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

Safer Portsmouth Partnership Structure Chart

Commissioning Framework for Portsmouth

Making Portsmouth Safer

Welcome to the Safer Portsmouth Partnership, the key anti-crime and substance misuse partnership for Portsmouth.

We are actively reducing crime and substance misuse in Portsmouth making the city a safe place to live, work and visit.

Our People

The Safer Portsmouth Partnership brings together local organisations such as the council, police, NHS, fire service, probation service, university, voluntary and community groups to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour, substance misuse and re-offending in Portsmouth.

Our Principles

The SPP will forge constructive partnerships, consult with residents and listen to their concerns.
We will make sure services provide a balance between prevention, support and enforcement and we'll gather information and do research so that we can tell if what we are doing is working.
We won't make any assumptions about the causes of crime and disorder in our city and we'll make sure that services are accessible and responsive to the wide range of needs in the city.
We will not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexuality, faith, disability, age, culture or ethnic background.
We will compare ourselves against other similar areas so we can demonstrate improvement and we will ensure value for money in everything we do by joining up activity across agencies wherever possible to provide efficient, effective and equitable services and interventions.

The Chair of the SPP is the Cabinet Member for Community Safety, Portsmouth City Council, Cllr Lynne Stagg.

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 - PCC/PCT)
Champion for Violent and Volume Crime

Norman Mellors (Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary)
Champion for Reducing Reoffending

Sarah Beattie (Offender Management Director, Hampshire Probation Service)

History of Partnership Working

In 1995 the government's drugs strategy 'Tackling Drugs Together' formed multi-agency Drug Action Teams (DATs) The DATs reponsibilities were increased following the 1997 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 set up a local crime and disorder reduction partnership (CDRP) and work together to produce a crime reduction strategy every three years.

Driving this strategy back then was the multi-agency Crime and Disorder Strategic Partnership. The Police Reform Act 2002 made local Primary Care Trusts statutory partners within the CDRP. The Act also required closer working between CDRPs and Drug Action Teams which led to the merger of the two groups in 2004 to create the Safer Portsmouth Partnership (SPP). The Probation Trust joined the list of statutory partners in April 2009.

The Safer Portsmouth Partnership is accountable to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) for reducing crime, disorder and substance misuse.

For more information on the partnership members please click on the member logos below.

Who's involved