Safer Fairer United Communities 2017-2020
I published the first ever Police and Crime Plan for Staffordshire in 2013 and since that time the complexities for policing and criminal justice have evolved enormously.
The scale of online crime has grown and now outstrips what we oddly call traditional crime such as burglary or being robbed on the street. Online crime is varied from defrauding thousands of people in one click to paedophiles using the internet to distribute child abuse videos and images or individuals inciting terrorism and hatred.
The internet has been a force for good but it also allows crimes against people here to be carried out by individuals or criminal gangs in a country the other side of the globe. This not only needs different skills for policing Staffordshire, it means that law enforcement across the UK, across Europe and across the world needs to be better joined up and able to cooperate more effectively than in the past.
