Community Safety Strategy
The Community Safety Strategy has been created to deal with the problems encountered within the Borough in a smarter and more co-ordinated manner. It will deliver 'best practice' at street level via a quality, improved community safety service which add value to current activity and promote enhanced public satisfaction.
Our Strategy recognises that some of the factors contributing to current crime rates will be beyond our control. We have concentrated on practical measures that are focused on crime and anti-social behaviour, which appear to have the greatest adverse impact on our communities.
In a sense the Strategy is a 'shopping list' for 'tools to do the job' and in terms of crime and disorder. It will assist the Home Office and other funding regimes with the allocation of their available finances to support the Hyndburn Community Safety Partnership for the next fiscal year and beyond. This allocation of funding is therefore extremely important to our success in tackling community safety issues within Hyndburn.
The Strategy is realistic and recognises that it will not be able to resolve all the issues that have been identified. However, it does set out a range of short, medium and long-term priorities for action that we will strive to achieve. Any improvements that occur will be of benefit in the task of combating crime and disorder and will provide a catalyst for improvement in the quality of life.
In order to make the strategy workable the Partnership have identified six thematic groups which cover the whole range of issues that it wishes to impact upon. They are:
- Violent Crime
- Property Crime
- Young People
- Community & Cultural Harmony
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Road Safety
Davina Helm,
Community Safety Officer on 01254 380995
or via e-mail at:- davina.helm@hyndburnbc.gov.uk