New Community Safety Team For South Bedfordshire
Through a merger of the existing Community Safety Team with the Envirocrime Team they now have four key areas of work:
· Anti Social Behaviour
· Environmental Crime
· CCTV
· Partnership working through the Community Safety Partnership
The two teams have always worked closely together but this merger will ensure that this work continues while also strengthening the obvious links between these areas of work. In terms of the service to the public and the partners of the South Bedfordshire Community Safety Partnership there will be no obvious change, although over the coming months the team will be further developing our work around prevention, intervention and enforcement to ensure that the council takes a balanced approach to its community safety work.
The team has already achieved some great successes. Notably joint working with Bedfordshire Police in Leighton Buzzard where they tackled potential fly-tippers with road side checks, successfully applied for orders banning anti social groups from Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard and have also helped set up the first South Bedfordshire PUB:SAFE scheme which has recently been launched.
South Bedfordshire’s Community Safety Manager Jeanette Keyte said: “The merger of the teams into a single Community Safety Team is an extremely positive move and the team and I are looking forward to engaging residents of South Bedfordshire to make further improvements to the services that we provide, allowing us to take a more coordinated and structured approach across the areas of work that we cover”.
