Welcome to the Safer Portsmouth Partnership, the key anti-crime partnership for Portsmouth. We are actively reducing crime and substance misuse in Portsmouth making the city a safe place to live, work and visit.

Most people enjoy a drink, but over 40,000 people in Portsmouth are considered problem or high risk drinkers. Drinking excessively not only affects their health, but their actions too. Alcohol misuse is our No.1 priority because it’s estimated to be the driver of most crime in the city. In fact, in 50% of crimes the victim believed the offender was under the influence of alcohol.

Portsmouth’s young people are the future of the city and it is reassuring to know that 97% of them did not commit an offence last year. Our work over the last 6 years has seen a reduction in youth crime of over 24% but there is more to do.

Drug misuse can have wide reaching effects, not just on the drug user, but on their family and the community. There is a small group of problem drug users in Portsmouth – around 1300 – half of which are already in effective drug treatment. There are strong links with theft and re-offending (30% of re-offenders required drug treatment last year).

It's estimated that 10% of offenders are responsible for half of all crimes. Re-offending has strong links to alcohol and drug misuse as well as financial, employment, housing and family problems. We work with those most at risk of re-offending to break the pattern and target the key causes that trigger re-offending behaviour.

Violence is devastating - physically, emotionally and financially. In Portsmouth, hidden violence such as domestic abuse and hate crimes account for a quarter of all violent crimes. About 50% of all violent crime is alcohol fuelled and children are one of the most at risk groups. Our partners are working hard to reduce violence across the city and as a result the number of violent crimes against the person reduced last year.

Everyone wants to live in a pleasant, safe area where people get along. But this isn't always possible and often anti-social behaviour can cause misery for residents. We have a dedicated ASB unit that focuses on the causes of anti-social behaviour as well as using legal powers to deal with the most difficult cases. In Portsmouth, ASB is reducing but it remains a problem in some areas of the city.

Theft continues to be a problem in Portsmouth with shop theft accounting for almost 15% of all crime in the city. Theft is linked closely with all our top 4 priorities: alcohol misuse; drug misuse; young people and adult re-offending.

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Hampshire Probation supervises more than 6,000 offenders each year.

Crime in Portsmouth has dropped by 20% in the last five years (2005-2010)

Portsmouth has the highest number of hospital admissions due to alcohol illness and injury in the south east

The average domestic abuse survivor will only report the crime after 35 incidents.

Over 700 alcohol test purchases were carred out in 2009/10

Over 3,300 pupils saw the Be Safe, Stay Safe roadshow in 2010

The community wardens responded to 3,776 calls in 2009/10

6,719 crimes were solved in 2009/10

98 families were supported by the Preventing Youth Offending Project in 2009/10. That's more than double than the previous year

742 people received effective drug treatment in 2009/10 - that's up 13%

There were 1,049 fewer ASB incidents in 2009/10 compared to the previous year

Youth crime has dropped 25% in five years (2005-2010)

Shoplifting is the most common reason a young person gets a criminal record in Portsmouth

Anxiety,depression and self-harm are often linked to alcohol

Crime fell by 9% in Portsmouth in 2009-2010

Domestic burglary fell by 10% in 2009-2010

Theft from a vehicle fell by 12% in 2009-2010

Theft of vehicles fell by 32% in 2009-2010

Criminal damage fell by 16% in 2009-2010

Violence against the person fell by 1% in 2009-2010

Arson fell by 10% in 2009-2010

The number of first time offenders under 18yrs of age dropped by 64% in 2009-2010

In 2009-2010, we helped 829 people who had suffrered domestic abuse

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