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Community safety

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Broxbourne is a safe place to live, with relatively low levels of crime and disorder.

Broxbourne Community Safety Partnership comprises

Council, Police and other statutory agencies working in partnership to improve community safety and improve public confidence that action is being taken to address these issues.

By law, a Community Safety Plan must be produced. The Partnership has produced a Plan for 2012/13 which can be found in the 'related links' section on the right of this page.

The aims and objectives for the Broxbourne Community Safety Partnership in promoting community safety are as follows:

To promote pro-social behaviour
To actively assist in the reduction of crime and anti-social behaviour within the Borough
To investigate and take prompt and reasoned action as and where necessary
To improve the environment to reduce the opportunities for crime and anti-social behaviour
To initiate early intervention to prevent future, possibly more serious anti-social behaviour
To provide reasonable assistance to those reporting or committing anti-social behaviour
To actively work to promote tolerance between sections of the community to reduce the fear of crime and improve residents' quality of life
To support and encourage the more vulnerable sectors of the community to report incidents targeted at them because of their race, gender or disability

The local Community Safety Plan shows how the Partnership will prioritise its resources and respond to the findings of an annual strategic assessment to address the community safety issues that are of most concern to those who live and work in the Borough. It also takes into consideration all other relevant local, regional and national agendas.

Broxbourne remains a safe area, but certain issues and concerns were identified which need to be tackled by partners.

The latest Broxbourne Community Safety Strategic Assessment has highlighted the following local community safety priorities for 2012/13.

The key local priorities are:

Reducing serious acquisitive crime, particularly burglary other (sheds and garages) and seek to more effectively manage offenders
Continue to reduce the incidence of domestic violence in the Borough
Maintain the multi-agency work to deal with parking outside schools and other legal/obstructive parking
Continue to reduce the levels of anti-social behaviour, including enviro-crime
Continue to engage the public to improve confidence/reassurance in the Police/Council and improve perceptions about anti-social behaviour

The Community Safety Plan is a 'living document'. This means that the Partnership constantly reviews the work it does and is therefore able to properly target resources to minimise crime and disorder problems in the Borough.

Residents who would like more information about the Community Safety Plan or have any questions should contact the community safety team at Broxbourne Council on 01992 785573 or e-mail community.safety@broxbourne.gov.uk.

Residents are encouraged to attend their local neighbourhood forum to find out more about actions being taken to improve community safety and public confidence/reassurance in the Borough of Broxbourne.