Introduction from the Chair, Brendan Ryan

Welcome to Thanet Community Safety Partnership’s ambitious Partnership Plan for 2009 to 2012. The plan sets out what we have achieved to date, what the current priorities are for the Thanet District and what we are going to do about them.  A lot has been achieved during the past 12 months, with crime falling by 9%. There have been notable successes in particular with tackling violence in Marine Terrace and antisocial behaviour in Newington amongst others.

The Community Safety Unit is achieving results and this has culminated in a justice award nomination and recognition from central government that Thanet is a Neighbourhood and Crime Justice area.

That said, there is a lot of work to do within community safety in Thanet and it is still recognised by both agency staff and residents alike - that it is a big priority to improve on. A Strategic Assessment for the district has been completed and using key data, it shows that the priorities for the partnership to tackle are: Violence in the night-time economy, domestic abuse, antisocial behaviour, criminal damage and community engagement. These priorities have been reiterated at the consultation events organised with key stakeholders and residents.

During the next 12 months the partner agencies will look to work with residents to improve their

quality of life and make them feel safer. The partnership will aim to do this by targeting the priority issues with effective and proven actions and projects that will make a difference in reducing crime, tackling anti-social behaviour and in turn, improve people’s safety.

Brendan Ryan

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