Thanet Community Safety Plan 2012-2013

Welcome to Thanet Community Safety Partnership’s new plan for 2012/13.  This plan sets out our recent achievements and current priorities, outlining how we are going to deliver them effectively. 

Crime this year has reduced by 3.2% with a reduction of 350 crimes. Two areas which have seen the best results this year are burglary dwelling, with the largest reduction (-29.6%), closely followed by theft from motor vehicle (-22.9%). 

The last 12 months have seen many successful multi-agency initiatives tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in the Thanet area. We have seen over 1200 properties visited during cleansweep operations ensuring that households and premises are safe, and those residing in them are law abiding and not at risk to themselves or others.  Operation Cleansweep is seen as a real beacon of partnership work, and is being replicated across the county.

Another of the partnership's successes this year is the extension to its street scene enforcement team.  This has allowed the partnership to better tackle fly-tipping and dumped rubbish, which can often result in deliberate fires. The additional resource in this area has already seen its successes with over 400 notices served on landlords that are not dealing with dumped rubbish on their properties.

Domestic abuse is a priority for agencies in Thanet. The partnership will look to continue to support the Domestic Abuse Forum and will deliver projects that the forum consider a priority. Initiatives such as the one stop shop and domestic abuse directory have proven to help practitioners in reaching more women that suffer from this prevalent crime.

During next year we will continue to work with our residents to improve their quality of life. We aim to ensure that our community feels safe and involved in the work that we carry out, and that we gain feedback where possible to ensure good practice is taken forward and lessons are learnt.

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