North Yorkshire Council

 

Thirsk & Malton Area Committee

 

12 June 2026

 

Community Safety and CCTV Service Annual Update

 

 

 

1.0       PURPOSE OF REPORT

 

1.1       To provide Members with an annual update on the work of the Community Safety and CCTV service in the Thirsk and Malton areas.  This will include a focus on Community Safety Hubs, CCTV and the wider strategic Community Safety Partnership thematic work areas.  

 

 

2.0       SUMMARY

 

2.1       The report provides an overview of Community Safety, CCTV and wider thematic delivery and the priorities for the year ahead.

 

3.0       COMMUNITY SAFETY HUB UPDATE

           

3.1       Community Safety Hubs remain an integral delivery model with a consistent approach now agreed for North Yorkshire alongside North Yorkshire Police. This includes dedicated police resources working alongside NYC Community Safety Officers at co-located sites.

 

3.2       Roles and responsibilities have been clearly defined with the Community Safety Hubs (CSH’s) providing a coordinated partnership problem solving approach to tackle local         issues and concerns by making best use of the legislative and voluntary provisions. There      is a focus on early intervention through the development of Children and Young People Multi Agency Problem Solving Meetings.

 

3.3       The CSH’s report to the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) through the Joint Delivery Group (JDG). The function of the JDG is drive the delivery of community safety locally and have a vision for the future in an area of work that continues to evolve

 

3.4       The Community Safety and CCTV Service has developed and adopted an Antisocial Behaviour Framework that aligns with the tools and legislative powers. Training has been delivered to provided enhance skills to the Teams.

3.5       Outlined below is a summary of some of the key activities delivered during 2025-26:

·           We run events and education sessions around the national awareness weeks. We have a calendar of events spanning the full year in line with national awareness weeks and campaigns.

·           Operation Dark Nights, Crime Prevention and target hardening materials delivered in isolated rural areas.

·           Project Community – community engagement and reassurance

·           Op Alibi for Northern Ryedale targeting theft of quads

·           Early intervention and reassurance along with physical target hardening

·           Ensuring safeguarding and mental health support agencies are in place

·           Fortnightly Multi-Agency Problem Solving (MAPS) meetings are held to tackle concerns and work collaboratively with other partners and agencies.

·           Community MAPS meetings are well established in Thirsk, Easingwold and the Ryedale area. With a focus on engagement at ASB hotspot locations and providing information and support to Councillors and all agencies in attendance.

·           Target hardening approach – identification of repeat hotspot locations

·           Continue to work with Thirsk Leisure Centre to tackle ASB involving young people

·           Managing ASB in the marketplace and linking in with Thirsk youth club.

 

3.6       Outlined below are the local priorities for 2026-27

 

·           Anti-social behaviour – Providing focus on early intervention, prevention and diversion

·           Hotspot Locations – Sycamore Avenue, Birch Avenue, Castlegate, Thirsk Leisure Centre, Thirsk Market Place.

·           Multi Agency Problem Solving (MAPS) meetings – Children and adults

·           Rural crime – Operation Alibi for Northern Ryedale, targeting theft of quads

·           Mental health (MH) impact, adults causing ASB due to non-engagement with MH services

·           Funded projects – Bleed kits and knife bins

·           Night-time economy – Positive engagement and multi-agency hi visibility presence

·           Supporting local delivery of the key priorities of the Community Safety Partnership

·           Target hardening approach, delivered to vulnerable communities and individuals identified through referrals into the Community Safety Hub and multi-agency visits

·           Partnership working

·           Community engagement

·           Enforcement – Utilising civil powers such as Community Protection Warnings, Community Protection Notices, Criminal Behaviour Orders and Injunctions, where necessary.

 

3.7       Appendix A provides a summary of performance information relating to Community Safety during 2025-26.

 

4.0       COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP

 

4.1       To ensure alignment with other Community Partnerships across the country a decision was agreed to adopt a new logo that visually reflects both Community and Safety along with renaming the partnership to Safer North Yorkshire.  Members of the partnership agreed that this is a positive move forward.  The 2025-26 annual report has been agreed by members.

