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Apologies for Absence
Minutes:
Apologies for absence were
received from Councillors Bonds, Chesters and White.
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To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 18th September 2018 (attached).  PDF 108 KB
Minutes:
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RESOLVED that the minutes of
the meeting held on 18th September 2018 (circulated
previously) be approved as a correct record and signed by the
Chairman.
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Declarations of Interests.
(Please telephone the Corporate
and Community Services team to prepare a form for your signature
before the meeitng. Interests must be re-declared when the item is
called, and Councillors must leave the room if
necessary).
Minutes:
The following declaration of
interest was announced:
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Councillor Worden
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All items – Personal
interest as his son was a detective for Devon and Cornwall
Police.
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Review of Performance of the Community Safety Partnership.
Presentation by Service Lead -
Community Safety Partnership Officer/Harm Risk and
Superintendent Toby Davies
LPA Commander North and West Devon.
Minutes:
The Crime
and Disorder Sub Committee received a presentation from the
Community Protection Officer on the review of performance of the
Community Safety Partnership 2018/19 and its future plans for
2019/20. The following points were
covered:
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A new analytical tool was being used to
prioritise and rank threats. This was
known as Management of Risk in Law Enforcement (MoRiLE).
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An item that was local could be pertinent
and flagged up. The amount of
prioritisation a threat was given was based on Devon wide
information.
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There would be a bitesize briefing in the
coming week around the risk of cyber fraud. This session would provide upskilling knowledge
which could then be filtered back to local communities at Parish
level.
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The issue of alcohol misuse was not limited
to anti-social behaviour on the street but included middle class
families where parents drank too much during the week.
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The percentage number of domestic abuse
figures were particularly high for North Devon as opposed to the
whole Devon area. This higher
prevalence in numbers suggested the public had the confidence to
report incidents and could be seen as a positive thing.
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There was a need for an elected Member to
sit on the new Forum that was being set up to discuss Domestic
Abuse and Sexual Violence.
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There was evidence to suggest that beggars
were travelling from out of the area to Barnstaple.
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The Crime
and Disorder Sub-Committee received a presentation from Sergeant
Noel Bourke entitled “Homeless/Street
entrenched”. The following points
were presented:
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The Partnership were working to get the
message across that rough sleeping was a social problem not a
criminal one. The safe sleep provision
at The Freedom Centre was available.
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There were better ways for members of the
public to help the homeless by donating cash to a registered
charity who helped work with the homeless as opposed to giving cash
to the person on the street.
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It was more common place for the outdated
Vagrancy Act (1824) not to be used. The more recent Anti-Social
Behaviour Act 2014, (updated December 2017) was being used
instead
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Police Officers along with NDC employees, accredited to take alcohol from
individuals, had spent the last four weeks in the town talking to
people and businesses gathering information on concerns and
‘hotspots’.
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The Barnstaple Town Centre Manager was in
agreement with displaying adverts in vacant shop windows and
getting stall holders to report any activity.
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The Chairman suggested that the Chamber of
Commerce were approached as businesses were affected by anti-social
behaviour.
In response to a question about attending
CSP meetings Sergeant Bourke advised
Members to contact him and he would
ensure they were able to attend.
In response to a question on whether
purchasing none-perishable goods to give to the homeless was
possible Sergeant Bourke advised that this had caused issues
whereby the person receiving such goods then returned them to the
store demanding a cash refund, it was not advisable to give
none-perishable goods.
In response to a concern raised about
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Community Safety Partnership (CSP) North Devon and Torridge priorities for 2019/20. PDF 2 MB
Presentation by
Service Lead - Community Safety Partnership
Officer/Harm
Risk and Superintendent Toby Davies LPA Commander
North and West
Devon.
Devon Strategic Assessment of Crime and Disorder 2018
(attached).
Minutes:
The Crime and Disorder sub-committee
considered the Community Safety Partnership North Devon and
Torridge priorities for 2019/20 report, (circulated previously), by
the Community Protection Officer.
The
following updates were given:
Road
Safety
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An advertising project was planned using
the backs of Lorries from a local lorry transporter firm to be
painted with road safety messages it was anticipated this would
begin in three months’ time.
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The same messages were to be painted onto
the backs of buses and this would happen sooner than the lorry
campaign.
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A local charity was to begin working with
local driving school instructors to incorporate safe driving
messages into their lessons. There
would be an accreditation scheme.
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In
response to a question about the number of deaths there had been on
the link road the Community Protection Officer advised he
didn’t know that information but that nationally it was not
considered high.
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