Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership
Safer Cotswolds Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) has been operating for a number of years following the introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The CDRP’s vision is to work as partners and support other agencies and individuals to be effective in community activity with particular emphasis on:-
- Reducing crime and the fear of crime
- Combating illegal drugs and substance misuse
- Building stronger communities
The CDRP is a statutory group and its lead body known as the Executive Group meets every two months and includes membership from:-
- Gloucestershire Police Authority
- Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Gloucestershire County Council
- Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust
- Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
- Cotswold District Council
Many other non-statutory partners also work within the CDRP to help reduce crime and anti-social behaviour including Parish and Town Councils, Neighbourhood Watch Association, Registered Social Landlords, Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Prospects (Youth Services), Schools and Colleges, Probation Service, Young Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, Churn Neighbourhood Project. Sometimes residents’ groups
The priorities of the Partnership are:-
- Reduce the impact of crime and disorder on young people in the district (particularly reducing the number of victims)
- Reduce the numbers of domestic burglaries
- Reduce the numbers of assault causing serious injury
- Reduce incidents which cause public concern, namely public disorder, misuse of alcohol and other substances and incidents of criminal damage
- Undertake local initiatives to help reduce road collisions involving death and serious injury
- Improve residents’ perceptions of crime and use every opportunity to reassure them through the consultation process.
Activities include information-sharing, deployment of CCTV systems, initiatives against alcohol and other substance misuse, graffiti removal, operations to counteract bogus callers who prey on the vulnerable, environmental improvements, minor street lighting projects, supporting positive opportunities for young people.
This work is invariably carried out through the CDRP’s territorial and thematic groups operating across the Cotswolds.
The Chair of the Partnership from April 2008 is Chief Inspector Derek Jones, Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Lead contact:
Les Haines,
Principal Community Safety Officer,
Cotswold District Council,
Trinity Road, Cirencester,
Glos GL7 1PX.
Tel: (01285) 623000
Fax: (01285) 623923.
e-mail: les.haines@cotswold.gov.uk