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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).
Additional documents:
Minutes:
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 included an update
on the following areas:
- South and East
Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership which included:
anti-social behaviour (ASB); hate crime; safer streets and
night-time economy; the safety of women and girls; and
vulnerability and safeguarding;
- SHDC anti-social
behaviour enforcement team activity which highlighted an increase
in complex cases;
- Community Warden
role;
- CCTV;
- Neighbourhood
Policing;
- Public Space
Protection Order (PSPO); and
- Safter Lincolnshire Partnership
(SLP).
The following information was
appended to the report:
- Community Safety
Strategy Action Plan 2023-2024 at Appendix A;
- 7 Minute briefing
Violence Against Women and Girls at Appendix B;
- ASB in South Holland
at Appendix C;
- Annual CCTV Report
2022-2023 at Appendix D;
- SHDC Parishes CCTV
Performance Data Q1 and Q2 at Appendix E;
- Neighbourhood
Policing Commitment Booklet 2023 at Appendix F; and
- Safer Lincolnshire
Partnership Report at Appendix G. An updated Appendix G (appended
to the minutes) had been made available since the publication of
the agenda which detailed key actions in the following
areas:
- The ASB Core Priority
Group - progress continued with the Task and Finish Groups in
respect of noise nuisance;
- The Crime and
Disorder Core Priority Group – partnership work with Trading
Standards and Lincolnshire Police had led to the installation of 80
call blocker units in 2022/2023 and had resulted in direct
financial savings; communication and engagement activities also
sought to raise awareness of online criminal traders;
- The Reducing
Reoffending Core Priority Group -
funding had been secured to progress the Lincolnshire Women and
Girls Strategy and the development of a Women’s Centre
Approach for Lincolnshire;
- The Drug and Alcohol
Core Priority Group; and
- The Serious Violence
Core Priority Group.
Regarding the recommendation of
the report in the respect of complex cases, the Community Safety
and Enforcement Manager relayed the following:
- An increased and
cyclical trend in ASB cases had been identified relating to drug,
alcohol and mental health concerns; and
- Opportunities to
explore best practices was called for, in order to resolve the
issue and help ongoing cases.
Members considered the update
and made the following comments:
- Members referred to
3.7 of the report which showed a map of reported ASB incidents in
the district and asked why all incidents had not been included.
Members asked to be informed of trends in their wards.
- The Community Safety
and Enforcement Manager responded that:
- Work was underway
with the software provider to ensure that all incidents were
mapped;
- The mapping exercise
deliberately located reports to a general ward zone, rather than
being zoned at street level, so that individuals could not be
identified; the reporting of incidents/trends to members whilst
ensuring anonymity was therefore challenging however possibilities
would be investigated; and
- The map could be used
by members to encourage reporting where concerns had not been
raised.