What is Hackney Community Engagement Board?

The Community Engagement Board, established in early 2008, is funded by the Metropolitan Police Authority to inform community members about local crime and community safety issues and to help them to monitor and influence the types of activities undertaken and inform future priorities.  

The aims of Hackney Community Engagement Board are:

• To support local community engagement to help secure effective, citizen-focused, fair, accountable and responsive policing and council community engagement activity for Hackney’s communities.

• To provide a forum in which local people can engage Hackney Police, Hackney Council, the Metropolitan Police Authority and each other in constructive discussion and debate about policing, crime and community engagement issues in Hackney.

• To enable people in Hackney to understand, inform, influence, support or challenge policing and community engagement policies that affect them.

• To provide a forum for information flow in all directions between Hackney’s police, local authority, partnerships and the local community.  

• To be an inclusive body which promotes equal opportunities and diversity, treats all people with respect, will not compromise its impartiality, and will not tolerate discrimination in any form.

Board members:

Board members are drawn mainly from community and voluntary sector organisations in the borough, including those representing minority groups, victimised groups and those that have been previously underrepresented.  The 2009/10 elections for the Board took place on 20 May 2009.  The key members voted onto the Board are:

The Chair - John Howard

The Vice Chairs - Reverend April Keech and Rhasan Brunner

The Treasurer - Sheila Suso-Runge

Public Meetings:

The Board’s quarterly public meetings provide a forum for local police to report back to the community on local policing tactics and initiatives.  It allows the community to raise probing questions with the Police and Council on policing and community safety issues.  Previous meetings have energetically addressed topics such as Young People and Crime, Serious Violent Crime and Volunteering.  

Future Board Meeting Dates:

24 February 2010

19 May 2010 and AGM

All meetings are scheduled for an 18:30 start the venues are to be confirmed these will be posted on the calendar section of the Team Hackney Website:

For more information about the meeting, or about the
Community Engagement Board, contact Jack Duncton at jack.duncton@hackney.gov.uk. or Tel: 020 8356 5321.

Downloads (open in separate window)

Serious Violent Crime in Hackney - an overview by Supt Alun Goode - September 2008 (828KB)
Implications for A and E of serious violent crime - September 2008 (2.72MB)
Community Safety Board Hackney Performance Headlines (707 KB)