Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

This section explains the role of the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, which works to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour locally.

The Borough Council works with its partners to keep the area as one of the safest places to live in the country .

The Council and its partners have formed a powerful alliance known as the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership aimed at clamping down on crime and anti-social behaviour in the Borough.

Every three years the partnership produces a strategy document known as the Community Safety Strategy which sets out ways in which it plans to combat crime and disorder in the coming months and years.

The Partners

The leading partner organisations which make up the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership are

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Surrey County Council
Surrey Police
Raven Housing Trust
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service
East Elmbridge and Mid Surrey Primary Care Trust
East Surrey Primary Care Trust
Surrey Police Authority

Pledges

The Community Safety Strategy 2005-08 pledges that the partners will work to:

prevent people becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour
catch and convict offenders, especially those whose crimes have the highest impact on the community
rehabilitate and resettle offenders and drug abusers to reduce possible re-offending

Achievements

The current strategy builds on the successes from the 2002-05 strategy. Annex B of the new strategy gives full details, which include:

employing Borough Council and Raven Housing Trust wardens
expanding the Borough CCTV network
Issuing 8 anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) against individuals with unacceptable behaviour, and setting up a dispersal area in the north of the Borough to prevent intimidating groups of people gathering.

Tough Targets

The strategy sets tough targets to remove graffiti and abandoned vehicles, to reduce anti-social behaviour and to reduce total crime by 16% by 2008. The strategy was written following feedback from the public from a Fear of Crime Survey (Annex C of the strategy) and consultation from a Crime and Disorder Audit (Annex D of the strategy) and Drugs Audit (Annex E of the strategy).

Download the Community Safety Strategy 2005-08 (pdf) (651.4kB)

Progress

To see the latest progress on tackling crime and anti-social behaviour click on the link below to download a recent article from the Council's Borough News.