Lambeth Community Police Consultative Group is a community policing group for the
London Borough of Lambeth
Lambeth () is a London boroughs, London borough in South London, England, which forms part of Inner London. Its name was recorded in 1062 as ''Lambehitha'' ("landing place for lambs") and in 1255 as ''Lambeth''. The geographical centre of London ...
. It provides a forum for consultation between the police and community in Lambeth. As well as monthly public meetings it provides community observers to specific police operations, to police training programmes and to day to day policing activity.
It was the first
Community Police Consultative Group to follow from the
Scarman report into the
Brixton riot (1981), being established in 1982 with the participation of the then home secretary,
Willie Whitelaw.
References
External links
{{home page, http://www.lambethcpcg.org.uk/
Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth