Thurrock Community Safety Partnership

Key Strategic Aims of Thurrock Community Safety Partnership (TCSP)

The Community Safety Partnership exists to build and maintain relationships across the Borough so that those involved in community safety in its widest sense can support each other in the shared pursuit of our strategic aims.

For the period 2008-2011 in particular we will:

  • Reduce incidents of crime, anti-social behaviour and disorder
  • Bring extra support and protection for the vulnerable
  • Reduce death and injury caused through accidents and fires
  • Create a safe community by promoting tolerance and good citizenship

We will also seek to increase awareness of domestic violence, sexual crime and hate crime (crimes motivated by prejudice).

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Terms of Reference

The following file is in PDF format, please see how to access PDFs.

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How are we doing?

Current Performance

Performance

The first year of the 2008/11 crime reduction strategy has seen a 9% reduction in crime overall, that's more than 1,300 less victims of crime.

Vehicle crime (theft of and from) has decreased by 611 (24%), from 2782 to 2171, however Thurrock still continues to be higher than average for vehicle crime and remains a priority for the Partnership.

Serious Acquisitive Crime (NI16) is a new reward indicator for 2009/11, as is NI21 – satisfaction of residents with the Police and Local Authority as to how they deal with crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB).

Priorities

The Partnership priorities for 09/10 continue to be burglary and vehicle crime and domestic abuse. We will also seek to continue to develop and improve links to local businesses, safeguarding adults, Children's Trust and the Sustainable Communities Board on road safety.

Successes & Future Plans

  • The TCSP spent 3 months focusing on addressing local priorities in Chadwell St Mary. It is still too early for full evaluation and there is still ongoing work, however residents' perceptions have improved. We will now link in with the neighbourhood renewal strategy and move onto Tilbury.
  • Community TV was launched on 31st March and is in 10 venues.
  • Selecta DNA has been launched to tackle domestic burglaries in our hot spot areas.
  • Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras are in place in the Borough to deter thieves from entering Thurrock.
  • A crosscutting alcohol harm reduction strategy has been developed and we are in the process with Children's Trust and Healthier Communities of developing the subsequent action plans.
  • Following a review of Our Prolific and Priority Scheme by Government Office we have updated our Strategy to continue to target this group of offenders.

Communication and Engagement

We have commissioned a piece of research regarding perceptions of crime and ASB and are now developing an action plan to improve how we communicate and interact with our residents.

The Essex Police Independent Advisory Group for Thurrock has been refreshed with a new chair and cross cutting membership. They are currently feeding back to the police and Partnership how we can work with the community to improve perceptions and tackle hate crime.

Performance Measures

Local Area Agreement Performance Indicators Target 08/09 Actual 08/09
R07 – Number of incidents of woundings per 1000 as reported to the police 8.73 per 1,000 population 6.75 / 1000 (1013)
R07 - The proportion of all offences classified as Domestic Violence which result in sanctioned detection 65% by 09/10 66.9%
R07 – The proportion of Domestic Violence victims experiencing repeat incidents 25% by 09/10 32.72%
NI 21 – Dealing with concerns about ASB 26.6% by 2010/11 21.6%
NI 16 – Serious acquisitive crime 2010/11: 22.48 / 1000
11.43% reduction against 07/08 baseline 		21.49 / 1000 (3224)
NI 20 – Assault with injury crime rate 7.411 / 1000 (1111) 6.22 / 1,000 (933)
NI 47 – Killed and seriously injured 99.8
11.9% 		2008 - 76
NI 30 – Reoffending rate of prolific and priority offenders data not yet available

The Thurrock Community Safety Partnership (TCSP) published its 3-year strategy for crime and disorder in April 2008.

The strategy set out the Performance targets which were set around the new Community Public service Agreements (PSA’s) in particular with reference to:

  • PSA 23 Make Communities Safer
  • PSA 25 Reduce the Harm Caused by Drugs and Alcohol
  • PSA14 Increase the number of children and young people on the path to success
  • The attached report, reports on progress to the performance measures set out within the 2008/11 strategy. Below is a guide to interpreting the data contained within the report:

Strategy: This lists the driver for the performance indicator.

  • LAA: Thurrock is currently being measured on two local area agreements – 2007/10 and 2008/11. These indicators, if achieved, will attract reward funding for the Borough.
  • National Indicators: These are the Government Indicators established in 2008 to measure delivery of the PSA’s. These are all monitored however do not all have targets set for them
  • Local Indicators: These have been set by the Partnership to monitor performance against local priorities, or because they deliver part of a bigger National Indicator.

