Strategic Assessment Summary
Aim >>
Contextual landscape
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Key strategic organisational
challenges for the 2008/09 >>
Priority locations within Havant
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Countywide issues >>
Home Office
Partnership Support Team recommendations >>
Introduction
As a result of the Crime and Disorder Act
review (2007) each Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
(
CDRP
) is required
to produce a yearly Strategic Assessment, which will be reviewed
every six months. The assessment will be used to identify issues
affecting public safety in the Borough and will
ultimately act as the basis for decision making and partnership
co-ordination for the next year.
The Act also provides that Crime and Disorder
Reduction Partnerships (
CDRP
’s) shall
have a strategy group. The role of the strategy group is to prepare
the Strategic Assessment and a partnership plan. The Strategic
Assessment is an analysis of the levels and patterns of crime and
disorder and substance misuse in the area and sets the priorities
the
CDRP
should adopt
to address those matters. The partnership plan will set out a
strategy for meeting those priorities and how that strategy should
be implemented by the
CDRP
’s. This
Strategic Assessment will form the basis for the Havant Crime and
Disorder Partnership (
CDRP
) Plan
2008/11.
There is also a requirement that a County wide
strategic group produce a community safety agreement for the county
based on the strategic assessments of each area in that County. In
two-tier areas funding for partnerships is to be accessed through
Local Area Agreements which are negotiated at a County level by
Local Strategic Partnerships. This assessment is also intended to
influence those funding negotiations.
Aim - To inform the effective
deployment of Partnership resources against local Community Safety
priorities
The aim of this strategic assessment is to
provide Havant Borough Council (
HBC
) with an assessment of current,
emerging and long-term issues affecting the Borough. These will be
considered in conjunction with Government objectives. It will
attempt to predict future risks and levels of crime in order to
provide leverage for the Borough to achieve the outcomes identified
within the Local Area Agreement (
LAA
).
This assessment will enable the Local
Strategic Partnership through the Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnership (
CDRP
), to develop
control strategies, policies and determine resource allocation
through the 2008 -2011 community safety plan.
The assessment has been informed by extensive
community and partner engagement and the analysis of a wide range
of local and county wide data sets including:
- Public perception surveys
- Demand on services as identified through single non emergency
number (101) calls
- Recorded crime
- Havant Fire and Rescue Service
- Hampshire Primary Care Trust
- National Office of Statistics
In preparing this assessment Havant
CDRP
secured the assistance of the Home Office Partnership Support Team
to review current performance against the Hallmarks of Effective
Partnership working.
The Hallmarks identified
are:
- empowered and effective leadership
- visible and constructive accountability
- community engagement
- effective and responsive delivery structures
- intelligence led business processes
- appropriate skills and knowledge
The findings and recommendations of the
Partnership Support Team are included throughout this document.
Contextual landscape
Havant Borough is located on the South coast
of Hampshire between the City of Portsmouth on the one side and the
countryside of West Sussex on the other. Covering 55 square
Kilometres in total Havant has a population of some 115,000
people.
The Borough is made up of a wide conurbation
of towns and neighbourhoods including Havant, Waterlooville,
Cowplain, Purbrook, Leigh Park, Bedhampton, Emsworth and Hayling
Island. Havant has a split personality all of its own in that it
features some of the most affluent areas in the County intermingled
with some of the most deprived.
- Havant is one of four district Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnerships within the Hampshire Police Central Operational
Command Unit. (
OCU
)
- Havant is the highest contributor to overall crime across the
OCU
.
- Havant is the third highest area for non accidental fires in
the county.
- There are severe pockets of deprivation in the borough and an
unhelpful and often unfair representation of the Leigh Park
estate.
- Portsmouth City Council is the landlord for over 5,000 houses
in Havant and still owns large amounts of land across the
borough.
- Havant has some of the same social/economic issues as
Portsmouth but does not attract the level of funding to support
tackling these issues.
This assessment has identified strategic
organisational challenges and key community priorities to be
addressed to ensure the effective delivery of partnership services.
It has also identified a number of geographical areas of demand on
services and recommends that these challenges and priorities should
form the basis of our Community Safety Plan for the next 12
months.
The assessment has also identified a number of
issues that fall within the broader Hampshire County Council
Community Safety remit and it is recommended that these are
progressed through the Local Area Agreement negotiations.
Each emerging theme will be addressed in turn
in the main body of this
report.
Recommended local priorities
identified for consideration for the Havant District community
safety plan 2008/2011
- Anti Social Behaviour
- Criminal Damage including arson
- Violent Crime (With particular reference to assaults, domestic
violence and hate crime)
There are also five geographical areas
identified that represent a high level of demand on Partnership
resources and they in turn will also be featured in this
report.
Priority
locations within Havant District identified by the
assessment
|
Leigh Park
|
Barncroft, Battins, Bondfield and Warren Park
Wards
|
|
Stakes Ward
|
|
|
Wecock
|
Hart Plain Ward
|
|
Havant Town
Centre
|
St Faiths Ward
|
|
Hayling
Island
|
Beachlands (An upcoming area of concern which
has seen an increase in ASB during the past year)
|
Countywide issues
There are a number of issues that impact on
services that are delivered on a County wide basis which it is
recommended should form the basis of the Havant District Council’s
Local Area Agreement bid namely:
- Partnership working - enabling delivery: strengthening capacity
and capability.
- Reduce the harm caused by alcohol and drugs.
- Reducing re-offending (prolific and priority offenders)
- Reducing the numbers of young people as victims and
offenders.
-
CCTV
capacity.
Having identified the priority areas the
next stage is to conduct further analysis into the issues raised in
order to develop an improvement plan in the form of the 2008/09
Community Safety Plan. In addition, to ensure the effective
delivery of this plan, this assessment recommends that Havant
Borough Council continues to work with the Home Office Partnership
Support Team:
Home Office Partnership Support Team
recommendations
- To strengthen and broaden the strategic and executive
leadership of the partnership
- To position intelligence led business processes into the
operational structures of the partnership processes and decision
making
- To rebalance the partnership structures to improve the
responsiveness of the Partnership to overall programme management,
performance management, Safer Neighbourhoods, interface with
Partnership stakeholders and long term sustainability of
priorities.
- To prepare for the overview and scrutiny regulations under the
Police and Justice Act
The following members of Havant Borough
Council’s Community Safety Team had direct input into the
preparation and writing of this strategic assessment:
|
Claire Hughes
|
Chair of the Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnership
|
|
Tim Pointer
|
Community Safety Team Leader
|
|
Ryan Gulliver
|
Community Safety Intelligence Researcher and
Analyst – Havant Borough Council & Winchester City Council
|
|
Samantha Charlton
|
Anti Social Behaviour Coordinator
|
|
Francine
Huin-Wah
|
Support Officer
|
The team have also received invaluable
assistance from
- Kim
Bentley
HBC
research and information officer
- Simon
Devonshire
HBC
Business transformation officer