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News from your
Commissioner
Darryl Preston
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Welcome to my October newsletter
This month, I was really pleased to be able to announce significant funding to tackle anti-social behaviour in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - £1m from Safer Streets 5 will provide a range of interventions to prevent crime and keep our communities safe.
We also marked National Hate Crime Awareness Week with a personal insight from PC Jake Weldon on his work to increase awareness of disability crime.
Darryl
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£1m from the Home Office to fund a raft of improvement projects to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour
Safety training for day/night-time economy workers and taxi drivers to identify predatory behaviour, specialist posts to root out nuisance behaviour, state-of-the-art CCTV and free home security upgrades are just some of the interventions planned thanks to a successful bid to the Home Office’s Safer Streets 5 Fund.
The money which has been allocated from a national pot worth over £42m will be invested in a host of projects benefitting Cambridge City, Peterborough, Huntingdon, St Neots and Wisbech over an 18-month period starting in October 2023.
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Taking a partnership approach to drug crime and County Lines
Drug use and dealing brings misery to our communities and the public rightly expect strong action to deal with offenders.
Following on from the publication of the Government’s ‘From Harm to Hope’ 10-year drug strategy in 2021, I have taken on a leadership role locally to bring partners together to deliver improvement in prevention, treatment and recovery and ensure we are doing everything possible to protect and save lives.
Read my recent blog to find out how I am approaching this.
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Child-to-parent violence intervention programme cuts police call outs by 94%
An intervention programme supporting young people and parents impacted by child-to-parent violence and abuse has reduced the number of police call outs to participating families by 94 per cent in Cambridgeshire.
The Respect Young People’s Programme, funded by my office and delivered by YCMA Trinity, sees practitioners working with the whole family to develop respectful ways of managing conflict, difficulty and intimacy and is delivering impressive results with substantial savings to the criminal justice system.
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Major safety scheme to crackdown on ASB delivers on investment
A six-figure safety project designed to reduce crime and make people feel safer is already delivering results.
The Safer Streets 4 project has brought £634,285 of national funding to Peterborough and Wisbech in the shape of 14 projects between July 2022 and September 2023. Already, the investment has driven down ASB in the areas where improvements have been concentrated and enforcement officers are now better equipped to bring ASB perpetrators to justice.
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Meet the officer determined to increase awareness of disability hate crime
To mark Hate Crime Awareness Week, PC Jake Weldon has spoken of his personal experience growing up as a carer for his disabled brother and his ‘mission’ to increase reporting of disability hate crime.
The neighbourhood officer, based in Cambridge city, has a specialist role on behalf of the force helping to educate the community about hate crimes through school visits and other community events. He is also keen to raise awareness of the Pegasus scheme – a free service enabling people to pre-register their information so it can be accessed quickly if they say the word ‘Pegasus’ to a police call operator.
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