Community Safety Partnership (CSP)

The Community Safety Partnerships Priorities:

Help people to feel safe within their homes & local community

We aim to do this by:

• Reducing residents vulnerability to burglary & theft.
• Increasing public knowledge of the management of fire safety risks within the home, including for consumer products.
• Promoting the PAL scheme amongst potential tenants, landlords, and other stakeholders.
• Taking a partnership approach to tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) in the borough.
• Reducing fly tipping and the impact it has on the local environment, increasing reporting to capture true nature of issue.
• Enforcing Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) that are in place in Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City.

Safeguard vulnerable people

We aim to do this by:

• Raising awareness and provide support to those with an identified vulnerability, including but not limited to substance and alcohol misuse & dependency, complex needs and dual diagnosis.
• Supporting the Rough Sleeping Strategy to reduce rough sleepers/begging and encourage those who are rough sleeping/begging to access support available.
• Working together with Herts Modern Slavery Unit to raise awareness of Modern-Day Slavery & Human Trafficking & prevent it happening in the first place.
• Supporting our community to report Hate Crime.
• Promoting Scam & Fraud awareness, including continuing to work with the Shared Anti-Fraud Service.
• Protecting young people from exploitation & sexual harm, including young people from out of Borough going missing from care homes.

Support and protect victims of domestic abuse and prevent future harm

We aim to do this by:

• Raising awareness of domestic abuse services available locally to support victims and their families.
• Increasing knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse trends locally, with a view to tackling the causes.
• Promoting and provide educational sessions and tools to young people which relate to domestic abuse, for example:
  • Healthy relationships
  • Misogyny
  • Consent
• Engaging with minority groups (including men and carers) to support and safeguard against domestic abuse.
• Using enforcement and support available to reduce repeat perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Working in partnership to prevent and tackle serious violence and sexual violence

We aim to do this by:

• Focusing on dismantling drug lines and associated serious violence and criminality within the CSP by joint working with relevant teams and Community Safety Units.
• Reducing the risk of cuckooing in the borough and identify victims quickly to prevent serious harm.
• Protecting young people from becoming involved in serious youth violence and/or habitually carrying knives by taking a prevention first approach.
• Working together to prevent violence against women and girls.
• Working together to raise awareness of local support service for victims of sexual abuse and rape.