 

Safer North Yorkshire Partnership have implemented an annual face-to-face partnership development day for all members to attend in September following the overall agreement that the previous year's meeting was successful in bringing members together to take a proactive approach and commitment around delivering the strategic priorities

 

The Hambleton and Ryedale Community Safety Hubs undertake work that supports the strategic priorities of the North Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership. This work is driven by the Partnership Team within Community Safety and supported by staff members of the locally based Community Safety Hubs.

 

North Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership Strategic Plan 2024 – 2028 is available online.

 

 

4.2       Domestic Abuse

 

Local Aim

We will focus on prevention by proactively increasing understanding of healthy      relationships across all age groups, while raising awareness of domestic abuse to ensure early identification and the promotion of specialist services. Our aim is to provide support early and ultimately eradicate abuse.”

 

·           Stalking Awareness Week: 21.04.25 to 25.04.25

·           Safeguarding Week: 16.06.25 to 20.06.25

·           16 Days of Action: 25.11.25 to 10.12.25

·           Male Victims of Domestic Abuse: 13.04.26 to 17.04.26

 

To support these key campaigns and to ensure a strong local presence, community engagement events were delivered across the county. These events enhanced visibility of domestic abuse issues and strengthened community awareness.

 

The events provided valuable opportunities to involve partner agencies, ensuring that residents could access immediate, informed advice, while clearly demonstrating the strength and consistency of local partnership working. Partner organisations included: North Yorkshire Police, Independent Domestic Abuse Service, North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, St. Giles Trust, and NYC colleagues from a range of services.

 

Locations were selected to maximise reach and engagement, reflecting the focus of each campaign. Engagement was achieved across a diverse range of settings including colleges, hospitals, local markets, libraries, community centres, leisure centres, supermarkets, and community cafes.  This approach ensured contact with a broad cross-section of the community, including harder-to-reach groups. Events were supported by a range of resources aimed at prompting meaningful conversations, raise awareness of key issues, and equip individuals with practical information to take away.

 

To extend the impact beyond face-to-face engagement, a coordinated communications approach was implemented. This included social media posts, radio coverage, a press release and both internal and external newsletters. Collectively, these channels significantly amplified campaign reach and reinforced key messaging across the county.

 

4.3       Preventing and reducing serious violence

 

The Serious Violence Duty was introduced through the Police, Crime, Sentencing andCourts Act 2022.The Duty emphasises a whole‑system, multi‑agency approach and requires partners to share information, jointly assess local need, and coordinate interventions

 

A partnership approach to understanding and reducing serious violence and identifying the nature of violence within our local communities is supported by the North Yorkshire & York Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA) of Serious Violence (2025/2026) has recently been published.

 

Across North Yorkshire the completion of the siting of over 20 knife bins in 17 locations with an interactive map enabling residents to locate exact location of their local bin. The bins are emptied by North Yorkshire Police on a regular basis who safely dispose of the items. 

In addition, 45 bleed kits have been installed proactively supporting the duty.

 

The Community Safety Hubs support the duty with a proactive and operational approach which includes the Clear, Hold, Building initiative in Barrowcliff Ward of Scarborough, Project Community – a multi-agency approach giving a visible presence in our communities and Children's Multi-agency Problem Solving meetings to support young people on the periphery of anti-social behaviour.

 

Training and Community Engagement – a significant undertaking of mandatory training for all Community Safety Hub teams around the tools and powers within their remit to ensure a consistent approach to tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB).

 

4.4       Standing Together to Tackle Hate Crime, Radicalisation and Extremism

 

North Yorkshire governance for Prevent and Protect & Prepare

North Yorkshire Council’s Community Safety and CCTV Service lead on the ‘Protect and Prepare’ and ‘Prevent’ strands of the CONTEST Strategy. To support compliance with the Prevent Duty 2015 and the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill (Martyn’s Law), both internal NYC strategic groups and local multi-agency groups have been established and are now well embedded.

