Issue - meetings

The Community Safety Officer presented the exempted report to the Committee.

Information on the Community Safety and Enforcement Team’s structure (as of December 2024) was provided.

Services the Rangers provided were listed and included:

·       Patrols;

·       Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB);

·       Crime prevention;

·       Fly tipping;

·       Needles/Sharps removal; and,

·       Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) Enforcement.

Between 1^st January 2024 and 31^st December 2024, the total number of Ranger Reports was 7,601 (Housing 28%, Patrols 15%, ASB 15%, Environmental 6%, Fly tipping 6%, and Other 30%).

Examples of Customers’ comments included:

• “Just wished to pass on my thank you to your Enforcement officer. He helped us at an RTC earlier by controlling the traffic, this allowed me to help a student officer with the crash.  It is greatly appreciated. Few people would’ve volunteered to help in the way that he did- so thank you!”
• “I would like to thank everyone involved from the lady on the out of hours phone, the emergency electrician and the community rangers who attended the water leak at our Bungalow.”
• “The community rangers have just left.  I've got lots of safety stuff- alarms etc.  Thank you for sending them to me.  I do feel safer now.”
• “I will never know how to thank them as they have truly made a massive positive impact in my life!”

Feedback recited by officers included:

• “The Customer told me that she is so grateful for the Ranger’s regular contact, they often see her patrolling the street and I felt this had really been making a difference to them.”
• “They have been fitted window and door alarms as well as an alarm for handbag. They are so impressed with the service and ask me to pass on their thanks.”
• “Customer came in and thanked us for quick prompt action on help removing a vehicle blocking mobility access.”

Number of ASB acts included: 24 Community Protection Warnings; 9 Community Protection Notices; and 1 Premises Closure.

Existing (Shirebrook and Langwith Junction, Langwith and Whaley Thorns, Dog Control, and Nuisance Vehicle) and new as of March 2025 (Bolsover Town Centre and surrounding Areas) PSPOs were detailed.

The process of a particular case the Anti-Social Behaviour Team handled, ending in a Premises Closure, was reported in detail to the Committee.

The Committee discussed issues relating to electric scooters, vehicle speeding and the intricacies of the Bolsover PSPO (feedback from the first consultation had reshaped the designated area).

Moved by Councillor Carol Wood and seconded by Councillor Emma Stevenson

RESOLVED that: 1) Members review the supporting documents to refresh their             knowledge of current delivery; and,

2)    following briefings by the officers present, Members scrutinise current and planned delivery of the CSP, making recommendations where required, in accordance with Part 3.6(7) of the Constitution