Our services
Our community safety team is responsible for delivering a number of services including:
- Responding to reports of anti-social behaviour, offering community advice, and signposting to relevant agencies.
- Managing low level anti-social behaviour cases involving privately rented or home-owner properties, that require intervention or offer mediation.
- Delivering initiatives to address anti-social behaviour.
- Managing complex cases at vulnerability hub meetings.
- Attending the multi-agency child exploitation (MACE) hub meetings which looks at youth ASB, county lines and risks of exploitation.
- Attend and chair the multi agency risk assessment conference (MARAC) to address local complex cases, including domestic abuse cases.
- Running regular community safety campaigns and competitions to boost public awareness of how to increase community safety – across vehicle crime, home crime, doorstep crime, online crime, fire safety and more.
- Holding community and attending profile raising events to increase community confidence and spread key messages in relation to community safety.
- Working in conjunction with Staffordshire County Council on prevalent issues such as PREVENT, Protect and Prepare, modern day slavery, hate crime and child sexual exploitation.
- Leading on the delivery of the community safety delivery plan with partners and updating the police, fire and crime commissioner on progress.
- Administration of partnership groups.
The community safety team also administers the Local Community Safety Fund provided by the Staffordshire Commissioner which provides small grants for community safety projects each year.
You can contact the community safety team by email or call us on 01543 308777.