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Sarah Newton Community safety partnership services July 2013. SSP PRIORITIES 2013-14. Who we are. The Safer Southwark Partnership (SSP) is Southwark’s community safety partnership with responsibility to reduce crime, anti social behaviour, fear of crime and substance misuse.
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Sarah NewtonCommunity safety partnership servicesJuly 2013 SSP PRIORITIES 2013-14
Who we are • The Safer Southwark Partnership (SSP) is Southwark’s community safety partnership with responsibility to reduce crime, anti social behaviour, fear of crime and substance misuse. • Our vision is to make Southwark a safer and healthier place to live, work or visit. • The SSP is committed to delivering this vision and working together with statutory, voluntary and community sector services in order to make a difference.
How do we deliver our vision? • Strategic Assessment and Priority Crimes Matrix • reviews performance & identifies priorities • Partnership plan • sets out how we are going to deliver against our priorities • Includes targets to measure our well we are doing
Setting priorities • Priority Crimes Matrix assesses crime types against a number of different factors, such as: • Performance • Volume • Cost • Seriousness • Also includes an assessment of victims, offenders, locations and time
Performance • Over the last five years, there has been a 17% reduction in total recorded crime in Southwark • Approximately 6,650 fewer crimes
Performance • Success in certain crime types: • 39% reduction in most serious violence • 24% reduction in violence with injury • 38% reduction in youth violence • 3% reduction in residential burglary • 29% reduction in motor vehicle crime • 16% reduction in gun crime • 26% reduction in domestic abuse
Performance • Not so good: • Serious youth violence up 4% • Knife crime up 31% • Personal robbery up 20% • Southwark has one of the highest levels in London for youth violence, robbery, knife crime and domestic violence
Cost of crime • Value of goods stolen including insurance costs, the emotional and physical impact to victims, hospital costs, lost working hours and the overall criminal justice costs. • Most costly are those with large estimated emotional and physical impact, such as murder, wounding, robbery and sexual offences. • In 2012/13, the cost of these violent crimes in Southwark estimated at £78m
Perception Resident Survey February 2013 • 95% of residents feel safe walking alone outside in the daytime • 72% felt safe walking alone outside after dark • 20% thought anti social behaviour was a problem: • Teenagers have nothing to do = 42% • Teenagers hanging around = 23% • Dogs causing a noise/nuisance = 24% • Rubbish/litter = 24% • Noisy/nuisance neighbours = 14% • Vandalism/graffiti = 12%
Priority Crimes Matrix • Top eight crime types: • Domestic abuse • Personal robbery • Knife crime • Serious violence • Alcohol related crime • Gun crime • Youth violence • Drug related crime
SSP thematic priorities • Reducing harm, including the harm caused by serious anti social behaviour • Reducing offending, including reoffending • Supporting families and those with multiple disadvantage • Building sustainable community capacity and public confidence