1 / 29

30 min presentation 30 min for questions

Join us for a presentation on tackling environmental nuisance and crime together through a new enforcement tool to combat littering, dog fouling, and fly tipping. Sign up for a partnership pilot to address these issues. Let's work together to reduce environmental problems in Cornwall. Learn about the Incident Report Card, a safe and effective tool for reporting incidents without confrontation. Help restore civic pride and reduce littering in our communities. Together, we can make a positive impact.

dunham
Download Presentation

30 min presentation 30 min for questions

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Welcome Tackling environmental nuisance & crime together Community Enforcement Partnership Pilot James Peck, Kevin Brader, Jason Drew Neighbourhoods & Public Protection Service

  2. Itinerary • 30 min presentation • 30 min for questions

  3. Today’s Objectives • Advise you of Cornwall’s environmental problems • Advise you of a new, innovative, safe, non-contact enforcement tool developed to combat littering, dog fouling and fly tipping blight in our communities • Sign you up to a new partnership pilot to tackle these problems • If you are town/parish councillor/clerk we can support you to train other councillor colleagues/council staff

  4. Cornwall is a beautiful Duchy but it has some problems…

  5. Over 4,000 fly tips annually

  6. Over 600 dog fouling reports annually

  7. Only 73 reports of littering last year!

  8. What Matters • ‘58% of residents felt environmental nuisance* was a very or fairly big • problem in their local area’. • Cornwall Council Resident Survey 2017 • *Environmental nuisance: fly tipping, dog fouling, littering

  9. What Matters • Over 80% of people feel angry and frustrated by the amount of litter lying all over the country (Litter strategy for England) • RSPCA received over 5,000 phone calls about litter-related incidents affecting animals (Litter strategy for England)

  10. Education, information, campaign activity • Cornwall Council and town/parish council activities aimed at: • Changing behaviour • Raising general awareness • Providing information • Litterless Cornwall

  11. More could be done by working together • Address residents concerns • Restore civic pride (making it socially unacceptable to litter etc.) • Change offender behaviour (social norm) • Bring about a long term reduction in littering, fly tipping and community dog fouling issues

  12. Environmental Nuisance/ Crime FPN Fees • Littering: £150 • Dog Fouling: £100 • Fly tipping: £400

  13. Initial Town/Parish Council Support Building enforcement capacity & capability • Trained/authorised 81 Town/Parish Council personnel with fixed penalty notice powers (littering, dog fouling, dogs on beaches) • Delivered Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS) training/authorisation • ‘name & address powers’ (Police)

  14. Enforcement reality • Still have year-on-year high numbers of enviro-nuisance/crime • Low number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN’s) being issued (mainly dogs on beaches) • Trained town/parish council staff report issues in serving FPNs (work competes ‘day job’ demands, issues with confrontation, personal safety) • Devolving enforcement powers has restricted use: law dictates that Councillors cannot be authorised to issue FPN’s

  15. A new solution to building enforcement capacity - Incident Report Card? • A new, no contact (non-confrontational) enforcement tool: co-designed with Launceston & Bodmin Town Councils • For use in tackling littering, dog fouling & fly tipping, enables the service of fixed penalty notice by post (by Cornwall Council) • Great early successes

  16. Incident Report Card: what is it? • An A6-sized card: a non-contact • enforcement reporting tool (keep one • in the car, handbag, pocket) • Recording essential information relating to an environmental incident committed (for dog fouling, littering, fly tipping only) to enable a fixed penalty notice to be served

  17. Case Study: use of the Incident Report Card • Cornwall council staff have completed 6 Incident Report Cards without the need for confrontation (since mid June) • Postal fixed penalty notices have been triggered

  18. Incident Report Card: Safe, Simple & Effective

  19. Incident Report Card: Safe, Simple & Effective

  20. Incident Report Card: Safe, Simple & Effective • If the vehicle registration, offender identity and/or address is provided (& other details) then a postal fixed penalty notice can be served. Vehicle registration of offender Include the identity and/or address of offender if known

  21. Returning Incident Report Cards • Completed Incident Report cards must be returned to Cornwall Council • within 7 days of witnessingan incident

  22. Returning Incident Report Cards - Options • 1) Email scanned copy or images of completed card to publicprotection@cornwall.gov.uk • 2) Tel. 01209 616990 where details of the incident will be taken. • 3) Hand the card (in a sealed envelope marked ‘confidential’) to a Cornwall Council office reception for the attention of: • Neighbourhoods & Public Protection Service • Second Floor, East Wing, Dolcoath Avenue, Camborne, TR14 8SX • 4) Post the card in a sealed envelope to the same address

  23. Incident Report Card usage requirements • Only for non-contact usage • Used only by a trained councillor or member of staff • Cornwall Council to be notified of trained individuals to add to an ‘approved user register’ • Trained Town/Parish Council personnel can deliver cascade training to other Councillors/Council staff

  24. Cornwall Council Support - Process • Our Technical Support team will initially process your Incident Report Card • Allocated to our Enforcement Team • If registered vehicle ownership details are needed, our Enforcement Team will request these from the DVLA (information requests can take up to 10 days) • A postal fixed penalty notice will be served unless further evidence or an investigation is needed

  25. Keeping you in the loop • Town and Parish Council clerks will be notified of fixed penalty notices served arising from Incident Report Cards (quarterly basis) • Further bespoke refresher training sessions can be provided upon request

  26. Interested? • Your attendance at this training approves you to use the Incident Report Cards • Please fill out the form to receive Incident Report Cards for your council (to be distributed at the end of the session) • Please ensure the Approved User Register is completed for your council and returned to publicprotection@cornwall.gov.uk

  27. Reporting tool for the public • Online ‘Report it’ tool for members of the public • Reporting made simple • https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/report-it/

  28. Other tailored enforcement support • Fixed penalty notice training/authorisation of Town/Parish Council personnel (not Cllrs) for littering, dog fouling, dogs on beaches, which includes community safety accreditation scheme (CSAS) training & authorisation - name/address powers (Police) • Service level agreement for additional enforcement patrols (environmental/civil parking enforcement) • CC acting employer role and support for dedicated town and parish council enforcement staff

  29. Many thanksAny Questions?

More Related