Decision details

To review the Community Safety Partnership Plan, taking into account information arising from the Medway Community Safety Partnership Strategic Assessment and Medway’s Sustainable Community Strategy. 

This report provided details of the progress towards developing a new Community Safety Partnership Plan 2009-2012. The Police and Justice Act 2006 had placed a statutory requirement to produce an annual rolling three year plan, underpinned by an annual strategic assessment, for the purpose of reducing crime and disorder and combating substance misuse.

The six priorities for 2009-2012, which had been reviewed and refreshed, were: Tackling Substance Misuse, Tackling Anti Social Behaviour, including criminal damage, Reducing Repeat Business of Violent Crime, Improving Local Street Scene, Reducing your worry of crime and disorder and Improving your confidence in Medway Community Safety Partnership.

The plan had been considered by the Regeneration, Community and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 6 July 2010 and the Committee’s views were set out in section 6 of the report.

As a policy framework document the revised Community Safety Partnership Plan 2009 – 2012 would be referred to Council on 29 July 2010 for approval.

The outcome of a diversity impact assessment screening was attached to the report. It was noted that a full diversity impact assessment would be required as part of the planning process when the plan is rewritten in 2012.