Project: Crime fighting panels
Funding: Taken from the existing police safer neighbourhoods' team budget
Aim: Build trust between the authorities and young people
Young people are helping shape the way London is policed thanks to two new youth-led crime-fighting panels.
Working with Hackney Council, police set up the two youth panels in the Hackney wards of Chatham and Haggerston.
Local young people meet police and council officers every couple of months to agree on priorities to make their neighbourhoods safer. The youth panel members were nominated and voted in by their school friends.
At the meetings, police share up-to-the-minute data on crime figures and youth crime trends as well as listening to young people's concerns.
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