Preston - Partnership Details

The Partnership also includes representation at various levels from the Primary Care Trust, Probation Service, Fire and Rescue Service, Youth Offending Team, Lancashire Drug Action Team, Drugline Lancashire, Lancashire Police Authority, Housing Associations, Victim Support, Preston Care and Repair and Preston Prison, among others.

The Partnership currently operates through an Executive Group which sets direction and policy and is responsible for Partnership Development, a Co-ordinating Group which oversees the implementation of the Community Safety Strategy, and a number of thematic groups which take forward individual aims of the Strategy.

The Partnership has a statutory duty to produce a Community Safety Strategy every three years. This latest Strategy sets targets and action plans for tackling crime and disorder in the years 2002 - 2005.

The Community Safety Partnership's aims are:

Youth Issues
Tackle youth issues, to reduce associated crime and disorder.
Anti-Social Behaviour
To tackle serious and persistent Anti-Social Behaviour, and related crime, including Criminal Damage
Violent Crime
Reduce the level of violent crime.
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Substance Misuse
Tackle the misuse of drugs, alcohol and solvents, to reduce associated crime and disorder.
Mainstreaming
To ensure that each function performed by each partner agency takes into account the need to do all that is reasonably possible to reduce crime and disorder
City Centre Crime
To manage and reduce crime and concerns related to crime impacting on Preston City Centre
Prolific and Priority Offenders
To manage and reduce offending by prolific and other priority offenders, and to seek to reduce the numbers who develop into prolific and other priority offenders, by use of three strands - Prevent and Deter, Catch and Convict, Rehabilitate and Resettle.

Key Contacts

Michelle Loftus
Community Safety Manager
Preston City Council
P.O.Box 10
Town Hall
Preston
PR1 2RL

01772 903417

01772 903440

m.loftus@preston.gov.uk

Chief Inspector Richard Blackburn
Chief Inspector Community Safety

01772 209003
richard.blackburn@lancashire.pnn.police.uk

Keith Gillies
District Team manager
Lancashire Youth & Community Services
Lower Ground Floor
JDO
East Cliff
Preston
PR1 3JT

01772 531805
01772 261924
kieth.gillies@ed.lancscc.gov.uk