Community safety

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Community safety

• Working in partnership with the police

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• Gayle Rossiter Head of Corporate
  InformationThames Valley Police
• Cath Blake Senior Community Safety Co-ordinator
  Buckinghamshire County Council

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• Community safety is a priority for police
• Want to work in partnership
• Want to share responsibility

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• Crime stats care needed
• New statutory responsibilities from July
• - Gov wants local crime information available
  on a monthly and consistent basis to local
  communities

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Reducing fear of crime

• Keep plugging away
• Other factors have significant impact
• Media play key role

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Thames Valley Police area

• 3 counties and 16 CDRPs

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What are we trying to achieve?

• Joined up community safety campaigns on a county
  basis
• Limited success but moving in the right
  direction
• Value for money

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What do you get?

• Joint press releases
• Combined activity
• Shared expertise along with a shared workload!
• Potential for Bigger and Better
• Working relationship with the media

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Key messages

• Community safety is priority for police
• We need a community safety comms professional to
  work with
• Police dont need to drive campaigns
• Consider county structure
• Tell us about your initiatives
• Attend police media briefings

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Community safety

• Working in partnership with the police