Agenda and draft minutes

Dacorum Community Safety Partnership - Wednesday, 25th May, 2016 7.30 am

Venue: Council Chamber, The Forum. View directions

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Minutes:

 

DACORUM COMMUNITY

SAFETY PARTNERSHIP

 

 

M I N U T E S

 

7.30 pm Wednesday 25 May 2016

Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Hemel Hempstead

 

Present:

 

Cllr Neil Harden (Chairman)               Dacorum Borough Council

Kayley Johnston                                 Member Support Officer

Dave Moore                                        DBC – Community Safety Coordinator

Helen Quinn                                        Herts Constabulary – Policy Officer Police and Crime Commissioner

Frank                                                   Resident

F Karikam                                           Resident

John Bowden                                      Resident

Jo Hudson                                           HMP - The Mount

Ben Richardson                                  Bovingdon PC

Spencer Bunce                                   NHW Co-Ord Boxmoor

Phil Waine                                           Herts Constabulary (Watch Liaison Officer)

George Holland                                   Inspector- Dacorum Safer Neighbourhood Team

Billy McGill                                          Dacorum Fire and Rescue District Commander

Cllr R Taylor

Cllr M Griffith

Cllr J Madden

Cllr T Fethney

Cllr T Howard

Cllr T Douris

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Introductions and Apologies for absence

 

 

 

Apologies were received from: Cllr W Wyatt-Lowe, Mahmood, Mathews, Silwal and Cllr Guest.

David Gibson, Lynn Webb, Drug Link, Tony Coley and Julie Still

 

 

2.

Minutes of previous meeting 19 October 2015 (previously circulated)

 

 

 

The minutes of the meeting on 19 October 2015 were agreed and signed by the Chairman.

 

 

3.

Performance Update

 

 

 

Partnership (including Funding Update)

 

D Moore gave a brief update along with a presentation and handouts on crime and ASB period 1/04/2015-27/03/2016 and highlighted the following points;

 

 

Violent crimes such as assault and domestic violence had increased this were due to the way in which crime is now recorded.

ASB comes under an incident and not a crime.

Overall we are sitting in the middle with figures which is reasonable.

There has been a huge change in Dacorum over the years and this is only noticeable when you actually compare figures to where we were years ago.

Explanation of where funding monies were being spent and what each of the projects do. Talk to Billy McGill to find out more information on courses for young people.

Comparison of where we sat with crime compared to 9 other districts.

 

As the county positions indicate, Dacorum sits roughly in the middle in terms of performance.

The aim of the CSP is clearly to improve our performance in our key priority areas; this year has illustrated how annual performance in a category (e.g. burglary) can be affected by the Borough being targeted by a criminal network – this has resulted in Dacorum moving from 4th in the county last year in performance in Burglary to 6th position.

However, Dacorum remains a very safe place to live and work.

 

Questions and Answers

 

Cllr Howard asked what pump track was.

D Moore confirmed it was a track for kids to take their bicycles to do stunts.

 

S Matthews referred to Silver street, old people are not on the internet how do they calibrate and do agencies communicate with elderly people.

D Moore confirmed that there is calibration and the agencies are linked and the communication is good.

S Mathews asked if they had identified vulnerable individuals.

D Moore said he can’t identify that but if you speak to S Bunce to see if you can improve things.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.