 

The local multiagency groups cover the following areas:

 

·        West (Ripon, Richmond, Skipton, Northallerton including its outer areas of Northallerton)

·        Central (Harrogate, Selby, Knaresborough, Ainsty)

·        East (Scarborough, Whitby, Thirsk, Malton, Easingwold)

 

Each of these local group’s report on their local activity directly into the York & North Yorkshire Prevent Partnership Board, the NYC Strategic Protect & Prepare Group both chaired by the Assistant Chief Executive (Local Engagement Directorate), Safer North Yorkshire (North Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership) and the York & North Yorkshire CONTEST Board.

 

North Yorkshire Channel Panel is a multi-agency group that assesses individuals who may be vulnerable to radicalisation and develops tailored support plans to reduce their risk, safeguard them, and steer them away from extremist influences. North Yorkshire Channel is chaired by North Yorkshire Council Head of Community Safety and CCTV and meets monthly and continues to be a busy space.

 

Local activity/engagement

·         Locality bases workshops to support the annual review of the Counter Terrorism Local Profile (CTLP) engaging 100 practitioners across the county.

·         Annual Multi Agency Prevent Champions Event 13th May 226 engaging 80 safeguarding practitioners from a variety of organisations.

·         North Yorkshire Council’s ‘Martyns Law’ Engagement Conference was hosted on 26th September 2025 in which Figen Murray was the main speaker. The event attracted over 170 participants from across the local retail and hospitality businesses, event organisers and community and voluntary sector.

·         Local SCaN/ACT and Martyns Law awareness sessions delivered in partnership with Counter Terrorism Security Advisors across localities to local retail businesses and community and voluntary groups.

·         Additional counter terrorism support offered to major annual events taking place across North Yorkshire.

·         Quarterly North Yorkshire ‘Protect and Prepare’ newsletter for partners to help inform partners of both national and local information.

 

Hate Crime and Community Cohesion

The York and North Yorkshire Inclusive Communities Joint Coordinating Group continues to work in partnership to address hate crime while strengthening more inclusive, cohesive and resilient communities across the region.

 

Hate Crime Awareness Week (11 October 2025)

Activity during Hate Crime Awareness Week included a range of local engagement initiatives across the county, working alongside businesses, MENCAP and a local theatre group to raise awareness and promote inclusion.

As part of the week, Safer North Yorkshire hosted a Hate Crime Conference attended by around 100 professionals from a wide range of organisations. The event featured national and local speakers, alongside powerful contributions from individuals with lived experience.

 

The conference also marked the launch of the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime and Community Cohesion Plan on a Page (2025–2028) Y&NY Hate Crime and Community Cohesion Plan on a Page 2025-2028.pdf, which sets out a shared vision:

 

‘To work together to create a future where hate has no place, where communities are empowered, their voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and accepted—supporting York and North Yorkshire to be the safest and most welcoming place for all.’

 

Hate Crime Awareness and Champions accredited training has been delivered jointly by North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Council to a variety of organisations including NYC Health and Adult Service, NYC Housing Management Teams, NHS Teams and Community and Voluntary Sector.

 

5.0       PUBLIC OPEN SPACE CCTV

 

5.1       A strategic review of public space CCTV arrangements has been initiated. The review is being led by Alastair Taylor (NYNet) and reports to a strategic steering group chaired by Rachel Joyce, Assistant Chief Executive, North Yorkshire Council. The steering group includes representation from across the Council, including procurement and information governance, as well as partners from the York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and North Yorkshire Police. The review will undertake a comprehensive assessment of current arrangements, evaluating the effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance of existing systems. It will make recommendations to ensure that CCTV provision continues to support community safety, crime prevention, and public confidence, while fully respecting privacy and legal obligations. The steering group is meeting on a monthly basis. The review is currently in the evidence-gathering phase, with engagement and consultation taking place across key stakeholders, including a questionnaire to Parish Councils. It is anticipated that initial findings and recommendations will be presented to the steering group in early summer, with further reporting and decision-making to follow.

