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Crime and Disorder Report

Meeting: 15/11/2023 - Performance Monitoring Panel (Item 40)

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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.