Community Safety Priorities
The priorities that have been drawn from the County Strategic Assessment have enabled us to identify key crime, disorder, substance misuse and anti-social behaviour issues across the county that may benefit most from a coordinated response across all Community Safety Partnerships and cooperative bodies. The assessment has relied upon the exchange of information between public authorities, information gathered by consulting our communities, from national surveys, national policy and from other acknowledged national sources.
Guidance on developing the Strategic Assessment had been provided by the Home Office. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this information.
County Strategic Assessment (49 pages)
The County Strategic Assessment was supported by seven ‘local’ strategic assessments for each district/borough area which have been used to develop local partnership plans that demonstrate how issues relevant to particular localities will be tackled.
The priorities identified by our County Strategic Assessment and to which the Community Safety Agreement will provide a particular focus are:
- Improve public reassurance in relation to crime and anti-social behaviour, including a focus on reducing criminal damage;
- Reduce serious violent crime across County Durham and in priority locations e.g. where there are links with violence and the night time economy;
- Tackle domestic abuse with specific emphasis on achieving a coordinated approach;
- Ensure there is a coordinated approach to tackling re-offending, with particular focus on prolific and other priority offenders (PPOs) and drugs misuseand;
- Reduce the harm to individuals and communities caused by alcohol misuse.
- Develop and implement an information improvement plan in order to bridge the significant gaps in data sharing and improve the quality of ‘Intelligence Products’.
