This in from the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, in their own words. Ed
Simon Hayes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, has awarded £1.3m in community safety grants to help reduce crime and increase community safety across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
The Home Office generated funding is to assist Community Safety partners in financing a variety of existing initiatives for a further year. More than 50 applications were received by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. Each application was assessed on the ability to deliver one or more of the four key priorities of the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan, and its previous record in meeting its objectives.
Four key priorities
These are:
- Improving frontline policing to deter criminals and keep communities safe;
- Placing victims and witnesses at the heart of policing and the wider criminal justice system
- Working together to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in communities;
- To reduce re-offending
More than 30 different projects submitted successful bids representing each of the Community Safety Partnerships across the two counties.
Supporting
The initiatives the funding will support include:
- Youth offending,
- Alcohol and substance abuse,
- Domestic violence,
- Night-time economy and
- Anti-social behaviour.
The Commissioner said: “I have been impressed with the number of crime prevention schemes being run across Hampshire and Isle of Wight to make our neighbourhoods safer. This funding allocation allows them to continue with this very commendable and essential work. I received many more bids and would have liked to have recognised more of those initiatives which are equally deserving of funding. However, the Government in creating this new Community Safety Fund; have reduced the amount by 25 percent previously paid under a more complex system of funding streams.”
