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THEMES
| Community Safety
Key Issue 2:
Safety in the home.
Aim:
To promote safety in the home.
| Objective: |
| To reduce Burglary and at the same time to increase its
detection. |
| Action |
- Introducing and developing community-based initiatives aimed at
tackling burglary through promoting effective crime reduction measures
such as increased home security measures, promotion of Neighbourhood
Watch Schemes.
- Promoting activities to divert likely offenders and repeat
offenders.
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| Lead Partner |
Durham Constabulary, through the Burglary Task Group of the
Derwentside
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. |
| Impact by 2010 |
- Burglary reduced by 5% by March 2005.
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| Objective: |
| To reduce Domestic Violence and at the same time to increase
its detection. |
| Action |
- Effective, speedy joint actions to help victims, tackle
perpetrators, and address risk factors which increase the likelihood of
being either offender or victim.
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| Lead Partner |
| National Probation Service. |
| Impact by 2010 |
- Repeat victimisation of victims of domestic violence reduced by 1%
per
annum throughout 2002-05.
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| Objective: |
| To reduce the number of accidental fires in Derwentside. |
| Action |
- Carrying out awareness raising programmes to promote self help and
to discourage deliberate/negligent fires.
- Continuing the smoke alarm fitting and maintenance programmes.
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| Lead Partner |
| Derwentside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. |
| Impact by 2010 |
- No of accidental fires in dwellings, and their fatalities/casualties
reduced by 25% by 31st March 2004.
- Awareness raising programmes introduced.
- Smoke alarm fitting and maintenance programmes continued.
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| Objective: |
| To reduce the fear of crime and promote public reassurance.
To tackle the risk factors which increase the likelihood of committing a
crime, or becoming a victim of crime. |
| Action |
- Effective joint action to investigate and deal promptly with
reported
incidents.
- Facilitate the community’s ability to protect itself through
publishing
regular community newsletters and press releases and by responding to
specific requests for crime prevention / reduction advice.
- Identifying and developing opportunities to involve young people.
- Tackling the environmental risk factors associated with being
perpetrator or victim through processing requests to maintain council
dwellings, street lighting and open spaces.
- Build crime and disorder prevention into the earliest stages of
planning, design and policy development.
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| Lead Partner |
| Derwentside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. |
| Impact by 2010 |
- To secure by March 2005 a 10% reduction in the fear of crime in
Derwentside, based on the Crime and Disorder random survey.
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