Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Decision made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To consider the outcome of the fundamental
review of community safety.
137/2006 The Cabinet agreed that the roles of
Medway Warden and Community Safety Street Team Officer be combined.
These officers will be geographically based in teams that map
directly onto the police geographical neighbourhood structure with
separate tasking by each organisation, but close sharing of
intelligence and coordinated problem solving. Routine highways
inspections, waste contract monitoring, litter and environmental
crime and parking will be undertaken by existing staff dedicated to
these functions.
138/2006 The Cabinet agreed that a suitable title be given to the
officers detailed above in order that it is clear and easily
understood by the public.
139/2006 The Cabinet agreed that parking enforcement activities are
separated from those of ward based community safety as their
deployment is very different, and placed under the management of
the traffic and parking service.
140/2006 The Cabinet supported, in relation to decisions 137/2005
and 139/2005, the reorganisation and noted that the Director of
Regeneration and Development will undertake it under delegated
authority.
141/2006 The Cabinet noted that the park rangers will remain under
the management of Green Spaces.
142/2006 The Cabinet agreed that a performance monitoring and
management regime is put in place within the Community Safety and
the frontline task force to reflect the needs of the relevant
targets contained within Corporate Performance Assessment, PSA2 and
BVPI, as set out in Appendix C to the report.
A geographical, ward-based focus to community
safety that acknowledges the move to neighbourhood policing in
Medway to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour by providing a
named individual officer for each ward.A single safer communities
function will be created by combining the current roles of the
Wardens and Community Safety Street Team Officers to remove the
current confusion in the public's mind of the separate roles to
provide a more efficient deployment of staff and to increase public
reassurance.The benefits of keeping the parking enforcement service
separate whilst ensuring that attendants expand their role are to
provide better customer sign posting and reporting of
incidents.
Publication date: 18/07/2006
Date of decision: 18/07/2006
Decided at meeting: 18/07/2006 - Cabinet
Effective from: 27/07/2006
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