Fylde Community Safety Strategy 2002-05

The Fylde Borough Community Safety Partnership has agreed that the following approaches will be taken when considering the methods of tackling the key priority issues:

Educating residents, employees and visitors to take simple precautions to prevent crime, encourage vigilance in identifying further issues and to enjoy the feeling of safety that our relatively low levels of crime and disorder afford. We will teach our young people to have a strong set of values in support of peaceful and crime-free communities, and also potential offenders so they are deterred from committing crime and being a nuisance in our Borough.

Targeting the specific topics of the key issues, which have been identified as priorities during our audit and consultation. Designing the Borough and its infrastructure so that it provides a safe environment in which to live, work and travel and in which criminal and anti-social behaviour is deterred.

Supporting residents who are vulnerable, businesses who take action to make the Borough a better and safer place to work and offenders requiring rehabilitation and effective supervision.

Maintaining the confidence of our community by ensuring that those who deliver our Strategy are sensitive to its diverse needs.

Enforcing the Law against those who commit crime and who undermine the peace and quality of life in the Borough.

Engaging the communities in Fylde Borough. Although the statutory responsibility for delivering the Strategy rests with the Fylde Borough Community Safety Partnership, we realise the importance of working together with residents, community groups, businesses, individuals and other organisations that are able to contribute. We will strive for continuous improvement in the development of the Partnership.

Developing a Funding Strategy to ensure that any funds allocated to the Partnership are held and managed centrally. A protocol for accessing the funds will also be developed. The Partnership will ensure that mainstream agency funding is directed where most needed and every opportunity for bidding for additional funds will be pro-actively sought.

Informing the community of the key features of the Strategy together with the development of a detailed Action Plan incorporating specific measurable targets.

The Local Strategic Partnership breaks down barriers and creates meaningful joint working, a new approach that has to be adopted within all local authorities. They must establish Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP's) that create a Community Plan which reflects the needs of the Fylde in terms of the social, economic and environmental well being of the community. The plan must embrace all other strategies and plans for the Borough which have an impact on these issues, and this Strategy can contribute to the overall objectives of the Community Plan.

• Community Safety Strategy 2005-08 (File size = 1,325kb)
• Community Safety Partnership Newsletter: Issue 1 Spring 2003 (File size = 432kb)