NIM – European Perspective
Supt Russell Scott
Principal Analyst Anne Lavery
ACPOS NIM team
NEED FOR NIM
 To plan and work in co-operation with partners
to secure community safety
 To manage performance and risk
 To account for budgets
NIM LEVELS
Level 1 – Local Issues
Level 2 – Cross Border
Level 3 – Serious and Organised Crime/CT
NIM Levels are not recognised by SOCG’s
KEY MESSAGE
“It is essential that the NIM is marketed as
a policing model and everyday language
is used to convey the message to
frontline officers”
RISKS – RESOURCES - RESULTS
Scottish Government – Justice
Committee
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Q – “How do we set National and Local Policing
Priorities?”
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A – “We use the NIM at both local and at National level,
we use the Scottish Strategic Assessment to set the
Scottish Control Strategy.
This sets the priorities for the police service in Scotland
and is certainly a lot better than it has been in the past.”
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Malcolm Dickson HMICS
HMICS Annual Report
 HMCIC - Mr Paddy Tomkins:
 “Where partner agencies have adopted the NIM, tangible
benefits have been seen. Greater information and
intelligence sharing between all public services requires a
common framework and language.
 Since the NIM has already proved its adaptability and
usefulness beyond policing in this respect, we have
proposed that the NIM be extended to all relevant public
services”
NIM
Government
and Local
Performance
Objectives
Management
Business
Excellence
AIMS:
OUTCOMES:
Managing –
•Crime
•Criminals
•Disorder
•Problems
TASKING AND CO-ORDINATION
•Community Safety
•Reduced Crime
•Controlled Criminality
•Controlled Disorder
PRINCIPLES
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Information/Intelligence Gathering
Analysis
Tasking and Coordination
Joint Products
Joint Plans
Results
BUSINESS BENEFITS OF NIM
 Provide a greater consistency of policing across
Scotland
 Allow operational strategies to focus on key
priorities
 Allow priorities to be risk managed
 Allow integration of NIM with business planning
 Improve and develop liaison with partner
agencies.
Setting Priorities
PERFORMANCE OF THE SCOTTISH POLICE SERVICE
ACPOS STRATEGIC OVERSIGHT GROUP
Scottish Strategic Assessment
Serious
Organised Crime
Levels 2 & 3
Counter Terrorism
Levels 1, 2 & 3
SDEA & Force
Strategic
Assessments
LOCAL NIM PRIORITIES
General Policing
Level 1
SDEA & Force
Strategic
Assessments
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LOCAL CONSULTATION
SDEA & Forces
Strategic
Assessments
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SUPPORT PRIORITIES & PIs
Levels 1, 2 & 3 CONTROL STRATEGY
with appropriate PIs
LOCAL COMMUNITY SAFETY PRIORITIES
HMIC - 5 BUILDING
BLOCKS/NIM INTEGRATION
 Leadership
Management Ownership
 Planning/priority
setting
Strategic and tactical
assessments
 Ownership /
accountability
Tasking and coordination
 Review
Results analysis / impact
Assessment
 Meaningful Data
capture and analysis
Intelligence Products / information
systems
NIM Level 1 – 3 Connectivity
Divisional Strategic Assessments
Scottish Network
Analysis
Operation Perspicuous
ACPOS Organised
Crime Mapping
ACPO Organised
Crime Mapping
Force Strategic Assessments
Scottish Control
Strategy
Scottish Strategic Assessment
ACPO National Strategic
Assessment
SOCA UK Threat
Assessment
SOCA – Serious Organised
Crime Control Strategy
Scottish Intelligence
Requirement
Europol OC Threat
Assessment
National Intelligence
Requirement
Strategic Assessment
Strategic
Assessment
Bi-annual
Control
Strategy
List of Priorities
Intelligence
Requirement
What we need
to know
How the TT&CG uses the Tactical
Assessment
Tactical
assessment
TT&CG
Review progress on agreed
plans and intervention work
Monitor levels of:
Crimes and incidents
Performance under each
control strategy priority
identify emerging trends
Apply the tactical menu
in line with the control strategy
Hot Spots
Target profiles
Antisocial
Behaviour
Terrorism
Child Protection
Commission problem and
target profiles
Authorise and prioritise
operational activity
Crime / incident
series
High risk
issues
Drugs
Make resource decisions
Review intelligence
requirement and amend where
necessary
Serious and
Organised Crime
Groups
Others
Emerging
Issues
Violence
Neighbourhood Policing
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Neighbourhood Profile
Structured Engagement Process
Identified Neighbourhood Priorities
Neighbourhood Problem Solving
Neighbourhood Coordination Meetings
National Control Strategy
Priorities
Serious Organised Crime Groups
 Tackle serious organised crime (high level objective)
 Value of criminal assets confiscated as a result of SCDEA activity
Drugs
 Weight of Class A drug seizures and number of supply and possession
with intent to supply offences recorded
 Overall prevalence of problem drug misuse
 Value of criminal assets confiscated as a result of SCDEA activity
Violence
 Number of recorded crimes and offences
 Detection rate for recorded crimes and offences
 Number of domestic abuse incidents
National Control Strategy
Priorities
Antisocial Behaviour
 Experience of antisocial behaviour (survey based measure)
 Use of alternatives to court (incl. ASB fixed penalties)
Terrorism
 Assist in safeguarding national security
Child Protection
 Offenders managed under MAPPA who are re-convicted or breach
conditions
 Number of registered sex offenders
 Number of domestic abuse incidents
SOCG’s
Prevention
– SBCC
– ANPR
Intelligence
– Crime Mapping
– CHIS Tasking
– Prison Intelligence
Enforcement
– SNA
– Crown Office Casework Division
Scottish Intelligence Requirement
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Linked to NIR
Haulage Companies – Commodity Routes
Corrupt Specialists
Cannabis Cultivations
Prison Intelligence
Human trafficking
Firearms Supply
SOCTF
 STTCG
 SSA
 SOCG Mapping
 New Legislation
Challenges for the future
 Balancing national and local policing priorities
 Focus on improving outcomes
 Managing performance across all police activity
 Accountability and performance in partnership
working
CONCLUSION
Questions ?