Community Safety

What is Community Safety?

Community Safety is about reducing and tackling crime and disorder within the district.  It is working in Partnership with other agencies; to make the local area in which we live a safer environment.

"The term 'community safety' is seen as having both situational and social aspects, as well as being concerned with people, communities and organisations, including families, victims, and risk groups as well as attempting to reduce particular types of crime and the fear of crime. Community Safety should be seen as the legitimate concern of all in the local community.” Source: Safer Communities, Home Office 1991.

Community Safety Partnership

The purpose of Community Safety Partnerships is to promote and build a safer community by identifying the causes of crime and anti social behaviour and developing and implementing effective solutions.

It was agreed that to do this successfully a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and reduction was needed. The Crime and Disorder Act 1998, said that should involve the statutory, voluntary and business sectors within these partnerships. It was recommended that a statutory duty to develop these partnerships should be created and placed on the police and local authorities. This is one of the key implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and has been further developed by the Police Reform Act 2002.

Contacts

01327 302519

Community Safety Officer

Communities Team

Daventry District Council 

Lodge Road

Daventry

Northants

NN11 4FP

Also link to:

Anti-social behaviour

Hate Crime / Incidents

Crime Prevention & Home security

CCTV

Support and Assistance