Transcript Community Safety Task Group Presentation 22/7/08

Community Safety Task Group
Community, Health and Social Care
What is this group about?
• Community Safety is a very important subject for all
residents. This is a way of ensuring that community
concerns are recognised.
• Different from some of the other task groups in that
most of the work has to be carried out by agencies e.g.
Police, Housing, Fire Service etc.
• Is a very useful way of communicating with community
groups about crime trends.
• Very useful way of collecting community intelligence.
Membership
• Members of the community representing a
variety of different organisations.
• Neighbourhood Manager
• Neighbourhood Police Inspector
• Fire Station Commander
• Community Development Worker
• Magistrate
Task Group Work
• Ensuring that matters of concern are raised e.g.
Pedestrianised area, theft of precious materials,
anti-social behaviour hotspots.
• Feed into the Local Partnership Delivery Group
process (multi-agency meeting addressing
hotspots and individuals)
• Feed information from the Police, Fire Service and
others back into the community.
• Determine the priorities for the Community Justice
Court.
What next?
• Looking at additional measures for the
Town Centre pedestrianised area.
• Concentrating on helping to prevent
burglaries by using community networks
and local intelligence to prevent and help
with information.
• Promote Homewatch
• Continue to feed into the Community
Justice process.
Why is this group important
• Provides regular dialogue between the
Neighbourhood Inspector and members of the
Community.
• Brings partners with responsibility for community
safety together with residents to help address
problems.
• Is useful feedback mechanism for residents.
• Residents get to set the priorities for Community
Justice to ensure that Magistrates are aware of
community problems and priorities.