Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs)
Statutory Duties
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and subsequent legislation sets out the duties for Community Safety Partnerships, including:
- To have a District level Community Safety Partnership (CSP) made up of ‘Responsible Authorities’ for the area, which are the District Council, County Council, Police, Fire, Probation, and the Integrated Care Board,
- To undertake a crime audit, the ‘Strategic Assessment’.
- To formulate and implement strategies to tackle crime and disorder, the misuse of drugs, reduce reoffending and prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.
- To share information with ‘Relevant Authorities’ for the purposes of preventing and reducing crime and disorder.
- To conduct Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews
- A Section 17 duty for Responsible Authorities to ‘Without prejudice to any other obligation imposed upon it, it shall be the duty of each authority … to exercise its various functions with due regard to the likely effect of the exercise of those functions on, and the need to do all that it reasonably can to prevent, crime and disorder in its area (including anti-social and other behaviour adversely affecting the local environment) and the misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances in its area.’
In two-tier areas there are also requirements for a county community safety strategy group and countywide Community Safety Agreement.
There is also a duty for the CSP and the Police & Crime Commissioner to take each other’s priorities into account and act in co-operation with each other.
In Warwickshire there are 4 CSPs:
The Safer Warwickshire Partnership Board (PDF, 452 KB) fulfils the requirements of the county strategy group and aims to create safer communities through the reduction of crime and the promotion of safety.
Partner agencies including Warwickshire County Council, the county’s borough and district councils, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service, Warwickshire Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Warwickshire, Probation Service, Health services, and charities work together with residents, community groups and businesses to keep Warwickshire safe.
