Partnership keeps Winchester communities safe
A partnership approach is helping to keep communities across the Winchester district safe.
Winchester City Council’s Community Safety and Neighbourhood Services Team works side-by-side with the police, Council teams and others as part of the Community Safety Partnership to deliver a range of actions that reduce crime and disorder.
An annual review of the service highlights key achievements including:
• Supporting an immigration operation which led to an individual being detained
• Securing a closure order against a tenant for allowing premises to be used for drug-dealing
• Responding to anti-social behaviour in hotspot locations
• Taking part in a joint operation to engage with rough sleepers
• Using dispersal orders to tackle alcohol-related anti-social behaviour
• Undertaking regular checks on countryside areas
• Serving removal notices on illegal encampments
• Dealing with more than 160 abandoned vehicles and bicycles
• Investigating 35 fly-tipping cases
• Organising community, school and student activities
Cllr Lisa Griffiths, Winchester City Council’s Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing, said:
A low level of crime is among the reasons that Winchester achieved the accolade of ‘best place to live in the country’.
Our partnership approach is essential to tackling low-level crime and disorder before it escalates which in turn plays a big part in helping residents to feel safe.