What are they?
We will continue to improve the quality of life for people in Guildford by working together to make the borough an even safer place.
Neighbourhoods:
- Reduce anti-social behaviour in communities.
- Work with young people who are victims and offenders.
- Promote Neighbourhood Teams of Neighbourhood Specialist Police Officer, Police Community Support Officer, Community Safety Warden and others.
- Reduce the number of complaints and educate residents on the environmental impact of litter.
- Reduce the number of instances of criminal damage.
- Ensure that community events are suitable for all ages.
- Contribute towards funding the Drugs Action Team Housing Strategy Worker.
Town Centre:
- Reduce drunkenness in Guildford town centre.
- Raise awareness of the health risks of binge drinking.
- Reduce violent and alcohol related crime in Guildford town centre.
- Ensure victims of violent crime receive the support they need.
Crime Reduction:
- Monitor and reduce burglary, vehicle crime and robbery.
- Specifically work to reduce the number of repeat distraction burglaries.
- Monitor all crimes, comparing our performance with similar Crime and Disorder Partnerships.
- Monitor the basket of ten crimes against which our crime reduction target of 15% is being measured.
- Monitor and reviewing all hate crimes every three months.
Visit Surrey Police website for further information on crime reduction
Transportation:
- Reduce the number of people citing speed as a problem in Lovelace, Normandy, Friary and St Nicolas, Christchurch, Stoughton, Effingham and Pirbright.
- Continue to reduce the numbers of people killed or seriously injured on Guildford’s roads.
Substance Misuse:
- Reduce the supply of drugs locally, thus reducing the amount of drug and alcohol-related crime and disorder by providing a multi-agency response.
- Continue to raise awareness of substance misuse across the community and in particular amongst young people.
- Encourage drug and chronic alcohol offenders into approved treatment programmes (e.g. Drugs Intervention Programme).
- Continue to support the wider police division and Surrey-wide substance misuse agendas.
Download the Drug related litter pdf for more info.
See the Drink Spiking Awareness video here.
Domestic Abuse:
- Continue to raise awareness of domestic abuse across the community.
- Continue to support victims of domestic abuse to report incidents and access services.
- Maintain existing levels of outreach service and look to create a more sustainable Countywide outreach service.
- Consider options to improve services to victims of domestic abuse.
- Ensure access to training for agencies working with people that may be at risk of or who have experienced domestic abuse.
- Identify prolific offenders and process them in the justice system as quickly as possible.
- Continue to seek to support the wider police division and Surrey-wide Domestic Abuse Agendas, including the county Public Sector Agreement on Domestic Abuse.