Community safety partnership
Community Safety Plan
Broxbourne Community Safety
Partnership is comprised of the Council, Police and other
statutory agencies. The Partnership is required by law to
produce a rolling, three year Community Safety Plan.
In line with this responsibility the partnership
has produced the Community Safety Plan
2009 - 2012.
The plan details how the Broxbourne Community Safety
Partnership will prioritise its resources and respond to the
findings of an annual strategic assessment and 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.
The 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 fight crime and disorder problems in the
Borough.
Strategic Assessment
Broxbourne Community Safety Partnership has a
duty to undertake an annual strategic assessment of local community
safety priorities for the three year rolling Community Safety
Plan. The aim of the strategic assessment is to provide an
assessment of community safety issues affecting the
Borough. The strategic assessment is intelligence-led and
considers changes in the level and patterns of crime, disorder and
substance misuse since the last assessment and why these changes
have occurred. This strategic assessment is incorporated into a
county level Community Safety Agreement. The Hertfordshire
Constabulary Policing Plan will be closely tied into
this.
As a result, the Strategic Assessment 2012/13 has been
produced which identified the following:
Key findings and trends from
the 2012/13 Strategic Assessment for the period August 2010 - July
2011:
- All crime levels reduced by 6% from the same
period last year
- Anti-social behaviour down by 16.9%
- Criminal damage down by 13.8%
- Serious acquisitive crime down 18.3%
- Dwelling burglaries down by 29.1%
- Vehicle crime down by 12.8%
- Shoplifting down by 12%
- Burglary other up by 40.8%
Proposed community safety priorities
for 2012/2013:
In light of the available data, the local
community safety priorities identified in the 2012/13 Strategic
Assessment are:
- Reducing serious acquisitive crime,
particularly burglary other
and manage offenders more effectively
- Continue to reduce domestic violence in
the Borough
- Maintain the multi-agency work to deal with
parking outside schools and other illegal/obstructive parking
- Continue to reduce the levels of anti-social
behaviour, including enviro-crimes
- Continue to engage the public to improve
confidence/reassurance in the Police/Council and
improve perceptions about anti-social behaviour