The Community Safety Team
We deliver a wide range of services that contribute directly or
indirectly to making communities safer and ensure that community
safety is taken into account in all aspects of service
delivery.
The Council has a dedicated Community Safety team, whose
role is to ensure that the Council meets its statutory
responsibilities under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 through
promoting Community Safety and reducing the fear of crime.
In particular the Community Safety Team take a coordinating role
for the Council in working with partner agencies to develop,
implement and monitor Community Safety strategies and plans, and to
support and advise Elected Members and other key Council
Departments in their work on such issues.
Community Safety Partnerships have a
responsibility to produce an audit of crime and disorder in their
area and to consult widely with the public in order to shape the
production of a strategy that provides the framework of how
agencies will work together to reduce crime and disorder and
increase public reassurance.
The common themes that all partnerships have agreed to
tackle include:
- Adult Protection
- Alcohol/Substance Misuse
- Anti Social Behaviour including Youth Nuisance
- Criminal Damage
- Domestic Abuse / Violent Crime
- Reduce crime – Prolific & Other Priority Offenders
(PPO)
- Road Safety
- Vehicle Crime
- Winter Crime Prevention
Have Your Say - Crime and Communities
Review
The Prime Minister has commissioned a review into how Authorities
engage communities in fighting crime. The aim is to understand how
local communities, the police, local authorities, local criminal
justice agencies can best work together to reduce crime, to raise
community confidence in local agencies and lower the fear of crime.
We also want to examine whet makes people get involved in helping
tackle problems - reporting crime, giving evidence or being part of
a community group to help reduce crime.
For the opportunity to Have Your Say please visit
the Cabinet
Office website where the terms of reference of the review can
also be found.