 

5.2       The Harrogate CCTV Control Room has integrated the cameras from Northallerton, Bedale, Thirsk, Stokesley, Selby, Tadcaster & Sherburn in Elmet into the 24-hour service. This process has maximised the use of NYNET fibre infrastructure and has also included upgrading of some existing cameras to digital quality. The control room has live radio communications to North Yorkshire Police via Airwaves.

 

5.3       The cameras are registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) for the prevention and detection of crime. The cameras are not used for any enforcement purposes, traffic management, monitoring of roadworks or weather relates issues. The CCTV Service liaises with other departments, and reports concerns or risks that may be identified through routine surveillance.

 

5.4       The majority of evidence is produced for North Yorkshire Police via a Service Level Agreement. This is provided electronically to their cloud-based system NICE. The allows quick time provision of data and saves time for officers as there is no requirement to attend the CCTV Control Room. Airwaves radio allows CCTV to speak direct to the force control room and officers.

 

5.5       Appendix A provides a summary of CCTV performance during 2025-26.

 

6.0       RECOMMENDATIONS

 

i)      Annual updates are presented to the Area Committee alongside colleagues from North Yorkshire Police.

ii)     Feedback is provided on the Strategic Review of Public Open Space CCTV across North Yorkshire.

 

 

Report authors: Rhian Buglass Senior Community Safety Officer / Helenor Gwatkin Senior Community Safety Officer / Paul Romans Community Safety & CCTV Manager

 

Presenters of report – Rhian Buglass Senior Community Safety Officer / Helenor Gwatkin Senior Community Safety Officer / Paul Romans Community Safety & CCTV Manager

 

Appendix A

 

Community Safety and CCTV Performance Summary 2025-26

Thirsk and Malton

 

KNIFE BINS

Date Installed

Total No of deposits

Millgate Car Park, Thirsk

21/02/2025

226

Wentworth Street Car Park, Malton

21/02/2025

94

Vivis Lane Car Park, Pickering

21/02/2025

98

 

Bleed kit locations

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93A Market Place, Thirsk

Market Place Toilets, Malton

Public Toilets, Church Street, Norton-on-Derwent

40 Market Place, Pickering

Moorside Room, 9 Church Street, Kirkbymoorside

Borogate Public Toilets, Helmsley

North Yorkshire Council Library, Station Avenue, Filey

 

ASB Management, tools and powers

 

Orcuma Cases – coordinated by the CSH

93

Orcuma Enquiries – referred into the CSH

76

Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO’s) (currently in place)

0

Closure Order (LA or Police led)

Partial = 0 Full = 1

Community Protection Warnings (CPW) Issued

3

Community Protection Notices (CPN) Issued

2

Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC) Issued

8

Antisocial Behaviour Case Reviews (formally Community Trigger)

0

 

Town

Public Open Space CCTV Cameras

Total number of cameras per town

Incidents Total per town

Top Types of Incidents

Thirsk

 

12

12

09/25 - 31/03/26

 

105

 

No data before this date.

Traffic observations (18)

Assault violence (10)

Road traffic accident (10)

Suspect person / obs on known offender (11)

ASB (7)

Drunk driver OPL (5)   

Filey

20

29

128

Police Request (30), Concern for Welfare (12), ASB (11), Misper (9), Driving Offences (7)

 

 

 

Town

CCTV Reviews for NYP

CCTV Evidence Produced NYP

Other Evidence e.g. BTP, Third Party

Thirsk

19 reviews requested

 

CCTV operators spent 7 hours 30 minutes reviewing footage from Thirsk relating to incidents.

15 clips of footage uploaded to NYP. All vary in length of time, usually from a few minutes worth of footage to 45 minutes worth of footage.

0

Filey

19

14

0