Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Projects (SNAPs)

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Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Projects (SNAPs)

• Transforming the CDRPs approach to
  neighbourhood-based operations
• Damian Dallimore Salford Community Safety Unit

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Beat Sweeps (2005-08)

• Beat Sweeps ran in Salford for over three years
• Led by GMFRS
• Week of action
• Partnership approach
• Defined geographical area (usually sub-ward)
• Made significant contribution to reductions in
  ASB
• Desire from CDRP to build upon this model
• Focus on sustainability beyond initial week of
  action

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What Did Beat Sweeps Look Like?

• Started from a position of arson reduction
• Partnership defined by forward-thinking services
  not always based on demand / intelligence
• Action plans not always clearly defined
• Publicity was limited
• Residents not always aware of Beat Sweep
  minimal consultation
• Additional costs incurred by the involvement of
  some services

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Transforming Beat Sweeps

• CDRP asked for a rethink of Beat Sweeps
• Cover an entire ward
• Broader set of outcomes beyond just crime / arson
  reduction
• Better buy in from partners
• Intelligence-led
• Improved engagement with residents
• No additional costs wherever possible
• Sustain the positive outcomes beyond the initial
  week of action

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Aims and Objectives

• Reduction in crime
• Reduction in ASB
• Reduction in arson (NI 33)
• Improve public perception of ASB (NI 17)
• Build upon existing partnership working in
  neighbourhoods

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Branding

• The term Beat Sweep is ambiguous
• Synonymous with enforcement activity
• Promote prevention and intervention approaches
• Focus on sustainability
• Changed the name to Sustainable Neighbourhood
  Action Projects or SNAPs

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Priority areas

• Working at a ward level
• Analysis of areas of need, focusing on
• Levels of recorded crime
• Levels of recorded ASB
• High Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) score
• Low scores in public satisfaction surveys.

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Targeted areas

• To date the following wards have been targeted
• Winton
• Broughton
• Langworthy
• Ordsall
• Little Hulton
• Irwell Riverside
• Walkden North
• Weaste Seedley
• Swinton North
• Boothstown Ellenbrook

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Planning cycle

• Initial planning meeting eight weeks prior to
  operation
• Partnership focuses on following themes
• Crime and disorder.
• Anti-social behaviour (including arson).
• Children young people.
• Drugs and alcohol.
• Environmental improvement.
• Community cohesion and sustainability.
• There is a lead officer for each theme, tasked
  with developing a SMART multi-agency delivery
  plan

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Engagement Strategy

• Leaflets delivered to every property before and
  after each SNAP
• Local press opportunities
• Website including SNAP blog
• Engagement with children young people
• Posters
• Community meetings residents groups
• Residents encouraged to get involved

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Results (after 8 SNAPs)

• 90 arrests for a variety of offences.
• 36 vehicles seized for no tax or insurance.
• 34 drugs warrants executed of which 28 resulted
  in arrests for drugs offences.
• Several cannabis farms have been identified
  including two with a street value of over 20,000
  and one with a street value of 11,500.
• 185 tonnes of bulky waste - including
  refrigerators, settees and other household goods
  - have been collected and disposed of free of
  charge.
• Graffiti removed from approximately 460 sites.

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Results (cont.)

• 143 Fixed Penalty Notices issued for a range of
  offences including dog fouling, littering and
  driving offences.
• Fire and rescue service has conducted over 1750
  home fire risk assessments in the homes of
  vulnerable people, giving out free smoke alarms
  and offering fire safety advice.
• Over 650 young people have participated in some
  form of statutory or voluntary youth provision,
  many of whom doing so for the first time.
• Twelve new alley gate schemes have been
  introduced, with many more existing schemes
  repaired or improved as a result of an
  inspection.