Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Decision made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To consider proposals for the award of the
contract.
Relevant Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Regeneration, Community
and Culture
202/2008 The Cabinet awarded the Medway Drug
Intervention Programme element of the contract to Crime Reduction
Initiatives, to take effect from 1 October 2008 and run until 31
March 2011.
Medway Council has a duty to deliver the Drug
Intervention Programme under the terms of the annual Drug
Intervention Programme Home Office Grant. Service delivery needs to
be maintained when the existing contract ends on 30 September 2008.
Effective drug interventions will reduce drug related crime in
Medway. Drug Intervention Programme performance can contribute to
the Partnership's achievement of LAA NI 16 - Serious acquisitive
crime rate, NI 30 - Re-offending rate of priority & prolific
offenders.Crime Reduction Initiatives have a proven successful
track record of delivering Drug Intervention Programme across the
country and delivered 7 out of the 10 highest performing Drug
Interventions Programmes in London in 2007/2008.
Publication date: 02/09/2008
Date of decision: 02/09/2008
Decided at meeting: 02/09/2008 - Cabinet
Effective from: 11/09/2008
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