Partners Against Crime
Crime prevention is not something that can be left to any one organisation: it is very much a job for partnerships.
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 placed an obligation on local authorities and the police to work together in the development and implementation of strategies for tackling crime and disorder. Within the Act, Section 17 requires local authorities, police authorities and other agencies to consider crime and disorder reduction and community safety in the exercise of all their duties and activities. The causes of crime and disorder are complex and varied and the Act reflects the view that a partnership approach is critical in achieving a reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour.
Unusually, the Waterlooville police sector covers more than one local authority area. The Safer Neighbourhoods areas of Waterlooville South, Waterlooville Central and Waterlooville North are all within the Borough of Havant, whilst the South of Butser SNT, covering Horndean, Clanfield and Rowlands Castle, falls within the boundary of East Hampshire District Council. In practice, the two local authorities work closely with each other as well as with the sector policing team.
Havant Borough Council:
The Safer Havant Partnership consists of five key organisations, and more than twenty others, that are committed to working together to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the Borough of Havant. Included in this line-up are the Waterlooville & District Neighbourhood Watch Association and the Havant Neighbourhood Watch Association, representatives of which attend the monthly meetings of the partnership’s Community Tasking and Coordinating Group, which receives reports about crime and disorder within the borough and agrees priority tasking for dealing with the problems - by the police and other partner agencies.
For more information about the Safer Havant Partnership, you are urged to visit the Partnership’s own website at www.saferhavant.co.uk. This will explain more about what the partnership is doing and will enable you to keep up to date with its plans and activities, as well as showing how you can get involved in your local community and make your own contribution to the partnership and to the reduction of crime and disorder.
East Hampshire District Council:
East Hampshire District Council has similar partnership responsibilities to those of Havant, and has its own Community Safety Team. To view the Community Safety pages of East Hampshire District Council’s website, please visit http://www.easthants.gov.uk/ehdc/communitysafety.nsf/