Safer Stockton Partnership

Lead: Police Chief Inspector Neighbourhoods (Mick Williams)

Deputy: Council Community Safety Manager (Steven Hume)

Named Contact: Senior Community Safety Officer Claire Sills - Communitysafetyteam@Stockton.gov.uk

This was the top priority for residents to the survey, chosen by more than 3,000 people with only 284 saying that it should not be a priority.  It was the top category for all categories except for under 16s, who placed it as their thrid priority, after violent crime and drug related offending and was also the top priority when responses were broken down by ward, for all wards except Grangefield, who placed this second.  A significant number of the Grangefield reponses came from the two schools in the ward and, as previously observed, under 16s ranked this lower.

Consultation responses told us that within the ASB category the following were the most and least important to respondents:

Our yearly Partnership Strategic Assessment tells us that:

1. Total ASB incidents recorded by the Police reduced by 15.3%. The Multi Agency ASB Team (MAASBT) also saw a reduction of 27%.
2. 70% of service requests to the MAASBT came from activity identified by uniformed presence on the streets, through alcohol confiscations, AS 13s and section 27 notices issued by police, Neighbourhood Enforcement Service (NES) and the ASB Team.
3. 31% of ASB incidents reported to the MAASBT were alcohol related.
4. Anti social behaviour continues to be male, and youth dominated.

What we will do.

We will:

1. Use information from data analysis to direct operational activity.
2. Clarify what residents think anti social behaviour is, whether they have reported it and if so, to whom, and if not, why not. We will use Viewpoint focus groups for this purpose.
3. Use the council survey and Viewpoint to assess satisfaction levels with how ASB is dealt with in Stockton.
4. Maintain a uniform presence on the streets in particular in hot spot areas and at key times.
5. Maximise the use of mediation to resolve disputes. The Multi Agency ASB Team will have officers trained in mediation skills and techniques.
6. Work with alcohol support services to improve the early identification of those misusing alcohol and causing ASB.
7. Work with the Youth Offending Service to reduce the number of young people who enter the Criminal Justice System.
8. THL will launch an ASB Standard for the Borough which will be signed up to by all housing providers and the MAASBT.  A yearly performance report will be brought to SSP to review performance against the standard.