Priority Aims
Community Safety
Aim
Make Hartlepool a safer place by reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, and tackling drugs and alcohol misuse.
Outcomes and Objectives
Reduced Crime
1. To reduce acquisitive crime (burglary and theft) with particular focus on high crime areas.
2. To reduce violent crime, with particular emphasis on alcohol related incidents associated with the night-time economy.
3. To reduce incidents of victimisation, in particular repeat incidents associated with domestic violence and improve joint working between services.
4. To ensure that community safety is considered in all decision making and service delivery of public bodies.
Reduced harm caused by illegal drugs and alcohol
5. To tackle drugs misuse with treatment programmes which encourage harm minimisation, rigorous enforcement and education and awareness programmes.
6. To develop local services for those who misuse alcohol.
7. To tackle under-age drinking by education and enforcement.
Improved neighbourhood safety and increased public confidence leading to reduced fear of crime and
anti-social behaviour
8. To reduce anti-social behaviour, criminal damage and deliberate fire setting across the town, with particular focus on 'hot spot' areas.
9. To involve local communities in tackling crime and
anti-social behaviour and the causes of crime and
anti-social behaviour.
10. To introduce measures to promote reassurance and improve public confidence in all sections of the community.
Reduced offending and re-offending
11. To prevent and reduce offending and re-offending.
12. To work with young people and their parents/guardians and families to prevent youth offending.