Sept. 21, 2020, 6 p.m.
This is a meeting of the Joint Crime and Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Basingstoke/Hart/Rushmoor) of Rushmoor Borough Council held on the 21st Sep 2020.
The last meeting was on 9th Sep 2024. The next meeting is scheduled for 19th Jun 2025.
Remote Meeting - Link to view the meeting is below
No recordings have been submitted for this meeting yet. If you have one, you can Upload a Recording
Item | Title | Minutes |
1 | APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR |
Councillor Miller was elected as Chair for the 2020/21 municipal year. |
2 | APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND SUBSTITUTIONS |
Apologies were received from: Councillor A Crawford (Rushmoor). James
Duggin – Head of Operational Services, Rushmoor BC Kirsty
Jenkins – Head of Community Services, Hart DC Ryan Thurman – Group Commander for North Hampshire, Hampshire Fire and Rescue |
3 | DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST |
There were no declarations of interest. |
4 | URGENT MATTERS |
There were no urgent matters. |
5 | MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 16 DECEMBER 2019 |
Crime and Disorder Joint Scrutiny Committee - 19 December 2019 - draft minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 16 December 2019 were confirmed as a correct record. |
6 | PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF SAFER NORTH HAMPSHIRE STRATEGIC COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP 2019-20 |
Report to Crime and Disorder Joint Scrutiny Committee for Safer North Hampshire - September 2020
The committee considered the report which provided an
overview of the performance of the Safer North Hampshire Strategic Community
Safety Partnership. The Chair of the CSP introduced the report and highlighted
the timeframe and priorities of the review. He
stated that priorities for 2019/20 had been informed by issues identified in
the Strategic Assessment 2018/19 and were: -
Anti-social
behaviour with a focus on youth related nuisance; -
Domestic Abuse; -
Robbery; and -
Children at risk
with a focus on knife/blade related incidents. It was confirmed that those priorities linked with those contained in the Police and
Crime Plan 2016-21 and that this had encouraged partnership working. The system
of partner priority feedback proformas had been used for a second year and
these had provided good information with which would assist the committee to
scrutinise the partnership. It was confirmed that no proforma had been received
from Hampshire Council Council but that, since that
time, contact had been established with an appropriate officer. The Chair clarified that he intended to focus on the
appendices to the report and would invite partner agencies to present the
details of their own proformas. The committee discussed the proformas submitted by partner agencies. Shared Community Safety Team The Community Team Leader explained that, having
operated a shared service for many years, the community safety teams would
revert to being accountable at a local level from October 2020. The Community
Safety Partnership would continue, however, to operate across the three
component authorities, meaning that the Joint Scrutiny Committee would continue
to have a role in scrutinising the activities of the Partnership. It was reported that town centres had been a
particular issue in the past year. Injunctions had been used in relation to
individuals in Basingstoke and Deane and Rushmoor. Team members had continued to go into local schools, mainly through the
Education Officer. It was noted that the Education Officer role had been
jointly funded across the three authorities and that, as things stood, this
would end as the teams returned to local control. Concern was expressed around the currency of the data used in the report,
especially with regards to the use of the Strategic Assessment 2018-19. It was
explained that, whilst the Strategic Assessment had been used to develop the
Partnership’s broad priorities for 2019-20, day-to-day work was driven by the
most up to date data. Hampshire Constabulary – Hart and Rushmoor
District The District Commander provided an overview of the partnership working
over 2019/20 to tackle key priorities. In response to a question, the District Commander confirmed that data
was looked at daily or weekly. The Chair of the CSP explained that the data
analyst monitored data and would raise awareness in relation to identified
spikes or trends. Whilst a monthly update was produced, it was clarified that
the data was collected in real time and could, therefore, be broken down as
required, including to individual days. The District Commander acknowledged that there had been problems with
the Police’s 101 system and encouraged people to report local anti-social
behaviour using the Police’s dedicated web page. It was confirmed that domestic abuse had been an issue during lockdown
and that anti-social behaviour had increased since lockdown had been lifted. Hampshire Constabulary – Basingstoke District The District Commander informed the committee that many of the
priorities and issues in Basingstoke were similar to those given in the report
concerning the Hart and Rushmoor areas. The District Commander was new in post and was building on good work
started under her predecessor, especially in the area of children at risk. Stressed that anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse were prominent
issues in rural as well as urban areas. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service No representative was available from the Hampshire Fire and Rescue but
it was noted that by the Chairman that a common theme was that emergency
services staff remained under the threat of attack. North Hampshire CCG and North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG Steve Manley, representing the CCG, explained how the lockdown had
presented considerable challenges, especially in the areas of mental health and
domestic abuse. The Health Sector had made a deliberate move towards more
partnership working and this was well demonstrated by the successful joint
event held in the Aldershot Park ward in Rushmoor. It was felt that the existing proforma was not a good fit for the work
of the CCG and the Community Safety Team Leader confirmed that this could be
looked at to make improvements over the coming year. The Chairman stressed the importance of the health sector in crime and
disorder matters due to the fact that most victims would end up involved in the
care/health system. National Probation Service – Hampshire LDU No representative from the National Probation Service was available to
attend the meeting. Aldershot Garrison No representative from the Aldershot Garrison was available to attend
the meeting. Resolved:1)
That the committee is satisfied with the performance of the Strategic
CSP in relation to the discharge of its crime and disorder functions for 2019/20. 2)
That the comments of the committee be considered by the respective
councils. The meeting ended at 7.38 pm. |