The Safe Durham Partnership has produced an Anti-social Behaviour Strategy 2011-14. You can download a copy below.
Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy 2011-14.pdf (38 pages, 963kb)
Yuo can also download the Safe Durham Partnership Anti-social Behaviour information leaflet below.
Anti-Social Behaviour Information Booklet.pdf (2 pages, 997kb)
Anti-social Behaviour Reduction Thematic Group
The Anti-social Behaviour Reduction Group will develop a responsive, consistent and coordinated approach to bring together activity that provides highly visible and coordinated action (Prevention, Intervention, Education and Enforcement) against anti-social behaviour and environmental crimes often referred to as ‘signal crimes’.
Priorities
Our long term priorities are to:
- Increase public confidence in the ability of partners to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour issues that matter to communities
- Reduce police recorded incidents of anti social behaviour and low level crime that affect our communities
- Reduce the number of secondary deliberate fires
- Create a high quality clean, green, attractive and accessible environment
Achievements
Anti-social behaviour was introduced as a priority area in 2010 in order to develop a new strategic partnership approach.
A new Strategy was rolled out in 2011 which includes Enforcement, Prevention, Support and Communication elements.
The Partnership aims to continue the trend of reductions in Police recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour. There are now 10,000 fewer incidents being reported than there were three years ago.
Minimum standards of service delivery have been developed so that the public know what service they can expect should they be victims or witnesses of anti-social behaviour.
Local Multi-Agency Problem Solving (LMAPS) groups have been established across the County to address local concerns regarding crime and anti-social behaviour. They focus on emerging and long-term problems that cannot be effectively resolved by any
single agency.
An escalation policy has been developed and implemented. It provides a consistent model for a range of organisations to deal effectively with perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. It uses a range of interventions and has been successful in ensuring that the majority stop their behaviour, with only a small minority needing to be dealt with through enforcement measures.
‘Not In My Neighbourhood’ initiatives have been put in place in many areas of the County, bringing a number of different public services together in order to strengthen feelings of community safety and social cohesion.
The Safer Schools Partnership was introduced to improve integration and partnership working between schools, police and relevant partners. It aims to improve community outcomes through reductions in crime and anti-social behaviour.