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THEMES | Community Safety

   

Key Issue 1:

Safety in public places.
 

Aim:

Increasing safety in public places.


Objective:
To Promote Safety in Public Places.
Action
  • Develop and deliver partnership projects addressing anti-social behaviour such as fly tipping, littering the streets, noise nuisance, abandoned cars and dog fouling through Community Support Officer schemes, expansion of the existing CCTV coverage, working together to increase the level of enforcement and identify and implement projects carried out by offenders.
Lead Partner
Derwentside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.
Impact by 2010
  • Reduce year on year the number of repeat incidents of anti-social behaviour reported to the Partnership, using the number of incidents reported to the police during the audit period 1998 - 2002 as a baseline.

Objective:
To increase the number of recorded crimes aggravated by either race or homophobia and to reduce the number of repeat incidents.
Action
  • Establish a Derwentside Racial forum to coordinate, combine and integrate all the efforts of respective partners.
  • Establish a Derwentside forum to coordinate, combine and integrate efforts of respective partners in respect of lesbian, gay and bisexual and transsexual persons.
  • Establish a database of racial or homophobic incidents, victims and
    offenders.
Lead Partner
Durham Constabulary, through the Anti Social Behaviour Task Group of  the Derwentside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.
Impact by 2010
  • Increase by 10% the number of recorded crimes aggravated by either race
    or homophobia and to reduce the number of repeat incidents by 5%.

Objective:
To reduce vehicle crime and at the same time to increase its detection.
Action
  • Identifying hot spot areas and trends in offending behaviour &
    achieving the overall objective through measures such as:-

Introducing and developing community-based initiatives aimed at
promoting crime prevention and reduction through safe parking
practices, and promoting effective vehicle security.
Promoting activities to divert likely offenders and repeat offenders.

Lead Partner
Derwentside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.
Impact by 2010
  • Reduce Vehicle Crime by March 2005 to 10.8 per 1000 population, and at
    the same time, increase the percentage of detected incidents.

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