Adult and Community Services Department

Community Safety and Preventative Services

The Community Safety and Preventive Services Department coordinates our and its partners' response to crime and disorder reduction. The Service brings together the work of the Community Safety Team (including Parks Police and CCTV), the Drug and Alcohol Action Team and the Youth Offending Service.

The Service works to ensure a cohesive and combined approach towards increasing the safety and the quality of life of local residents.

The Executive Portfolio Lead has set out her clear intent to:

Reduce crime and antisocial behaviour
Reduce the fear of crime
Increase user satisfaction of our parks and open spaces
Be positive about our young people

The Service is based within the council, but works towards objectives laid out by the portfolio holder and also the partnership that it supports. This partnership is made up of local authority, Primary Care Trust, Probation, Police and Fire Services, Youth Justice Board, Government Office for London, National Treatment Agency and voluntary and community services.

Part of the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership's role is to manage these agencies' potentially conflicting priorities, required outcomes and disparate budgets accordingly.

The Partnerships principal aims are to reduce and prevent crime, to support young people and their families in making choices and to reduce the harm caused by drugs and alcohol to adults and young people.

We have a vision to build communities and transform lives and are committed to making Barking and Dagenham a safer place for people to live, work and to learn through:

Making communities stronger and more effective
Reducing crime and antisocial behaviour
Creating safer environments
Protecting the public and building confidence
Improving people's lives

By working in partnership we will contribute to this vision and ensure that we address crime and disorder issues from a holistic standpoint as well as addressing the fear of crime.

Departmental organisation

Community Safety|

Community Safety includes the Community Safety Team, Parks Police, CCTV and Antisocial Behaviour Investigators.

Youth Offending Team|

The role of the team is to improve the lives of young people at risk of offending and social exclusion and those within the Criminal Justice System. Its aim is to reduce the high levels of young people in custody and to enable equal access to services for all.

Drug Action Team|

The Drug and Alcohol Action Team is a multi agency partnership responsible for delivering the governments National Drugs Strategy. Its aim is to ensure that residents of the borough who are drug users or who are family/mentors of drug users have access to information at every level. They also want to make sure that our young people are educated and made aware of the issues and problems around drugs.

Contact

Glynis Rogers

Head of Community Safety and Preventative Services

Roycraft House

15 Linton Road

Barking

IG11 8HE

Tel: 020 8227 2827

Fax: 020 8227 5699

Email: glynis.rogers@lbbd.gov.uk|