Safer Herefordshire

Introduction

Safer Herefordshire (Formerly Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership) is a statutory, multi-agency partnership set up to tackle community safety and drug issues across the county.  The Partnership aims to work together to make Herefordshire an even safer place to live, work and visit, focusing on education, prevention, enforcement and treatment.

Herefordshire is a very safe place, with some of the lowest crime rates in the country.  However, in any area there will always be some improvements that can be made to increase community safety. Safer Herefordshire focuses on:

• Reducing crime through offender management and other interventions (including domestic abuse)
• Reducing drug and alcohol harm
• Promoting and delivering increased road safety
• Providing community reassurance on anti-social behaviour, disorder and crime
• Multi-agency and community dynamic tasking and co-ordination

The following two subjects also fall into each of these categories:

• Young People (victims and offenders)
• Violent Crime

Current partner organisations are:

• Herefordshire Council
• Herefordshire Housing (representing Registered Social Landlords)
• Herefordshire Primary Care Trust
• Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service
• The Herefordshire Partnership
• West Mercia Police
• West Mercia Police Authority
• West Mercia Probation Trust
• Worcestershire and Herefordshire Youth Offending Service

Partnership Background

The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act placed a statutory duty on local authorities and the Police to act in co-operation with the Probation Service, Health Authorities and other relevant agencies, to work together to develop and implement a strategy for tackling crime and disorder in their area.  This was later amended in the 2002 Police Reform Act to include the Police Authority, Fire Service and the Primary Care Trust.

So the Herefordshire Community Safety Partnership was established, which then merged with the Herefordshire Drug Action Team in 2004 to form the new Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership.

However, in order to move with the changing times, it was decided in early 2009 that we needed to re-brand ourselves, so Safer Herefordshire was born.

Youth Zone

Youth Zone

Are you looking for things to do and places to go....Why don't you visit the new Youth Zone website, you'll find it's bursting with useful information for all young people in Herefordshire. For further information visit: http://www.myherefordshire.com/youthzone/

Resources

Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership Information Leaflet

This leaflet offers information on who we are, what we do, who we work with and how to contact us

Adobe PDF

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Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership Presentation

For more information, please view our short presentation

Adobe PDF

271 kb

Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership Strategic Plan 2008 - 2011

This is our current Partnership Strategic Plan for 2008 - 2011

Adobe PDF

219 kb

Herefordshire Crime, Disorder and Drugs Reduction Strategy 2005 - 2008

Adobe PDF

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Audit of Crime, Disorder & Drugs within Herefordshire (2004)

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