SAFE FOR NOTTINGHAM THE NOTTINGHAM CITY CRIME, DRUGS AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR STRATEGY 2005-2008 CONTENTS PAGE 1. Preface: Making Nottingham a Safer Place to Live and Work 3 2. Strategy Content and Context 4 3. Achievements 2002-05 8 4. The Nottingham Crime, Drugs and ASB Audit: Key Findings and Consultation 9 5. From Audit to Strategy: Our Vision for the City 12 6. Reducing Overall Crime in Nottingham 13 7. Reducing the Harm Caused By Drugs and Alcohol 21 8. Reducing the Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour 25 9. Cross Cutting Themes 27 • Respect for Nottingham 27 • Better Supporting At-Risk Young People and Reducing Recidivism 29 • Strengthening Support for Witnesses and Victims 30 10. Delivering the Strategy 32 • Tackling the Long Term Causes of Crime • Improving our Neighbourhood Focus • Strengthening Engagement with Nottingham’s Diverse Communities • Targeting Prolific and other Priority Offenders • Every Child Matters • Adopting Crime Reduction as a Mainstream Activity • Strengthening our Partnerships and Performance Management Systems • Improving Communication to Reduce the Fear of Crime • Who’s Involved • Community Safety Working Groups • Our Resources • Glossary • Action Plans 2 1. PREFACE: MAKING NOTTINGHAM A youth offending workers and drug treatment workers are clearly SAFER PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK integral to this strategy. Equally important are the ‘eyes and ears’ of people such as housing officers, voluntary workers, primary care Nottingham is a vibrant and ambitious City. Local agencies have workers, refuse collectors, meals on wheels staff and shop workers voiced their desire to continue to attract inward investment and plus the individual members of all Nottingham’s diverse communities. tourism to the City, to strengthen and regenerate neighbourhoods and to be at the forefront of new technology and sustainable Secondly, we have to understand and act on the concerns of the development. The East Midlands as a whole has an ambition to be in residents and businesses of Nottingham. The great majority of the top 20 European areas by 2010. people are fed up with the behaviour of a minority damaging their neighbourhoods and the reputation of the City as a whole. It was this We also want Nottingham to be one of the safest cities in Europe. that inspired our Respect for Nottingham strategy that has already Whilst significant progress has been made over the last three years improved the way people view their neighbourhoods. The kind of in driving down unemployment and driving up educational focused action that informed Respect also informs this strategy, attainment, levels of crime, drug misuse and anti-social behaviour which offers a blueprint for addressing the issues that concern remain unacceptably high. This is why the overall aim of this strategy people living and working in Nottingham. is to deliver sustainable reductions in crime, anti-social behaviour and the drug use that drives much of it over the next three years. We The strategy builds on our experience in the City and emphasises a have a better picture than ever about the nature of the problem as a collaborative and inclusive approach that understands the need for a result of the 2002-04 Audit and we have combined these findings balanced strategy covering education, prevention, enforcement and with extensive consultation to set the priorities contained within this treatment. It also provides a means for us to improve our document. performance locally and for the community to hold us to account. As you read through the document, please think about what you can do To deliver the gains outlined we will have to build on two factors. to make the City a safer place. We need everyone to work together First, the tremendous commitment from all the agencies in the City to over the next three years so we are able to the make Nottingham the working in partnership and ensuring community safety goals are City its residents deserve. delivered by all staff regardless of role. Police and probation officers, 2. STRATEGY CONTENT AND CONTEXT transformed over recent years, with a combination of economic development and regeneration efforts encouraging its repopulation 2.1 Local Context and its burgeoning reputation as a centre for shopping and entertainment. It is a cosmopolitan city benefiting from a young and This strategy outlines the priorities of the Nottingham City Crime and diverse population. The City is made up of diverse communities and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) and the Nottingham City areas that contribute to the range of attractions we can offer Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT). These strategic residents and visitors alike. partnerships, representing the range of public, community and voluntary sector partners listed in Section 10 are respectively The City also faces a number of social problems, with 60% of wards th charged with addressing crime and drugs and they have come in the 10% most deprived nationally and the city ranked as the 7 together to develop this shared strategy as a result of the close link most