Safe Neighbourhood

What does this mean?

• Violence in the night-time economy: Reducing actual violent crime and the fear of crime at night.
• Domestic abuse: Reducing domestic abuse, particularly the number of repeat incidents.
• Criminal damage: Bringing levels of criminal damage down to compare more favourably with the rest of Kent.
• Anti-Social Behaviour: Reducing levels of anti-social behaviour so that it has less impact on the lives of local residents.
• Involving Residents: Working with residents to deal with their concerns by involving them in improving safety in their local neighbourhoods.

Why is this important?

• Residents in Thanet do not feel as safe at night as residents in other Kent districts;
• Crimes at night have fallen compared to last year but remain high compared to the rest of Kent;
• Thanet has the highest levels of domestic abuse in Kent. This impacts on other services including housing, social services and education;
• Over the last 12 months Thanet had the highest levels of criminal damage in the whole of Kent;
• Local residents say that tackling anti-social behaviour in the area they live is a high priority.

  How will we measure success?

What are we going to do?

The following projects are the key pieces of work we are going to carry out over the next three years, over and above our general day to day activities.

Violence in the night-time economy

• Extending CCTV monitoring during busy night-time periods (Start: May 09 - Finish: Dec 09)
• Extending the Marine Terrace model of targeting specific problems into Ramsgate and Broadstairs (start: May 09 - Finish: Dec 09)

Domestic abuse

• Tackling abusers through a multi-agency approach focussing on enforcement, prevention and support (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Mar 10)

Criminal damage

• Reduce levels of graffiti by implementing the graffiti strategy (Start: Apr 09 - Finish Mar 10)
• Help with 2 operations to target graffiti taggers in partnership with Kent Police (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Mar 10)

Anti-social behaviour

• Increase the use of measures including Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, Acceptable Behaviour Agreements and Dispersal Areas (Start: Apr 09 - Finish Mar 10)
• Increase the use of the Mediation Service to deal with neighbour disputes (Start: Apr 09 - Finish Mar 10)
• In certain areas work to improve older people’s perceptions of young people in their neighbourhood (Start: May 09 - Finish: Sep 09)

Involving Residents

• Working with the Police to improve awareness and effectiveness of the PACTs (Police and Community Together) (Start: Apr 09 - Finish Jun 09)
• Improving how the council contributes and responds to issues raised at PACTs (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Jun 09)
• Maximise the benefits of being a pioneer area for the crime and justice initiative (Start: Apr 09 - Finish Mar 10)

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• Healthy Communities
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Corporate Improvement Manager

Email: sophie.chadwick @thanet.gov.uk

Tel: 01843 577180