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What is the Safer Surrey Heath Partnership?
Under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, agencies in England and Wales have a statutory duty to form a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) to tackle key community safety issues. The agencies required to take part are the borough and county councils, primary care trust (PCT), fire authority and police authority. CDRPs are required to review the levels and patterns of crime and disorder in the area, and develop and implement strategies to tackle these problems.
In Surrey Heath, the CDRP is known as the Safer Surrey Heath Partnership and is made up of Surrey Heath Borough Council, Surrey County Council, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (a department of Surrey County Council), Surrey Police, Surrey PCT and Surrey Police Authority. All six partners work together to provide reassurance, raise awareness of community safety issues and implement strategies to reduce crime, and fear of crime. The Partnership works closely with safer neighbourhood policing teams, as well as voluntary organisations such as Neighbourhood Watch, to keep the borough safe.
Representatives of the partners, along with supporting officers, meet quarterly to review progress and share information.
Tackling the community's priorities
The government expects local authorities and their partners to help deliver its key priorities to reduce crime and disorder, and misuse of drugs, as expressed in the National Policing Plan. However, these national priorities need to be viewed in both a regional and local context. In this respect, the targets and objectives of the Safer Surrey Heath Partnership are very much community-driven.
A Home Office CDRP Reform Programme is currently underway to make CDRPs more effective in tackling crime and disorder. This includes a repeal of each CDRP's duty to undertake three-yearly audits and publish three-yearly strategies.
All CDRPs are now required to undertake an Annual Strategic Assessment and publish a Partnership Plan, with a six-monthly review, to cover the impact of drug and alcohol misuse as well as crime and anti-social behaviour. The borough's first Partnership Plan was published on 1 April 2008.