When Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (now known as Community Safety Partnerships) were established by the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, they were required to produce a Crime and Disorder Strategy which covered three years. This Strategy was to be based on the information contained within the Crime and Disorder Audit.

In 2007, the government introduced a new set of Statutory Requirements for Community Safety Partnerships. One of these was to produce a three yearly Partnership Plan which should be updated annually following the production of the Strategic Assessment.

Rutland Community Safety Partnership's first Partnership Plan was agreed in March 2008 and is available below.

The Community Safety Partnership Plan has idenitified four key priorities for 2008 - 2011:

ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

To reduce the fear and incidents of anti social behaviour

Ensuring that when anti social behaviour does occur, action is taken quickly and effectively to tackle it and minimise the harm caused.

Ensuring that the public are made aware of the work being done to tackle anti social behaviour, including enabling them to become more involved in that work.

Youth Offending Service and Children's Services work to prevent young people from becoming involved in crime and anti social behaviour as well as to protect them from becoming victims.

ROAD SAFETY

To support the provision of a safe, convenient, efficient and attractive integrated transport infrastructure

Education: road safety advice and information is made available to those who are most at risk of being involved in an accident.

Enforcement: those people who use the roads illegally are brought to justice.

Engineering: where necessary changes are made to the road infrastructure (whether those changes to speed limits or physical changes) to reduce te likelihood of accidents.

VOLUME CRIME*

* Voume crime is defined as burglary, vehicle crime and violent crime.

To reduce serious volume crime based on the following themes:

Victim based: Focusing on the factors which cause vulnerability and aim to mitigate those factors.

Location and hotspot related issues: Mitigating those environmental issues which increase the likihood of crime taking place.

Domestic Violence: Increase reporting and the proper marketing of relevant support services, increase the proportion of offences which result in a detection.

Alcohol: Alcohol is a key factor in violent crime and domestic violence. The Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) and the Primary Care Trust (PCT) will, therefore, be conducting work on improving services for the identifcation, treatment and support of those people with alcohol related problems.

REDUCING RE-OFFENDING

To reduce re-offending through the improved management of offenders:

By the continuing improvement of offender management by Probation and Youth Offending Services.

The Multi Agency Prolific and Priority Offender Management Scheme (MAPPOM) will also deliver work with those offenders identified as causing most harm to communities.