What we do

Off-Road Bike Nuisance

For the 12 months leading up to the end of 2005 the Greater Manchester Police reported over 26,000 public complaints about off-road nuisance, a significant rise year on year. Given the escalation of the problem the Authority undertook a scrutiny project to assess the extent of the nuisance across the county, and nationwide.

It was apparent that different agencies were attempting to fight the nuisance in their own way, however, the lack of collaboration led to ineffective practices and mixed messages being relayed to members of the public. The Authority, in it's capacity as a strategic body and through it's connections to law enforcement, thought it appropriate to centralise efforts and produce a generic toolkit for use by partners in the fight against the nuisance.

Conferences were held bringing together key partners including Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and Local Authority teams to share experiences and discuss future plans. A GMPA Tool-kit was launched which included various case studies and educational literature for partners to adapt and circulate.  

In 2006 the Police Authority were invited to visit Leeds City Council to see how they were tackling the problem and as a result, deterrent signage was introduced in parks and green spaces across Greater Manchester.

GMPA also worked closely with Graham Stringer MP and Barbara Keeley MP who agreed to front the campaign for a mandatory and retrospective registration scheme. Following on from a successful and well publicised parliamentary reception held by the Authority, with support from the APA, Mr Stringer had his first and second readings passed through Parliament. The issue has now been passed to committee for discussion and negotiation.

As the Authority had fulfilled its initial objective, it disengaged from the role of project lead. However, it was accepted that there may still be a role to serve as an information and monitoring hub, and that an update report should be submitted annually to the Scrutiny Committee.

The "Knock Knock Project" is a partnership campaign to address all forms of doorstep crime within Greater Manchester. It is a partnership between the police, trading standards, community safety units, voluntary sector partners and other key agencies working to support older and vulnerable people.

The project is delivered via a network of local multi agency task groups, each working to its own action plan and reporting back to the local CDRP and the Greater Manchester Doorstep Crime Network. The key aims of the project are as follows:

·Raising awareness of doorstep crime and reducing vulnerability.

·Improving the responses to doorstep crime incidents and supporting victims.

·Reducing opportunity for doorstep criminals to operate within Greater Manchester.

·Increasing the number of detections of doorstep crimes.

For advice on keeping safe from bogus callers and doorstep criminals visit any of the following:

Home Office Information

Age Concern Information

Trading Standards Information

Click here for information for primary school teachers and the Knock Knock Who's there? lesson plan.

You may also find the downloadable documents below of use:

Bogus Caller Resources Update - September 2009

Knock Knock Postcard

Report It Poster

Report It Leaflet

Stop and Search

The Authority has a statutory responsibility to monitor and proactively communicate stop and search data from the force. There are several ways in which we do this.

Through the full Police Authority Committee Members receive the Diversity Monitoring Report and are able to challenge the Force on findings in relation to Stop and Search. The next report is due to the Authority on 21^st December.

The Authority will also be taking Stop and Search data to the Strategic Independent Advisory Groups (IAGs) twice a year, once at the Greater Manchester IAG Seminar in February / March and then again around 6 months later in October time. The IAG Chairs will be meeting in October 2009 to review the latest data.

The Authority also work closely with the Force on joint communications around Stop and Search and use the literature and branding used in the national campaign to ensure the message is consistent and effective.

For further information on Stop and Search please visit the Home Office website for more details