Community Safety Partnerships work on the principle that no single agency can address all drivers of crime and antisocial behaviour, and that effective partnership working is vital to ensuring safer communities. We are the lead authority for the South Cambridgeshire Community Safety Partnership (CSP) and we work with:
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
- the Integrated Care System (Health)
- the Probation Service
Partners meet on a monthly basis to agree action on local priorities and to share information on individuals engaging in anti-social behaviour and/or committing crime in the District to ensure action.
Please read our neighbourhood issues page for more information related to anti-social behaviour.
You can find out about levels of crime in the District by viewing the county Crime and Community Safety Atlas or on the police website.
If you need more details relating to policing where you live visit the Find My Police Team pages.
Safer Communities Fund
The CSP can also apply for the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Safer Communities Fund to provide additional tools for work such as:
- funding include local initiatives to reduce anti-social behaviour
- days of action within specific community locations
- tackling fly tipping
This fund is open to bids of up to £5,000, however, the awarded funding must be used within 12 weeks. To apply, please email communitysafety@scambs.gov.uk.
Community safety plans
For more information please read our Community Safety Plan 2024 to 2025 [PDF, 0.2MB].
The 2023/2024 CSP Strategic Assessment [PDF, 3MB] produced by Cambridgeshire County Council was used to identify strategic topics and themes for the current action plan.
Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR)
A Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) is a locally conducted multi-agency review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by:
- a person to whom he or she was related, or with whom he or she was or had been in an intimate personal relationship.
- a member of the same household as himself or herself.
This also includes death by suicide of a victim of domestic abuse.
DHRs are a statutory requirement and were introduced by section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (DVCA 2004) and came into force on 13 April 2011. Their purpose is not to reinvestigate the death or apportion blame, but to:
- establish what lessons are to be learned from the domestic homicide, regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims
- identify clearly what those lessons are, both within and between agencies, how they will be acted on, within what timescales, and what is expected to change as a result
- apply these lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures as appropriate
- prevent domestic violence homicide and improve service responses for all domestic violence victims and their children, through improved intra and inter-agency working.
The DHR will usually draw upon information obtained from:
- interviewing family members
- interviewing significant people who may have known the victim
- obtaining information from participating agencies, either by way of an Individual Management Review (IMR), or by other means such as a chronology of events
More information and guidance can be found on the Home Office DHR webpage.