Join the CREW
Hampshire Constabulary, Fareham Borough Council, partners and the local community are kicking off another CREW - Crime Reduction Environment Week. It's an initiative aimed at reducing crime and creating cleaner, safer neighbourhoods.
Members of the multi-agency CREW team will be offering information and advice to the local community on wide-ranging issues such as home safety checks, youth initiatives and crime prevention.
Throughout the week agency partners will be conducting reassurance patrols and enforcing the laws over such matters as litter dropping and failing to clear up dog foul.
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Sergeant Roy Jennings said: “I would like to encourage all residents living in this area to go along to the Working Men’s Club, where we are going to be based, to get involved. All activities are free of charge and can benefit individuals and the wider community.
You mean they're not going to charge you to pick up trash by the side of the road? Seriously, it sounds like a great initiative. Blitzing an area to improve the environment and raising awareness among those who live and work there.
Fun ways to prevent fire
Sheffield has come up with a cool way to get across the message about safety and fire prevention focused particularly at ethnic minority communities. Go through the kids. This can be particularly important where children may be the only members of the hosuehold with a good command of English. And what do kids like? Kids like crafts. (Well, I did.)
The Council's Sheffield Council’s City Centre Community Participation Project has teamed up with the Pakistan and Muslim Centre to provide innovative ways of getting across important issues.
Councillor Denise Fox, Cabinet Advisor for Community Safety said: “The aim of the project was to highlight issues around fire safety within the home with children and young people. The young people who took part used the digital art programme created by Shahid Latif as an effective medium to reinforce the message and raise awareness of the importance of fire safety within the community.”
Children who took part in the workshop were educated on the risks of fire in the home and developed their own fire safety messages via a digital art programme. Their designs were further developed into T Shirts that the children took home.
And what did the kids say?
Aqsa Ashraf (age10) said: “It was fun, I really enjoyed it, I have learnt so much, I would like to do it again”
Isaac Ali (age 9) said: “I really enjoyed doing graphic art it was amazing”
Lend an ear, or at least a phone
Hounslow Community Safety Partnership has developed an interesting initiative where old mobile phones can help the victims of domestic violence. Essentially they're turned into mobile alarms that can ring 999 at the press of any button.
Partnering for better PM
I meant to blog about this last week, but anyway better late than never.
Oxfordshire County Council is leading a partnership of 12 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire authorities that are in line to receive £1m of extra funding from central government in return for working together to improve performance.
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