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.