Cambridge Community Safety Partnership

Making Cambridge a safer place to live, work and visit
 
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The mission of the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership is to:

  • reduce levels of crime and antisocial behaviour
  • increase people's sense of community safety
  • effectively tackle alcohol and drug misuse across Cambridge

The values and strategic drivers of the partnership are detailed in the Community Safety Plan, which is revised annually.

Meetings

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Each meeting of the partnership is open to the general public.

A draft agenda, complete with details on how to submit questions to the partnership, will be published on this page around two weeks before each meeting, with the full agenda, complete with embedded associated papers, posted no less than five working days before the meeting.

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on 14 February 2012 from 10am in committee rooms 1 and 2 at the Guildhall, Cambridge.

Documents from previous meetings

You can read the agendas, minutes and relevant documents from recent meetings; minutes from earlier meetings are available on request.

Reports

Strategic Assessment 2011

The Strategic Assessment 2011 [PDF, 6MB] was written to provide an accurate overview of the current issues facing Cambridge in respect of crime, disorder, antisocial behaviour, substance misuse and behaviour adversely effecting the environment.

The assessment is based on research and analysis of a wide range of information sources. Information has not been restricted to any one agency with material from a range of sources being incorporated into the overview.

The purpose of this assessment is to help drive the business of the partnership and make recommendations for the prioritisation of problems identified within it. The approach is to scan topics and provide an overview of those areas of particular concern, rather than cover every crime type and topic in considerable detail.

Recommendations are also made as to further information requirements. This assessment enabled the partnership to discuss and agree new priorities in light of research analysis.

Community Safety Plan 2011-14

A Community Safety Plan 2011-14 has been drawn up and covers the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2014. Working from the Strategic Assessment 2010 and public consultation, the new plan continues to address issues relating to crime and disorder in Cambridge. As with the previous plan, it will be revised every year to ensure the priorities detailed remain relevant.

The priorities in the Community Safety Plan 2011-14 focus on reducing:

  • alcohol-related violent crime in the city centre
  • repeat incidents of antisocial behaviour
  • repeat victims of domestic violence

In addition, for 2011-12, there will be a priority focussing on reducing re-offending, whilst the new Integrated Offender Management scheme in Cambridgeshire beds in.

For each of these priorities a lead officer has been appointed and they have identified objectives, targets and actions for each priority.

Crime and disorder reports

These reports, compiled by Cambridgeshire County Council's Research Group, provide further details on overall crime in Cambridge and a breakdown of recorded crime from the police.

Annual review

The annual review for 2011, below, gives an overview of what the partnership did the previous year and what it will be doing in the year ahead, to address crime and disorder in Cambridge.

Agencies

The partnership is made up of a range of different agencies. There are seven statutory responsible authorities and a number of equally important, non-statutory members. They are:

  • Cambridge City Council
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation Trust
  • Cambridgeshire Constabulary
  • Cambridgeshire County Council
  • Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service 
  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority
  • NHS Cambridgeshire
  • Cambridge Business Against Crime
  • Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service
  • Cambridge Magistrates
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Cambridgeshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team

The agencies that make up the partnership meet at a strategic level to agree issues such as funding plans, priorities and performance.

Contact

If you require any further details regarding the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership and the work that it does, please email Tom Kingsley at tom.kingsley@cambridge.gov.uk or telephone 01223 457042.

The postal address is Cambridge Community Safety Partnership, c/o Safer Communities Section, Cambridge City Council, PO Box 700, Cambridge CB1 0JH.

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