Community Safety Partnership Arrangements

Across Leicestershire there are seven district-based CDRPs.  Since their establishment in 1998, CDRPs have been proactive in engaging key partners across Leicestershire and have made a significant contribution to improving community safety across the County. The County Council is an active member of each of the CDRPs and is committed to support and contribute to the implementation of each Crime, Disorder and Drugs Reduction Strategies. The current three year strategies cover the period 2005 to 2008.

Hosted and managed by the County Council, the DAAT is a multi-agency partnership body whose primary role is to ensure the local implementation of the National Drugs Strategy and to commission appropriate services for problematic drug users. Because of the close links between illegal drug misuse and crime, particularly acquisitive crime, the DAAT is required to have close working relationships with CDRPs.

The Community Safety Programme Board comprises chief officers and elected members from the main community safety and criminal justice partner agencies in the County, City and Rutland.  The CSPB co-ordinates the community safety and criminal justice agenda across the sub region of Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland. The Board has identified a number of key priorities and work streams, which are now closely aligned to the Safer Communities LAA outcomes outlined later in the Plan.

Although not strictly a community safety partnership, the Criminal Justice Board has a shared responsibility with CDRPs for a number of areas of common interest such as the Prolific and Other Priority Offenders Strategy, Domestic Violence, Community Re-assurance as well as its own specific criminal justice system priorities and objectives. The Board is made up of chief officers of the Police, Probation Service, Youth Offending Services, Crown Prosecution Service, HM Courts Service, HM Prisons Service, Criminal Defence Service and Victim Support.

These rather complex partnership arrangements are described in diagrammatic form in Appendix 2.