Issue - meetings

1.                Community Safety Partnership Strategies

(Cabinet, 18 October 2011)

The Crime & Disorder Act 1998 (and subsequent amendments) requires the county council (including Fire and Rescue Services) and statutory Community Safety partners to work in partnership to reduce crime and disorder in their local area.

These partnerships are the four Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) of Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire, Cherwell, Oxford City and West Oxfordshire.

Working together, each CSP is required to produce three year, rolling community safety strategies to tackle crime and disorder.  The county council, as one of the responsible authorities, must be represented on the CSPs and must contribute, through its wide range of services, to delivering the strategies and associated action plans.  It is also required, along with the other responsible authorities, to agree and publish the strategies.

The 2011-14 three-year rolling Community Safety Strategies aim to address crime, anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime.  Priorities reflect national, countywide and local concerns, including issues raised in consultation with local people. 

Priorities were also identified following the 2010 Strategic Intelligence Assessment, which replaced the three year community safety audits.

Cabinet considered the Strategies together with a report that included views from Members and the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny Committee in particular and recommended them to Council for approval.

Council is RECOMMENDED to approve the Community Safety Strategies for Oxfordshire 2011-14.

The Crime & Disorder Act 1998 (and subsequent amendments) requires the county council (including Fire and Rescue Services) and statutory Community Safety partners to work in partnership to reduce crime and disorder in their local area. The Council had before them the report to Cabinet, which included views from Members and the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny Committee in particular, together with the four Community Safety Partnership Strategies of Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire, Cherwell, Oxford City and West Oxfordshire.

RESOLVED:            (on a motion proposed by Councillor Mallon, seconded by Councillor Heathcoat and carried unanimously) to approve the Community Safety Strategies for Oxfordshire 2011-14.

Cabinet Member: Police & Policy Co-ordination

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/150

Contact: Ruth Whyte, Safer Communities Manager, Tel: (01865) 815396

Report by Director for Social & Community Services (CA12).

The Crime & Disorder Act 1998 (and subsequent amendments) requires the county council (including Fire and Rescue Services) and statutory Community Safety partners to work in partnership to reduce crime and disorder in their local area.

These partnerships are the four Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) of Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire, Cherwell, Oxford City and West Oxfordshire.

Working together, each CSP is required to produce three year, rolling community safety strategies to tackle crime and disorder.  The county council, as one of the responsible authorities, must be represented on the CSPs and must contribute, through its wide range of services, to delivering the strategies and associated action plans.  It is also required, along with the other responsible authorities, to agree and publish the strategies.

The 2011-14 three-year rolling Community Safety Strategies aim to address crime, anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime.  Priorities reflect national, countywide and local concerns, including issues raised in consultation with local people. 

Priorities were also identified following the 2010 Strategic Intelligence Assessment, which replaced the three year community safety audits.

RECOMMENDATION

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the views from Members and the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny Committee in particular, and to RECOMMEND the Council to approve the Community Safety Strategies for Oxfordshire 2011-14.

RESOLVED:                         to note the views from Members generally and the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny Committee in particular, and to RECOMMEND the Council to approve the Community Safety Strategies for Oxfordshire 2011-14.