City Centre Safe

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City Centre Safe

• Steve Greenacre
• Jan Brown
• City Centre Safe Unit
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail - jan.brown_at_gmp.police.uk
• Steven.greenacre_at_gmp.police.uk
• www.citycentresafe.com

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City Centre Safe

• Holistic partnership initiative focused on night
  time economy.
• Look at the problems caused by alcohol misuse in
  their entirety.
• Work in close partnership with licensing trade at
  all levels and wide variety of private and public
  sector partners.
• Worked closely with Government on national
  alcohol strategy , 2003 licensing act.

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Challenges of the Night Time Economy

• Vastly increased number of users
• Manchester - 250 increase in licensed premises
• Licensed capacity 260,000
• Up to 120,000 drinkers on busy Saturday night
• No corresponding increase in resources

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Challenges of the Night Time Economy

• Competition for limited resources
• Lack of Authority Figures in public spaces
• Growing pains of night time infrastructure
• How do people get home ?

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Aims

• To reduce the number of serious assaults and
  glass related injuries
• To work in partnership with the licensed trade to
  improve the management of licensed premises
• Promote the provision of safe drinking
• Reduce perception of drunkenness, rowdiness and
  disorder

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Principles of City Centre Safe

• Fresh Approach an end to recriminations and
  blame
• Shared resources and partnership an end to the
  silo mentality
• Concentrate on shared solutions communal
  ownership
• Set shared standards and goals
• Look at what works and tell people about it !
• If you do what youve always done. Youll get
  what you always got.

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Strategies

• Alcohol Bye-Law - Targeted Policing
• Model - Late Night Transport
• Safe Havens Scheme - Secure
• Transport Corridors - Taxi Safe
• Top Ten Enforcement Scheme
• Multi Agency Licensing Visits
• Manchester Best Bar None Award
• Server Training
• Alcohol Arrest Referral Scheme
• Social Norms Marketing

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Managing Public Spaces

• Alcohol Bye Law
• Be aware of ripple effect !
• Hot spot foot patrol early intervention
• Night Time Security Blanket pool resources
• Co-ordinate resources Policing Triangle

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Achieving the Tipping Point

• Late Night Transport -
• Limited number of bus stops, routes.
• Secure Transport Corridors
• Night Bus Branding
• Employment of bus loaders
• Lighting, CCTV, Bottle Bins
• Nite Net radios
• CCTV emergency help points
• Safe Havens
• Dedicated police support

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Taxi Safe

• Replicates principles of night bus scheme
• Taxi Marshals
• Nite net radios, CCTV, bottle bins, dedicated
  police support etc.
• Taxi enforcement nights
• Tackling bogus operators
• Take a taxi you can trust marketing campaigns

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Managing Licensed Premises - Aims

• Setting shared standards
• Working together, shared goals
• Support and enforce against agreed violations
• Mixed usage, increase diversity increase business
• Vibrant safe city centres

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Data Collection

• Whats really going on ?
• Distinguish between good operators and bad
• What impact are they having on crime

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Manchester Best Bar None

• Annual award scheme - first awards March 2003.
• Result of extensive consultation
• Establishes industry standard
• Rigid application and inspection process
• Landmark on local social scene, commercially
  attractive
• Best Bar None logo - a quality kite mark of a
  safe venue

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Licensing Enforcement

• Analysis 51 assaults inside licensed premises
• Top Ten Enforcement Scheme
• Action Plan Joint Agency Licensing Action
  Committee (JALAC)
• Multi Agency targeted visits
• Clear audit trail of evidence
• Empowerment of partners
• Risk Assessments
• Proven Crime Reduction Techniques

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Social Marketing

• Provide simple coping strategies
• Changing harmful behaviours
• Paint picture of reality not reinforce negative
  perceptions
• Market success !
• Manchester 2,500,000 visitors per week, average
  weekly number of serious assaults 3.5

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