Session Two: Preventative strategies
Case study: Hounslow Homes Warden
Training - Narinder Padwal, Housing Race
Crime Coordinator, Hounslow Homes
Role of Neighbourhood Wardens
Prevention
• Diverse, trained and supported teams with out of hours
operations
• Multi-agency working/joint operations
• Community engagement
• Publicity
• Environmental improvements
Early intervention
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Presence
Joined up working
Tension monitoring
Engaging with youths, parents, etc
Graffiti/communal repairs
Hounslow Homes Neighbourhood Wardens
• Government initiative
• One of first schemes funded
• Multi-agency partnership
How we started off!
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Went live 2001
13 uniformed neighbourhood wardens
All estates plus two TVHA and one RHP estate
3.00pm to 11.00pm seven days a week
What we aim to do!
• Improve and make safe the local neighbourhood and
community
• Reduce fear of crime
• Reduce anti-social behaviour
• Be a helpful on-site out-of-hours presence
What else the wardens do!
• Assist with community events such as fun days, youth
events, day trips, parties, etc.
• Estate monitoring
• Recommending environmental improvements
• Helping with emergencies
Facts and figures
• Neighbourhood wardens record approximately 500
incidents every three months
• Over the last five years over 10,000 incidents have been
dealt with
• We assist with 15 to 30 community events each year
Who do we work with?
• Hounslow Homes – we provide information which
assists other teams to support or take action in ASB
cases
• Police – we provide information to the police which
allows them to action incidents of crime and reduce
crime
• Hounslow council – we provide information to teams,
which allow them to improve the area
• Local organisations – we work with these groups to
promote the well being of the neighbourhood and the
diverse communities
Wardens offer victim support
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High priority
Victim centred
Victim safety
Multi-agency working
Evidence gathering
Victim consent
Wardens and perpetrator action
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Interview alleged perpetrator
Warning letters
NOSP
Possession proceedings
Eviction
Injunction
Monitoring
Multi-agency working
Community events