Community Safety Partnership Forum - Minute
North Lanarkshire Council · 6 March 2023
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COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP FORUM - 28 NOVEMBER 2022 1 Motherwell, 28 November 2022 at 10 am. A Meeting of the COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP FORUM PRESENT Councillors McBride, McLaren, McManus, Stevenson, and Wilson. CHAIR In the absence of the Convener and in terms of Standing Order No. 12 (c), Councillor McBride presided. IN ATTENDANCE Assistant Community Partnership Manager, and Administrative Officer, North Lanarkshire Council; Chief Superintendent and Superintendent, Police Scotland; Group Commander and Watch Commander, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. APOLOGIES Councillor Smith and the Community Partnership Manager, North Lanarkshire Council and the Area Commander, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST IN TERMS OF THE ETHICAL STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE ETC. (SCOTLAND) ACT 2000 1. No declarations were made. COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP FORUM - MINUTE 2. There was submitted the Minutes of the meetings of the Community Safety Partnership Forum held on 28 February and 24 October 2022. Decided: that the terms of the Minutes be approved. POLICE SCOTLAND - FINANCIAL CHALLENGES 3. Chief Superintendent Dolan referred to the Resource Spending Review (RSR) that had been published by the Scottish Government on 31 May 2022, which had set out the high-level parameters for resource spending up to 2026-27 and had indicated that the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) and the Police Service of Scotland should plan for a flat-cash settlement over the period of the RSR. Chief Superintendent Dolan intimated that the Chief Constable, Sir Iain Livingstone QPM and the Chair of the SPA, Martyn Evans, had expressed their concern in a written submission, to the Scottish Government’s Criminal Justice Committee, at the impact the RSR would have on service delivery, and that the implications for community policing, operational effectiveness, the ability to police major events and demonstrations fairly and safely, and to protect people from existing and emerging threats were significant.
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COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP FORUM - 28 NOVEMBER 2022 2 Chief Superintendent Dolan then outlined the impact the RSR would have on service delivery within North Lanarkshire, should it be implemented as outlined. Decided: that the position be noted. POLICE SCOTLAND - NORTH LANARKSHIRE PERFORMANCE REPORT 4. There was submitted a report by Police Scotland (1) outlining policing performance and activity in North Lanarkshire for the period April to September 2022 compared with the corresponding period from the previous year; (2) focusing on the priorities contained within the Local Policing Plan 2020-2023; (3) providing statistical information to assess the effectiveness of the Local Police Plan in terms of priorities, performance and community engagement, and (4) presenting some qualitive data to give an oversight of activities that had taken place across the authority area. Chief Superintendent Dolan then outlined the key points of note from each of the policing priorities. Decided: that the contents of the report be noted. SCOTTISH FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE - NORTH LANARKSHIRE PERFORMANCE REPORT 5. There was submitted a report by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) providing an overview of performance for the period July to September 2022, which provided statistical information on key priority areas compared with the corresponding period from the previous year, together with the three- year average. Group Commander Stewart then outlined the key points of note from each of the priority areas. Decided: that the contents of the report be noted. WATER SAFETY 6. There was submitted a report by the Head of Strategic Communication (1) advising that the Partnership Approach to Water Safety (PAWS) was a multi-agency approach to improving water safety that encompassed the knowledge and experience of individuals and organisations in our communities that best understood and could manage risks in and around water in the area; (2) informing that a Lanarkshire PAWS Group had been established with the aim to build upon existing good practices currently undertaken by partner agencies across North Lanarkshire and to allocate responsibilities in a clear framework agreeable to all agencies concerned and formalise them into agreed actions that were reported into the Community Planning Partnership; (3) indicating that the co-ordinated and proactive approach would assist in the delivery of emergency response to, and education in the prevention of water emergency incidents and was consistent with the targets of Scotland’s Drowning Prevention Strategy, and (4) outlining the partnership work to date in relation to the preparation of a draft PAWS document for North Lanarkshire, the finalised version of which would be presented to a future meeting of the Forum. Decided: to recognise the partnership work undertaken to date and agree to participate in further consultation and the work on the document as it progresses.
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COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP FORUM - 28 NOVEMBER 2022 3 ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE COMMUNITY SAFETY STRATEGY 2020/21 – 2021/22 7. There was submitted a report by the Head of Strategic Communication (1) explaining that effective community safety partnership arrangements had been in place for some time in North Lanarkshire and that these arrangements adopt a holistic, integrated approach to improving community safety, recognising the interconnectedness of the various aspects of community safety which align with the Plan for North Lanarkshire; (2) explaining that the Community Safety Strategy was the overarching strategy in respect of community safety issues and comprises the requirements set out in the Anti- Social Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004 which places a duty on local authorities and the relevant Chief Constable to publish a strategy setting out how they will tackle anti-social behaviour in their area, and (3) advising of the progress made on the strategic priorities and actions in the annual review of the Community Safety Strategy covering the period 2021-2022. Decided: (1) That the progress made to date in relation to the actions in the Community Safety Strategy for the period 2021-2022 be noted, and (2) That the annual review of the Community Safety Strategy 2021-2022 be approved.