Agenda and minutes

·         The next annual review to set priorities for the Community Safety Partnership to focus on was to be held in January 2020 and elected Members were welcome to attend

·         The Devon Strategic assessment was still outstanding but this would give the top 10 priorities for Devon and be a basis to work on in January 2020

·         Funding for the partnership came from the Police Crime Commissioner’s Office and as such it was hoped that priorities would be aligned with their Office

·         Every two to three months Partner Leads met to discuss priorities

·         Within the two Local Authorities regular meetings took place

·         The North Devon area is one of the safest areas to live nationally, it is thought that this is down to the hard working partnership

·         Community safety not always rated highly enough against other priorities such as road deaths, drug activity and domestic abuse

·         A Community Safety Partnership newsletter had been launched which would provide a twice yearly update on the work achieved by the Partnership

·         Members were invited to attend Bitesize sessions which were a positive training session provided on topics such as Modern Day Slavery, County Lines and Terrorism

·         The way crime was committed had changed over the last ten to fifteen years

·         Unannounced visits had taken place at businesses implicated with modern day slavery practices and the employment of migrant workers

·         Intensive focus had been made on County Lines building up intelligence which had helped to deter dealers moving into the area as it was unattractive for them to come to the area

·         There had been successful raids made on House’s in Multiple Occupation

·         £100, 000 funding had been secured to help schools deliver the Personal, Social, Health and Economic programme

·         Operation Snap had delivered road safety campaigns successfully, dash cam footage could be uploaded to the Police and used as evidence in road offences, a lorry advertising campaign promoting road safety and driving instructors received training on promoting client messages of road safety

·         Street marshalling had been successful in helping reduce the number of incidents that the Police had to be called to deal with

·         Reminders were to be sent out to Partnership members advising them to attend future meetings

·         Links with One Northern Devon Healthcare meant the CSP were able to look at the causes of people committing crimes, building up a trauma informed knowledge base

·         The priority setting meeting scheduled to take place in January 2020 would comprise of a half- day session looking at areas of concern and the second half of the day would focus on how to tackle these areas of concern