deprived local authority. Central Government has identified between drugs and crime, especially acquisitive crime such as shop Nottingham as a City with a significant drugs and crime problem, and theft and burglary. Over the next three years they will also be rightly expects local stakeholders to significantly improve delivery of developing shared functions and looking to co-locate to maximise the national crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour strategies at a delivery of the services outlined. local level. This is why we have developed a focused three-year strategy containing a series of stretching targets intended to bring The CDRP is also one of the thematic partnerships of the One City crime down to the average in our ‘family’ of comparable Cities. Partnership Nottingham, the Local Strategic Partnership. OCPN will drive forward the Nottingham Community Strategy over the next The CDRP and DAAT are committed to working in partnership with three years, and this also places drug related crime, anti-social other agencies, and the targets and priorities contained in this behaviour and crime reduction at the heart of achieving the shared document have been closely synchronised with those outlined in the vision for Nottingham developed by local partners. following aligned local strategies: Nottingham has a population of almost 280,000 people and is a City that is witnessing significant economic development as it moves further from its manufacturing base. The City Centre has been 4 • The developing Nottingham Community Strategy and the 2.2 The National Context: Tackling Crime, Improving Neighbourhood Renewal and Sustainable Communities Health, Employability and Educational Attainment agenda Nottingham is expected to deliver against a series of challenging • Greater Nottingham Partnership strategies national crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour related targets, and • The City Primary Care Trust Local Delivery Plan and Prison the Home Office has introduced specific policies to drive the Health Strategy implementation of this agenda nationally. These are: • The Nottingham City Council Strategic Plan and Community Cohesion strategy • The White Paper Building Communities, Beating Crime • The Children and Young People’s Strategic Planning which promotes strong partnerships and instigates the Partnership and the developing Youth Justice Plan 2005-08, review of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act the Service Plan for the City Youth Service, the Teenage • The National Policing Plan outlines the framework within Pregnancy Strategy which local policing is to be delivered to the public • The City Housing Strategy, the Supporting People Strategy • The new Safer and Stronger Communities Fund (SSCF) is and the Homelessness Strategy designed to increase local influence over community safety • The Policing Plan for Nottinghamshire and the City Division and neighbourhood renewal interventions and pools a Policing Plan series of existing budgets in 2005/06 • Nottingham Fire and Rescue Service Community Safety • Local Area Agreements from 2006/07 will broaden the Strategy scope of the SSCF and provide a ‘virtual pooling’ of a • Existing community safety related strategies including the number of budgets including community safety plus some Respect for Nottingham Strategy, Supporting Communities children’s and health funding Strategy and Priority and Prolific Offender Strategy • Tackling Drugs, Changing Lives: Keeping Communities • The Night-Time Economy and Licensing Strategies Safe From Drugs outlines the review of the national drug • The Integrated Student Strategy strategy and progress to date in implementing the Models of Care national service framework and DANOS (drug and alcohol national occupational standards) in treatment services 5 The Home Office has also outlined new Public Service Agreements The Department of Health 2004 Public Service Agreement has four for the period covering 2005-2008. These are: primary objectives. These are: • PSA 1: To reduce crime by 15% and more in high crime • To improve the health of the population by increasing life areas expectancy and reducing health inequalities • PSA 2: To re-assure the public, reduce fear of crime and • To improve the health of people with long term conditions anti-social behaviour and build confidence in the criminal • To improve access to services justice system • To improve the patient and user experience • PSA 3: To bring 1.25 million offences to justice in 2007/8 • PSA 4: To reduce the harm caused by illegal drugs, If we are able to widen access to drug treatment by making services including substantially increasing the number of offenders more attractive to women and people from black and minority ethnic entering treatment through the criminal justice system communities and can begin to reduce problem drug use we will • PSA 6: To increase voluntary and community engagement improve people’s health and life expectancy. Likewise, if we can reduce fear of crime and challenge repeat victimisation we will We have set challenging targets in response to this agenda. These improve many people’s mental health.