Coventry Community Safety Partnership

Crime in Coventry has been falling for several years and the City Council is playing a key role in this success.

How we are helping to make Coventry safer

The City Council is a member of the Coventry Community Safety Partnership, which co-ordinates action tackling crime, anti-social behaviour and substance misuse. Other members include West Midlands Police, the National Probation Service, Coventry Consortium of Social Landlords and West Midlands Fire Service.

The causes and effects of crime and substance misuse are numerous and addressing them needs co-ordination of many agencies that have an influence on people's lives. The partnership approach works because it allows both the causes and consequences of crime and substance misuse to be addressed.

Community Safety Team

Coventry City Council has a Community Safety Team to co-ordinate action taken to make the city a safer place.

The City Council's role ensures that:

our young people are educated about the risks of crime
our streets and open spaces are designed to make crime harder to commit
that people misusing drugs have access to treatment services to break free from addiction

In recent months we have:

continued to fund the Coventry and Warwickshire Community Safety Scheme which provides free home security measures to victims of property-related crime, hate crime, domestic violence and people aged over 70 years
helped protect hundreds more homes by providing 'self-help' gating grants. These grants contribute towards the cost of resident-run gating schemes which block alleyways and protect the rear of homes from crime and disorder;
contributed towards the high profile Operation Blue Ribbon and Blue Sky impact days by concentrating efforts into a single neighbourhood
helped address alcohol-related violence and nuisance by carrying out covert operations to test for under-age sales at on and off licences

More information about the work of the Community Safety Partnership is available at www.safercoventry.org.uk.

Contact Details

Community Safety Team
Room 214, 2nd Floor, Broadgate House
Broadgate
Coventry, CV1 1FS
Telephone: 024 7683 2131

Downloadable documents

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Community Safety Partnership annual report 2006/7 (1418 kb)

Coventry City Council