Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership

Priorities and Action Plan 2024/25

Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership – developing our priorities in the context of the Surrey wide strategy.

Surrey wide Context

The primary aim of the Surrey Community Safety Agreement (CSA) is to set out how the responsible authorities will work together to identify and address shared priorities in relation to reducing crime and disorder.

It is a statutory document that is a requirement for two tier authorities such as Surrey under Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (as amended by the Police and Justice Act 2006).

It is also a requirement in such two-tier local authority areas, that there is a County Strategy Group in order to bring together all district, borough and relevant partners responsible for community safety activity.

The Health and Wellbeing Board performs this function.

The Community Safety vision for Surrey:

Protect our most vulnerable from exploitation
Protect our communities from harm
Empower communities to feel safe

Within those priorities are a number of key areas of focus.

The sections below link those with the strategies that underpin them where developed, the mechanism for delivering those strategies and the existing links from Community Safety Partnerships to those areas of work.

By mapping these out, the Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership (MVCSP) can assure itself that it is linked into those pan-Surrey work streams and therefore can concentrate on developing local priorities where it can add value.

Child Exploitation

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – Exploited and Missing Child Strategic Action Plan

Strategic Oversight – Surrey Safeguarding Children’s Board

Delivery Mechanism – Surrey Exploited and Missing Children Oversight Group

MVCSP link – Surrey Exploited and Missing Children Oversight Group. SE Risk Management Meetings

County lines & Serious Violence

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – Serious Youth Violence

Strategic Oversight – Serious Youth Violence Board

Delivery Mechanism – Serious Youth Violence Task and Finish Group

MVCSP link -SOC/JAG

Fraud

Strategic Oversight – Serious and Organised Crime Partnership

MVCSP link -SOC/JAG

Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Strategy and Delivery Action Plan

Strategic Oversight – Serious and Organised Crime Partnership

Delivery Mechanism – Surrey Antislavery Partnership

MVCSP link – SOC/JAG

Domestic Abuse (DA)

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – DA Strategy

Strategic Oversight – DA Executive and Management Group

Delivery Mechanism – Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)

MVCSP link – Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews and Sanctuary Scheme

Prevent & Channel

Strategic Oversight – Surrey Prevent Executive Group

Delivery Mechanism – Partners contribute to Channel Panels as appropriate

MVCSP link – Channel Panel

Anti-Social Behaviour

Surrey-Wide Strategy in Place – Community Harm Action Plan

Strategic Oversight – Community Harm Reduction Board

Delivery Mechanism – Community Harm and Risk Management Meetings (CHaRMM) and Joint Action Groups (JAGs)

MVCSP link – CHaRMM and JAG

Drug Related Harm

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – Drug and Alcohol Strategy

Strategic Oversight – Drug and Alcohol Partnership Board

Delivery Mechanism – Serious Youth Violence Task and Finish Group

MVCSP link – MVCSP and CHaRMM

Road Safety

Surrey-wide Strategy in Place – DriveSmart Strategy

Strategic Oversight – DriveSmart Board

Delivery Mechanism – Casualty Reduction Board

MVCSP link – Safety Advisory Group (SAG)

Timely, consistent and effective communication to communities of the work that is done across all partnership agencies

Delivery mechanisms for Surrey’s Community Safety priorities

The Surrey-wide governance structure and the district and borough CSPs contribution within it.

Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership Local Priorities 2024/2025

Domestic Abuse

Lead Agency / Group – Surrey Police and Mole Valley District Council

Actions –

To refer to Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), Housing, Adult and Children’s Services.
To support Sanctuary scheme

Outcomes – To reduce the risk to victims and children of domestic abuse.

Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG)

Lead Agency / Group – Surrey Police, Mole Valley District Council, Joint Action Group (JAG).

Actions –

To tackle Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) both from strangers and through domestic abuse.
Use Safer Streets and other data sources to review locations of concern.
Renewed engagement with pubs & businesses to raise awareness of safeguarding campaigns such as Ask Angela
Circulation of media campaigns to challenge public perception and encourage the challenging of poor behaviour
MVDC Safe Place initiative promoted to raise awareness of places for vulnerable people including victims of abuse

Outcomes – Women and girls reporting feeling safe in Police satisfaction surveys across town centres, residential areas, rural areas and at all times of day & night

Violent Crime among Youths and Younger Adult Males

Lead Agency / Group – Surrey Police and Mole Valley District Council

Actions –

Working with schools and youth groups around offending and knife crime awareness
Provision of Friday Night Projects offering a safe space for teens to hang out and play sports and other activities
Summer Holiday Activity Programme offering teens positive things to do while school is out for summer

Outcomes –

To increase sense of safety in neighbourhoods.
To reduce the occurrence of violence
To provide positive activities for teens and divert them from anti-social behaviour

Rural Crime

Lead Agency / Group – Surrey Police

Actions –

To support the Rural Crime Team’s initiatives to tackle issues including livestock worrying, theft and poaching
To develop local ownership of rural crime, engaging more directly with local communities

Outcomes – To increase sense of safety for rural communities as measured in public satisfaction surveys and regular engagement meetings

Envirocrime

Lead Agency / Group – Mole Valley District Council

Actions –

To investigate and enforce incidents of envirocrime including fly-tipping, littering and abandoned vehicles consistently and robustly
To map fly-tipping hot spots
To work with Surrey Environment Partnership on wider operations including recording of reports and vehicles on ECINS
To educate residents about offences such as Duty of Care and Littering from Vehicles

Outcomes –

Improvement in the environment.
Reduction in level of offences from prolific offenders

Anti-social behaviour

Lead Agency / Group – Community Harm and Risk Management Meeting (CHaRMM), Joint Action Group (JAG), SOC (Serious organised crime) JAG, ASB Case Review

Actions –

To tackle prolific perpetrators of ASB
To address impact of ASB on vulnerable victims and communities
To use a multi-agency approach using appropriate enforcement and intervention
To ensure victims know where and how to report ASB

Outcomes –

To reduce levels of ASB from prolific perpetrators
To reduce levels of ASB in most affected locations
To increase sense of safety for affected people and communities

Hate Crime

Lead Agency / Group – Police

Actions –

To prioritise investigation of hate crime.
To provide an enhanced victim service.
Joint communications with MVDC to educate residents about what hate crime is and why is occurs

Outcomes –

To reduce the number of hate crimes and hate incidents
To identify and engage with ‘seldom heard’ communities and break down barriers to reporting

Shoplifting

Lead Agency / Group – Police

Actions – Work with local groups including Dorking BID, Swan Centre Management, other shops/ trading associations to share information and undertake target hardening

Outcomes –

Reduce levels of retail theft.
Identify and prosecute persistent offenders.
Tackle repeat and vulnerable locations.
Roll out use of DISC system

S1R1C1