Safe Communities
Safe Communities is one of the 5 themes for the Buckinghamshire family of Sustainable Community Strategies. You will be able to track progress in Buckinghamshire on this theme here.
What are aiming to achieve by 2026?
Buckinghamshire is a safe place to live and work, but our ambition is to improve further so that we are among the safest areas in the country.
Residents have consistently ranked crime, the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour as the most important issues for them and their quality of life. Our key priorities are to:
• reduce crime levels to the minimum possible; and,
• address the underlying reasons why residents’ fear of crime is greater than actual levels of crime.
We will work to reduce the crime issues that affect residents. We recognise that not all crimes have the same impact across the County. For example, serious acquisitive crime is a more significant problem in the south of the County, while anti-social behaviour is more concentrated around town centres. We will take into account these differences as well as addressing any cross-border issues affecting the safety of residents. The impact of alcohol and drugs misuse will be a priority.
We will also address those aspects of our environment which impact on crime and the fear of crime. For example, we will aim to ‘design out’ crime in residential and business developments.
We will further improve our fire safety record as well as the safety of young people and vulnerable communities. We will press for even further reductions in the numbers injured or killed in road collisions.
Finally, the national concerns over violent extremism will be considered in a local context and we will work with all our communities to resist extremist activity.
We aim to:
- Reduce crime (including anti-social behaviour
- Reduce fear of crime
- Reduce the harms caused by alcohol and drugs
- Improve the safety of local people
- Safe development
- Sustain local resilience to violent extremism
How will we do this?
As the website is developed, we will communicate examples of how Safe Communities is being promoted in Buckinghamshire.
For more information call 01296 387831 or email bsp@buckscc.gov.uk
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