Portsmouth’s Community Safety Plan
In April 2005 the Safer Portsmouth Partnership published its first joint crime reduction and drugs strategy. You can download the current Partnership Plan (2008-2011) here.
Membership of the Safer Portsmouth Partnership
The Safer Portsmouth Partnership (SPP) includes a wide range of partners working together to improve life in the city. The member agencies include:
Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership
Cranstoun Drug Services (voluntary sector representative)
Hampshire Constabulary
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Hampshire Fire Authority
Hampshire Police Authority
Hampshire Probation Service
Joint Commissioning Group (Drug Treatment)
Local Strategic Partnership
Motiv8 (voluntary sector representative)
Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust
University of Portsmouth
Wessex Youth Offending Team
The Chair of the SPP is the chief executive of Portsmouth City Council, David Williams.
Five members of the partnership have taken on the responsibility as ‘theme champions’, leading on that agenda within the partnership. These theme champions are:
- Champion for Young People
Charlie Adie (Chief Executive of Motiv8)
- Champion for Anti-social Behaviour
Kevin Evenett (Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service)
- Champion for Drugs and Alcohol
Paul Edmondson-Jones (Director of Public Health, Portsmouth City PCT)
- Champion for Violent and Volume Crime
David Peacock (Chief Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary)
- Champion for Communities and Communications
Councillor Paula Riches (Police Authority Representative, PCC)
For the Safer Portsmouth Partnership structure chart click here
For the partnership's Strategic Assessment document click here
Safer Portsmouth Partnership Minutes
Jan 2008 SPP Special Meeting Minutes
How are we doing?
History of Partnership Working
In 1995 the government’s drugs strategy ‘Tackling Drugs Together’ formed multi-agency Drug Action Teams (DATs). The DATs responsibilities were increased following the 1998 drugs strategy ‘Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain’ making it responsible for implementing the national strategy at a local level.
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 requires local authorities and police to produce a crime reduction strategy every three years.
Driving this strategy back then was the multi-agency Crime and Disorder Strategic Partnership (CDSP). The Police Reform Act 2002 made local Primary Care Trusts statutory partners within the CDSP.
The act also required closer working between the CDSP and drug action teams (DATs), which led the to merger of them in 2004 to create Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs).
The partnership in Portsmouth decided to call itself something more palatable to people, changing CDRP to Safer Portsmouth Partnership.
The Safer Portsmouth Partnership is accountable to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) for reducing crime, disorder and substance misuse. |
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