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Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) were formed as a result of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998) which places a duty on the Responsible Authorities to work together to reduce crime and disorder.
Following a seven year history of collaborative work the CDRP's for the districts of Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick were formally merged on 12 September 2008, becoming the South Warwickshire Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (SWCDRP).
The Partnership is made up of the following Responsible Authorities:
- Warwick District Council
- Stratford District Council
- Warwickshire County Council
- Warwickshire Police
- Warwickshire Police Authority
- Warwickshire Fire Authority
- South Warwickshire Primary Care Trust
- Warwickshire Probation
Priorities
SWCDRP is charged with developing and agreeing realistic and challenging targets annually to address crime and disorder.
The Partnership produces an annual strategic assessment which informs a rolling 3 year joint partnership plan to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in both districts. The Strategic Assessment identified a number of high risk issues and at the Strategic Member Board meeting of the SWCDRP on November 9th, 2009 the following crime types were confirmed as priorities and ranked as follows:
- Violent Crime
- Anti-Social Behaviour including criminal damage and arson
- Serious Acquisitive Crime
Problem Oriented Approach
SWCDRP has agreed to adopt the Problem Oriented Partnership (POP) approach to crime reduction. POP refers to the process used by agencies working in partnership to address the fundamental problems that underpin crime in order to improve community safety in a locality. POP approaches attempt to move beyond community safety being solely a matter of dealing with offenders through the criminal justice system. Whilst robust enforcement is an important part of the process, relying solely this has been described as treating the symptoms but not the illness. POP encourages the wider use of intelligence within a partnership setting to identify patterns of offences in relation to type of perpetrators, localities or victims. Problem solving techniques are employed to get to the root of the pattern and to put in place solutions that will make crime and disorder less likely to take place in the future.
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