Community Safety Task Group

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Community Safety Task Group

• Community, Health and Social Care

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What is this group about?

• Community Safety is a very important subject for
  all residents. This is a way of ensuring that
  community concerns are recognised.
• Different from some of the other task groups in
  that most of the work has to be carried out by
  agencies e.g. Police, Housing, Fire Service etc.
  
• Is a very useful way of communicating with
  community groups about crime trends.
• Very useful way of collecting community
  intelligence.

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Membership

• Members of the community representing a variety
  of different organisations.
• Neighbourhood Manager
• Neighbourhood Police Inspector
• Fire Station Commander
• Community Development Worker
• Magistrate

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Task Group Work

• Ensuring that matters of concern are raised e.g.
  Pedestrianised area, theft of precious materials,
  anti-social behaviour hotspots.
• Feed into the Local Partnership Delivery Group
  process (multi-agency meeting addressing hotspots
  and individuals)
• Feed information from the Police, Fire Service
  and others back into the community.
• Determine the priorities for the Community
  Justice Court.

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What next?

• Looking at additional measures for the Town
  Centre pedestrianised area.
• Concentrating on helping to prevent burglaries by
  using community networks and local intelligence
  to prevent and help with information.
• Promote Homewatch
• Continue to feed into the Community Justice
  process.

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Why is this group important

• Provides regular dialogue between the
  Neighbourhood Inspector and members of the
  Community.
• Brings partners with responsibility for community
  safety together with residents to help address
  problems.
• Is useful feedback mechanism for residents.
• Residents get to set the priorities for Community
  Justice to ensure that Magistrates are aware of
  community problems and priorities.