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. This first strategic assessment identified four broad priority areas and was used to develop the new Community Safety Strategy, now known as the 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 by out of area offenders

  • Alcohol related violent crime, particularly violence in licensed premises

  • Youth violence, including youth on youth and knives

  • Hate crime incidents

  • Sale of alcohol to children and those under the age of 18

  • Domestic Abuse

Anti-social behaviour:

  • Speeding

  • Parking on verges/pavements

  • Damage in car parks

  • Young people hanging around shops and play areas

  • Noise nuisance

  • Fly tipping in "hotspot" areas, notably Goldsworth Park, Old Woking, Kingfield & Westfield, Sheerwater and Horsell

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

  • Rubbish and litter

  • ASB in areas where there is a high proportion of rented property (especially housing association)

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

  • The wider involvement of members of the community in efforts to address crime and community safety issues.

Data quality and collection:

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