones. It is also supported by the Metropolitan Police, GLA and TFL for the registration of bicycles.

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Useful External Links

The following links are not part of the Haringey Council website. Please read our legal disclaimer before using these links

• Crime Reduction mini-sites
• Tackling Burglary - Home Security Advice mini-site (Crime Reduction website)
• Personal Safety mini-site (Crime Reduction website)
• Car, Motorbike and Bicycle Crime mini-site (Crime Reduction website)
• Immobilise National Property Register

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