The SaferPeterborough Partnership Plan summary 2008-11

"Safer Peterborough is a new partnership made up of several local organisations, all determined to reduce crime and the fear of crime in our city.

 

"You have told us that you are worried about crime and anti-social behaviour, and we have listened to your concerns. Based on your feedback, we have chosen five key areas we will concentrate on over the coming three years.

 

"These five areas are serious acquisitive crime, anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, violent crime including alcohol-related crime and disorder, and sexual offences.

"Of course, for all the agencies involved in Safer Peterborough, business also goes on as usual, but as a partnership we want to make a particular difference in these key areas.

 

"We hope that by focusing on the things that will improve life for most people in the city, as well as supporting those who need it, we will see some positive changes.

 

"All of the organisations involved in Safer Peterborough are working hard together to make sure we deliver on our promises and make Peterborough an even better place in which to live, work and visit."

Chris Strickland
Assistant Chief Fire Officer

 

The Safer Peterborough Partnership

There are lots of organisations working hard to improve the safety of people in Peterborough. We need these organisations to work well together if we are to deliver on our promises.

 

These organisations must think about how community safety will be affected every time they make a decision.  As well as these responsible authorities, other members of the partnership include the Probation Service; Cross Keys Homes on behalf of housing providers such as housing associations; Victim Support; Bridgegate Drug Agency; Drinksense; Peterborough Racial Equality Council; HMP Peterborough and many other voluntary and community organisations.

We will focus our activity and our Weeks of Action on the most vulnerable neighbourhoods in our city. Weeks of Action are where people from different organisations work together in an area to make a positive difference to that community.

 

Each of our five priorities will have what is known as a 'task and finish' group, bringing together the people who can make a real difference and tackle the issues concerned.

 

These people will use their experience to draw up an action plan that will set out clearly what they are going to do and when they are going to do them.

 

These action plans will be closely scrutinised by a 'delivery board' which will make sure that the action plans are delivered successfully.

 

The delivery board will also look at the things that are working really well and make sure that we use these ideas in other areas.

 

We will make these plans available on our website:
www.peterborough.gov.uk/saferpeterborough

 

We will monitor a certain number of 'indicators' which will tell us how we're doing.

 

We work out our current performance and set ourselves a target for improvement.

For example, we want more people to tell us if they have been a victim of a sexual offence so this improvement target will be for an increase. On the other hand, we want there to be less serious acquisitive crimes so this target will be for a reduction.

 

Every month we will look at how we are doing and, if necessary, change our activities to make sure we reach our targets.

 

It is important that we keep you up to date with what we are doing.

 

We will use the following methods to keep you informed of our progress:

• Through a number of web pages at www.peterborough.gov.uk/saferpeterborough
• In the council's magazine, Your Peterborough
• At two 'face the public' events every year
• Through the local media for specific issues
• Through direct communications activity during our regular 'Weeks of Action'

 

We will revise our plan every year, taking into account how the picture of crime has changed in the city, and whether your priorities have changed.

 

You are welcome to see any documents produced by the SaferPeterborough Partnership and to talk to staff from the team at any time.  The team can be contacted on (01733) 864120 or by email saferpeterborough@peterborough.gov.uk.