Community safety aims and priorities

Since 2007, the Safer Woking Partnership has been required to carry out an annual strategic assessment. This provides intelligence and evidence of local crime and disorder problems. The strategic assessment helps identify broad priority areas that enable the development of the annual Partnership Plan.

Aims

The Safer Woking Partnership has the following aims:

  • Promote crime prevention to maintain the low levels of crime and disorder

  • Promoting reassurance - to involve the public and work with all communities to reduce the fear of crime and provide people with a sense of safety and reassurance.

The partnership will:

  • Work jointly with other statutory and voluntary agencies

  • Build capacity within the neighbourhoods and communities to enable them to contribute to the delivery of the aims of this plan.

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Priorities

The following priorities were identified from the strategic assessment and a review of current issues and challenges:

Crime

  • Theft from vehicles (sat-navs and number plates)

  • Dwelling burglaries

  • Alcohol related violent crime and Public Place Violence

  • Domestic Abuse

Anti-social behaviour

  • Confidence and Customer Satisfaction

  • Anti-social driving, traffic and parking issues

  • Fly tipping in "hotspot" areas

  • Hazardous drinking of alcohol i.e. above sensible levels

Community Reassurance

  • Perceived personal safety of females and older members of the community, when they are out and about in the area, especially after dark

Fire

  • Continued attention to suspicious fires

Data quality and collection

  • The continued sharing of data and information, with greater alignment of data sets - e.g. geography, time based

  • The need for better quality intelligence in relation to drug use and dealing in the area, especially in relation to Methamphetamine