Indicator: Description of the performance measurement.

  • IQuanta: Home Office database for reporting Police recorded crime statistics
  • Population: Where measured per head of population, figure used for 2008 was 150,000
  • NI: All National Indicators have a reference number e.g. NI1
  • DV: Domestic Violence
  • ASB: Anti-social Behaviour
  • RTA: Road Traffic Accident
  • LA: Local Authority
  • MARAC: Multi agency risk assessment conference for domestic abuse
  • DIP: Drugs intervention project

Baseline:or B/L.  Number of reports, % or reports per population and the year this was measured in.

08/09 Target: Where applicable the target set for financial year from April 08 to March 09. % imp. Indicates no target but an improvement required on baseline data. Where no target set this is a new indicator and baseline is required.

08/09 Actual: Out turn figure for the financial year from April 08 to March 09. Green indicates target achieved, red not achieved and no colour that no target was set for this indicator.

09/10: Target for this financial year

10/11: Target for financial year 10/11 where applicable.

Best H/L: Indicates whether best performance is high or low. Particularly relevant for perception indicators.

Actions Planned:The actions, which members of the TCSP have committed to to improve those indicators that are not performing well

Risk to Indicator: Noted risks to deliver of indicators in this financial year.

The Thurrock Community Safety Partnership Performance Report 2008/11 is available below (please see how to access PDFs):

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Contact Details for the Community Safety Partnership

  • Thurrock Community Safety Partnership
  • Civic Offices
  • New Road
  • Grays
  • RM17 6SL

Telephone Number: 01375 652301

E-mail:

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Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy

Strategy 2008-2011

The Partnership has a legal responsibility to ensure that a crime and disorder reduction strategy is produced and implemented with strategic objectives monitored and evaluated. The Partnerships are supported regionally by the decentralised Government Offices. The Government Office for Thurrock is the GO East Team based at Cambridge.

Both the full TCSP Strategy 2008-2011 and a summary are available below (please see how to access PDFs):

Strategy 2005-2008

The TCSP Strategy 2005-2008 is available below (please see how to access PDFs):

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Thurrock Council's Community Safety Strategy

The Thurrock Council strategy sets out the Council's approach to tackling community safety, and crime and disorder issues within Thurrock, and will assist the Council in continuing its work towards achieving targets against both National and Local Indicators, as well as demonstrating Thurrock Council's strong commitment to Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

The Strategy will be reviewed annually and updated in collaboration with the Thurrock Community Safety Partnership, and its strategies and plans.

Thurrock Council's contribution to the Thurrock Community Safety Partnership has helped to achieve some encouraging crime reduction figures. Between April and October 2009 compared with April and October 2008 there have been 755 less crimes, which means 755 less victims.

A small number of copies of the Strategy will be available for Thurrock residents in a paper and bound format for those who do not have internet access.

The full Thurrock Community Safety Strategy is available as a PDF (see how to access PDFs):

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Thurrock Community Safety Partnership Structure

The structure of the Thurrock Community Safety Partnership is outlined in a diagram below (please see how to access PDFs):

Thurrock Community Safety Partnership Information Sharing Protocol

The Thurrock Community Safety Partnership has a protocol to facilitate data sharing between signatory partners in the implementation of the crime and disorder reduction strategy for 2008/11. For further information contact us at safer.thurrock@thurrock.gov.uk

The full protocol is available below (please see how to access PDFs):

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Help Impact Essex Policing

Supported by Essex Police, the independent Advisory Group provides unbiased advice and opinions on a wide range of race-related issues and incidents. The Group inform policy and decision-making, as well as ensuring transparency and fairness.

We are looking for volunteers who are able to meet every two months as a group and to attend meetings with senior officers at short notice in the case of serious incidents. You should be articulate, passionate and committed and prepared to provide an objective personal opinion without representing any particular gmup or section of socie. You do not have to be a pillar of the community or have any specific experience: we want members from ordinary backgrounds who can reflect the community we serve.

Additionally we are also looking for volunteers who have an awareness or insight into the needs and issues of Thurrocks diverse community of children.

For more information, email thurrockiag@aol.com.

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Useful Links to external web sites

Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 - call anonymously with information about crime.