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The Crime & Disorder Act 1998 made it a legal responsibility for public bodies to work together to reduce crime. These responsibilities were reinforced and extended by the Police Reform Act 2002, which required a wide range of organisations to co-operate with the responsible authorities to reduce crime.
Swindon Community Safety Partnership’s approach is to work together and merge resources to address areas of concern identified by residents:
By implementing programmes to address these issues, the Partnership works towards reducing these offences and improving community safety.
The British Crime Survey indicates Swindon has one of the lowest rates of recorded crime in England. Despite this, fear of crime and perceptions of safety remain disproportionately high in Swindon.
The Community Safety Partnership works to ensure levels of crime remain low and reductions in this kind of offending behaviour and other types of crime are achieved through targeted initiatives that focus on:
The Partnership works to reduce the number of reported crimes in the “comparator crime” group.
Comparator crimes are:
This set covers about 60 per cent of all recorded crimes.
The aim is to develop a co-ordinated approach to crime reduction with our partners. The Partnership looks at different programmes and projects to engage with people at risk, those already involved in offending and persistent offenders. It also looks at a range of other interventions in the community to address local concerns.
The Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust is a registered charity and is entirely responsible for raising all the funds needed to operate the Bobby project.
The Bobby Van project consists of three vans that are, in effect, mobile workshops. The Bobby operators are skilled carpenters/lock-fitters and are trained Crime Reduction Officers. They have also been trained by Wiltshire Fire & Rescue to carry out fire risk assessments with the aim of improving fire safety awareness. They wear uniforms that resemble those worn by police officers.
The services of the Bobby Van Trust are free of charge.