Issue - meetings

To provide members with an update on Community Safety Partnership work at a local and county level (report of the Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership which provided members with an update on Community Safety Partnership work at a local and county level.

The Community Safety and Enforcement Manager introduced the report which provided an overview of the work undertaken by the South and East Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership at a local level and the Safer Lincolnshire Partnership at a county level. The report included information which related to CCTV and the Spalding Public Protection Order.

The Community Safety Strategy Action Plan detailed at Appendix A was a working document which would be regularly updated.

SHDC CCTV performance data for 2022-23 was detailed at Appendix B, with area-based CCTV data presented at Appendix C.

SHDC incidents zone analysis data had been included at Appendix D (Q1 and Q2 2022-23) and Appendix E (Q3 2022-23). 

The Community Safety and Enforcement Manager also updated the Panel with the following details of a specific incident not included in the report, where the presence of CCTV had assisted the Police:

• A CCTV operator had observed a firearms incident in Spalding’s Hall Place on 15 January 2023 and had contacted the Police. This was the sole reporting of the incident so without the CCTV operator in place the Police would not have been informed. The CCTV operator continued to monitor the incident and provided the Police control room with updates while appropriate resources were tasked. Despite taking place in darkness, the CCTV provided good quality images of the incident which enabled the identification of the person involved. At the time of the current meeting, the Police were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident.

Members considered the update and made the following comments:

• Members asked whether CCTV could be utilised to identify perpetrators of fly-tipping?
  • The Community Safety and Enforcement Manager responded that CCTV cameras were site specific however surveillance of fly-tipping sites would be picked up through the Enviro-Crime contract. The reporting of local intelligence/fly-tipping blackspots needed to be made to relevant officers, namely: the current ASB and Enforcement Officer (new role title will be Enviro-Crime Officer) who reported to the Head of Public Protection.

• Members were not aware of the White Ribbon Day campaign noted on page 59 of the report and asked how the campaign was promoted.
  • The Community Safety and Enforcement Manager stated that the White Ribbon Day campaign was a national campaign however local promotional methods would be investigated and circulated to the Panel. A different approach would be taken if the campaign was to be supported in the future. 

• Members questioned the South Holland focus within the Community Safety Strategy - most comments had related to Boston and East Lindsey.
  • The Community Safety and Enforcement Manager responded that:
    • South Holland representation had taken place and was ongoing;
    • the Community Safety Strategy Action Plan was in the early stages and would be populated with work that had already taken place in South Holland;
    • some of the campaigns not  ...  view the full minutes text for item 58