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Community Safety Unit

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Making Newham a safer place to live, work and visit is the Community Safety Unit's chief purpose.

What we do
  • Assist the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) - a statutory partnership between the local authority, police, probation, health and fire services
  • Develop strategies to tackle crime and fear of crime and to promote community safety locally
  • Implement and monitor the CDRP three year crime and drugs strategy
  • Ensure that information and consultation with residents feeds into planning cycles for the Local Strategic Partnership, budgets and community projects
  • Monitor and promote good relations between statutory partners and the community and voluntary sectors
  • Provide strategic and policy support for the crime and Anti-Social Behavour (ASB) service
  • Contribute and lead on various corporate community safety initiatives for the council


Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

The Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership exists to make Newham a safer place to live and work by reducing crime and anti social behaviour, tackling substance misuse and addressing the fear of crime across all sections of the community.

To achieve this we carry out:

  • An audit of crime and disorder, every three years,
  • Consult with local people and organisations on what they think our priorities should be,
  • Develop a three year strategy for reducing crime, the impact of crime, anti social behaviour and drug related activity.

The unit also works with a wide range of local community and voluntary organisations to deliver our strategies. The ASB coordinator liaises with various partnership groups to reduce ASB in the borough.

Newham CDRP meets bi-monthly. The Board consists of the following committee members:

For further information about CDRP meetings visit Local Strategic Partnership CDRP - Agenda and Minutes.

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