Safer Communities Plan 2009 – 2012

This Safer Communities Plan sets out the County Council’s aims for ensuring that our county is a safe environment for all the people who live, work and visit Leicestershire.  We have already achieved much in partnership to improve the quality and safety of people’s lives and this Plan gives us the opportunity to do more.

We will play our part in delivering the priorities identified in the Leicestershire Sustainable Community Strategy, in the second Local Area Agreement, the Leicestershire Safer Communities Agreement as well as local Community Safety Plans.

The Sustainable Community Strategy outlines the things that local people see as a priority and our Local Area Agreement sets out how we will tackle the most important of these issues.   We will ensure that priority is given to the contribution of County Council services in the delivery of the safer communities outcomes in the Local Area Agreement, particularly in respect of increasing the confidence of local people in the way that crime and anti-social behaviour is dealt with in their areas and in reducing re-offending.

Our priorities include making communities stronger and more effective, reducing serious violent crime, acquisitive crime, and reducing the harm caused by drugs and alcohol, We also need to ensure that residents actually feel reassured by the efforts that we are making through partnership working to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.   

I am looking forward to working with all our partners to deliver against the targets set within the Sustainable Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement.  I welcome the new challenges and opportunities which lie ahead.   This Plan will inevitably develop further as we progress, but the overall aim will be to achieve safer communities and improve the quality of life for those who live, work and visit Leicestershire.