Safer North Devon, reducing crime and improving the quality of life

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Welcome to Safer North Devon

Safer North Devon is delivering solutions to reduce crime and improve the quality of life for all those who live, work and visit our community.

Our vision is to improve the quality of life for those who live work and visit by reducing crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour. Devon and Cornwall remains a safe place to live with a crime rate the 8th lowest nationally per 1,000 per population (Devon and Cornwall Constabulary 2007).

Safer North Devon is the joint Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP), also known as the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) for both North Devon & Torridge districts. We are part of a national network of CDRPs, and are accountable to seven bodies: Devon County Council, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, North Devon Council, Devon Primary Care Trust, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Devon and Cornwall Police Authority and Torridge District Council. Together we work on delivering solutions to reduce crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.

Operating from an office in Pilton, Barnstaple, the partnership has an operational team made up of local authority officers, police officers and support officers.

Within North Devon and Torridge we currently have the following priority areas:

We aim to act as a facilitating body to support partner agencies in addressing these issues.

Safer North Devon is an example of a long-standing effective partnership. In place since 1998, this partnership has tackled emerging problems head on and challenged us all to think in new and innovative ways to achieve maximum impact.You can view our initial plans for 2008- 2011 here.

Safer North Devon is part of the Safer Devon Partnership (SDP) which is a Devon-wide partnership delivering Safer Stronger Communities outcomes under the Devon Local Area Agreement (LAA).

Among other projects, this year we have helped to secure three youth shelters in areas where there was a lack of appropriate meeting places for young people, launched a Sparkplugs programme, and have developed and launched our new community safety website.

We are continually evolving to meet new government agendas and changing local needs, but always remain focussed on reducing crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.