Social landlord feeds into UK's national intelligence framework

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A London-based housing association was the only registered provider to represent the sector at a meeting to update the intelligence framework used by UK police forces to manage information and secure effective decisions.

Richmond Housing Partnership (RHP) attended the meeting earlier this week in Coventry alongside the likes of MI5, the Home Office and the UK Border Agency. Other housing representatives included Housemark and the Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group (SLCNG).

RHP – which is also piloting the Government’s new community triggers for anti social behaviour – was invited to attend by the SLCNG after it was asked to invite a sector representative.

The National Intelligence Model (NIM) is the product of work led by the National Criminal Intelligence Service on behalf of the Crime Committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers.

Ian Whiteway, anti-social behaviour manager at RHP, said the framework was the "backbone of how the police work" but that currently "it's not fit for partnership working".

He said: “The main thing to come out of the meeting was a greater emphasis on partnership working. To be involved in it is major because we wouldn't normally get a look in. Currently the model isn't fit for partnership working but they have vowed to review it. They're looking at bringing other partners into the working group to work on the National Intelligence Model. They're looking at secondments in the future and would consider using a housing representative to work with them.  

“They feel intelligence should be shared more and that there should be more trust between organisations.”

Whiteway added that the review would hopefully lay the foundations to speed up intelligence and subsequently anti-social behaviour tools used by landlords.