If you are involved with a Community Partnership you may already be familiar with the types of community safety issues which are being raised by other people living in your area.

Although each Community Partnership should be in touch with their local Police Community Support Officer, if you have any suggestions as to how Safer Communities Torbay could support Community Partnerships further please let us know by email to scat@torbay.gov.uk or write to us at Safer Communities Torbay, Paignton Police Station, PO Box 1, Paignton, Devon, TQ3 2YF.

Crime and action in your area

Find out about crime in your area by visiting the Police.UK website.

Find out what Devon and Cornwall Police are doing in your area- Visit the Local Policing pages.

Get involved

There are various ways that your Community Partnership can get involved in tackling crime and improving community safety in your area. You can:

• Tell us about community safety issues in your area by email at scatt@torbay.gov.uk.
• Visit our Neighbourhood pages. to contact local Police in your area.
• Ask a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme to join your Community Partnership.
• Sign up for Community Messaging.

Action in your area

Safer Communities Torbay is responsible for something called Locality Tasking. Locality Tasking is a process that makes sure that action is taken quickly in response to anti-social behaviour, crime and disorder.

Locality Tasking meetings take place every fortnight and the people that attend are officers from a wide range of different agencies. There are two Locality Tasking Groups, one that covers Torquay and one that covers both Paington and Brixham.

At each meeting a tasking document is reviewed and that document contains information about:

• Locations where crime has been concentrated during the previous two weeks.
• Victims that have experienced crime repeatedly.
• Repeat offenders.

Locality Tasking meetings do not focus on issues that can be dealt with by a single agency, instead it focuses on local challenges that need a co-ordinated multi-agency approach.

At each meeting all those attending have to sign up to a Data Sharing Protocol in order to ensure that data is shared appropriately and within the law.

At a meeting officers are given tasks to complete to resolve issues and they have to report what actions they’ve taken and what difference that has made at the next meeting.

Involving the community

When community safety issues are raised that can’t be solved in the short term, the Locality Tasking Groups can set up ‘Task and Finish Groups’.

Task and Finish Groups are made up of officers from agencies and can also include representatives from the community, including Community Partnerships.

Task and Finish Groups adopt a problem solving approach to working and develop action plans to make sure that their work is focused. Each member of the group is then responsible for completing specific actions and when the work has been completed, the group is disbanded.

Get involved

If your Community Partnership would like to be actively involved in helping to solve community safety issues in your area, please register the contact details of someone in your Community Partnership with us. If a Task and Finish Group is set up to tackle an issue in your neighbourhood we may contact that person to help us.

To register your interest please email us at scatt@torbay.gov.uk or write to us at Safer Communities Torbay, Paignton Police Station, PO Box 1, Paignton, Devon, TQ3 2YF.

Anti-Social Behaviour

Torbay Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Team is available to deliver workshops with Community Partnerships on:

• Reporting anti-social behaviour
• Identifying and supporting vulnerable people in your area
• The enforcement powers available to deal with anti-social behaviour

To find out more contact David Parsons, Anti-Social Behaviour Team Manager, on telephone 01803 208025 or email asb@torbay.gov.uk.

Coming soon – find out what anti-social behaviour enforcement action has happened in your area.