A consultation to help shape community safety priorities in the Dorset Council area is online now.
The Dorset Community Safety Partnership (CSP) brings together organisations including the council, NHS and police to tackle community safety issues in the area.
The CSP has used crime data and findings from consultations to start working out the issues it should prioritise and include in its new Community Safety Plan.
The partnership has launched an online consultation to find out what people think about the priorities and what other community safety issues they think should be included.
Cllr Andrew Kerby, Chair of the CSP said:
“The CSP looks at how organisations respond to issues and highlights where lessons can be learned. We want to create safer communities, so we want to know what people think of the proposed priorities for the coming year.”
The consultation is open until 1 March. To complete it and find more information on the Dorset CSP go to www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/community-safety-partnership
You could start with basics. Leave street lights on from dusk to dawn.
Where is the consultation?
If you want to give views on Dorset Council area, please click the link on the article which will take you to the Dorset Community Safety web page. There is a grey box at the top of that page which has the link to the consultation. Thanks, Paul
I cannot see a suitable place to express my concern. Regarding safety I am upset to see that BCP is to consider lifting the ban on cycling during the summer along the promenade. Rogue cyclists are already a problem but if given permission I fear for the safety of children and pedestrians. Why was the ban introduced in the first place unless it was thought to be an aid to safety?
Hi. The Dorset Community Safety Partnership does not cover the BCP area. They have a separate partnership. If you want to give views on Dorset Council area, please click the link on the article which will take you to the Dorset Community Safety web page. There is a grey box at the top of that page which has the link to the consultation. Thanks, Paul
I think that not giving planning permission on mass to areas of flooding would help a great deal. As well as not packing new housing into historic Wimborne that has ancient bridges for access and a narrow one way system! Leads to severe congestion and gridlock with lorries and cars belching out toxic fumes to all around.
There is no train access unless one gets to Poole, Bournemouth or Southampton. All of which in rush hour takes hours and even more should you have to use the bus!
So please look at the infrastructure and ramifications of what you are enabling to happen.
One of the CSP priorities has got to be educating and informing over how County Lines drug dealing could be affecting our more remote towns with fairly thin policing. Here PCSOs acting on their own knowledge and help from the public are going to be vital in spotting such things as ‘cuckooing’ vulnerable peoples’ properties and the shifts in drug usage in our communities – indicating the presence of more damaging Class A drugs. Stetted policing can only hope to be effective with decent intelligence. The threats from organised crime gangs to small urban communities is real.
Web need more police men and women on the ground day and especially at night. It’s not rocket science.
I live in Weymouth.
traffic speeding through Maiden Newton. Should be a 20mph throughout village to include Back lane Frome Vauchurch and Frome Lane leading to it.
The Friends of Rodwell Trail, Weymouth [FoRT] see every year nice young people flexing their wings and yet not knowing what to do whilst around them drugs are openly being consumed. Bad language, littering and now destructive behaviour; surely the directed thinking and parenting/civic education “what sort of society do we all want?”, “where do I fit in and what are my responsibilities?”, to hone this message needs more vigour!
FoRT would like to know what the message is, who and how this is being delivered out in detail and who it is being delivered to?? Can we be sure that preventative investment is happening, that children get to think about civic issues and self worth and personal responsibility??
FoRT think that all local school children need to think through what sort of society they want to live in and what their responsibility is and how they might play a worthwhile part. Interventions prior to the key transitions from leaving Primary and end of GSCE’s when they are let free make sense to us.
What young people spend their money on has a huge effect and buying into the criminals drug world feeds destruction. Bad habits start early and there are all types of addictions and coercive behaviours. Most kids have access to silly money the question is what do they spend it on – drugs – is now so so common and this money is corrupting our society.
Weymouth has some very accessible routes to having fun, gaining self-worth and personal development – Weymouth has the very best in Cadets programmes how can we get this ambition more widely taken up? Surely living in Weymouth should be a fabulous place to grow up??
Not having any direction in life should not stop kids having a healthy childhood.”