Community Safety Partnership (CSP)

The Community Safety Partnerships Priorities:

Help people to feel safe within their homes & local community

We aim to do this by:

• Reducing residents vulnerability to burglary & theft.
• Increasing public knowledge of the management of fire safety risks within the home.
• Promoting the PAL scheme amongst potential tenants, landlords, and other stakeholders.
• Taking a partnership approach to tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) in the borough.
• Reducing fly tipping and the impact it has on the local environment.

Safeguard vulnerable people

We aim to do this by:

• Raising awareness of the impact of substance & alcohol misuse.
• Supporting the Rough Sleeping Strategy to reduce rough sleepers/begging and minimise related risks.
• Working together with Herts Modern Slavery Unit to support victims of Modern Day Slavery & Human Trafficking & prevent it happening in the first place.
• Supporting our community to report Hate Crime.
• The promotion of Scam & Fraud awareness.
• Sharing information & data across agencies to better support those with complex needs & dual diagnosis.
• Protecting young people from exploitation & sexual harm.

Support and protect victims of domestic abuse and prevent future harm

We aim to do this by:

• Raising awareness of domestic abuse services available locally to support victims and their families.
• Increasing knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse locally, with a view to tackling the causes.
• Promoting healthy relationships education to young people.
• Working with local agencies to support victims of domestic abuse.
• Enforcing against perpetrators and increasing support available to reduce repeat perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Working in partnership to prevent and tackle serious violence

We aim to do this by:

• Focusing on dismantling drug lines and associated serious violence and criminality within the CSP by joint working with Operation Scorpion and Community Safety Units.
• Reducing the risk of cuckooing in the borough and identify victims quickly to prevent serious harm.
• Protecting young people from becoming involved in serious youth violence by taking a prevention first approach.
• Reducing the number of people carrying knives via targeted initiatives and a prevention first approach.
• Working together to prevent violence against women and girls.