Agenda item

A member of the public asked a question and was responded to as in minute 4 above.

 

Officers from the Community Safety and CCTV teams presented an annual update on the work of the team.

 

The report outlined the focus of:

 

Community Safety Hub:

 

·       Local issues and delivery – dealt with by joined up working with internal and external partners and multi-agency visits to the locations to provide engagement, awareness and evidence gathering where possible.

·       Ongoing work to tackle local issues – including Community Protection Warnings, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts, Criminal Behaviour Orders, rapid deployment CCTV cameras, MAPS meetings and work with partners such as the Police and social landlords.

·       Community Safety Hub tools and powers – use of tools and powers within the Anti-social behaviour, Crime and Police Act 2014

·       Project/thematic work – knife bins, “Bleed kits” in the local market towns, events and education sessions around national awareness weeks, links with local Policing teams and work with schools.

·       Community Safety Hub activity as per the Performance Framework - currently developing a Performance Framework to enable the Service to evidence performance against identifiable outcome measures

 

Community Safety Partnership

 

·       Domestic abuse - a crucial role in addressing domestic abuse by ensuring early intervention, safeguarding and multi-agency collaboration

·       Preventing and reducing serious violence - a multi-agency approach that focuses on early intervention, public awareness and targeted enforcement

·       Night-time economy - to support the NYP Nighttime Economy Strategy

·       Tackling hate crime and extremism - a multi-agency approach that prioritises prevention, intervention, and community resilience

·       Prevent groups and Protect and Prepare groups - work together with partners, communities and businesses to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism, and to identify risk and vulnerability in relation to a potential terrorist attack in North Yorkshire

·       Martyn’s law - mandates that public premises with a capacity greater than 200 are better prepared for terrorist attacks and ready to respond

 

CCTV & CCTV performance

 

The future of CCTV across North Yorkshire was subject to further strategic review and transformation.

 

In the period 01/04/2024 to 31/08/2025, the CCTV Control Room in Northallerton monitored total of 134 incidents, 10 arrests, undertaken 29 reviews of footage and provided 22 copies of evidence to potentially be utilised for court proceedings; 13 of which were related to ASB.

 

For the same period the Ryedale cameras in Action cluster dealt with 223 incidents, undertook 87 evidential reviews and produced 63 pieces of evidence.

 

Officers from North Yorkshire Police presented crime statistics from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025.

 

The report included data on:

 

·       Crimes per ward

·       Violence against women and girls

·       Retails crime

·       Anti-social behaviour (ASB)

·       Crime and ASB in Kirkbymoorside, Pickering and Filey.

 

North Yorkshire Police had seen a steady decrease in crime year on year and a decrease in a number of crime types.

 

Areas seeing an increase were Kirkbymoorside and Pickering around ASB and graffiti incidents in Malton and Norton.

 

Members questioned the actions taken against young people and the officers confirmed that the approach to dealing with young people has been the intent to try to not criminalise young people. Rather than arrest, charge and send to court, a load a whole raft of diversionary measures may be used such as one-to-one coaching, some form of work experience or any number of diversionary tactics. Many structures and mechanisms were predicated upon this approach. The intention with young people was not to punish but to break the cycle of offending and rehabilitate. However, more serious actions and sanctions were used when required.

 

Members with specific concerns were advised to contact the officers directly to discuss.

 

On behalf of the committee, the Chair thanked the officers for their reports.

 

Resolved

 

That the report be noted.