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Community Safety in Wear ValleyWear Valley Crime Audit to StrategyContentsPageForewordForeword 1by the Wear and Tees Community Safety PartnershipCrime and Disorder Act 2Review of last Strategy 2Crime and disorder affect everyone and authority and other key agencies as well asWear Valley Crime 3-13consistently remain key concerns for the community is the only effective wayand Disorder Audit residents, visitors and businesses alike. forward.1998 - 2001Single steps are rarely enough to reduceAlready there is strong evidence thatCommunity Safety 14 - 20crime, criminality and the fear of crime.this partnership approach is deliveringStrategy 2002 - 2005Adopting a multi-agency partnership results. Crime Prevention 21approach between the district council,Advice and Useful county council, police, probation, healthTelephone Numbers1Crime and Disorder Act The Crime & Disorder Act wasintroduced in 1998. It placed a jointresponsibility on the Police and LocalAuthorities, along with a wide range oforganisations and the community, to worktogether to tackle crime and disorder. InWear Valley this partnership is called theWear & Tees Community SafetyPartnership.The Act requires the Partnership • to look at levels and trends of crimeand disorder in their area everythree years and produce a reportbased on the findings, this is theCrime and Disorder Audit• to consult on the findings, and• to develop a strategy to reduceWas the strategy ...

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Community Safety in Wear Valley

Contents

Foreword
Crime and Disorder Act
Review of last Strategy
Wear Valley Crime and Disorder Audit 1998 - 2001
Community Safety
Strategy 2002 - 2005
Crime Prevention Advice and Useful Telephone Numbers

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Foreword
by the Wear and Tees Community Safety Partnership

Crime and disorder affect everyone and
 authority and other key agencies as well as consistently remain key concerns for
 the community is the only effective way
residents, visitors and businesses alike.
 forward. c S r i i n m g e le ,    c s r t i e m p in s  al a it r y e     a r n ar d e  t l h y  e  e f n e o a u r  g o h f    c t r o i   m re e. du  ha tceen gnirev t il A sr lr i e htr c e e n
t   h sa e p ra t dy i   hs s     d r e t  ch e   s i iv p e r d o i ap n   o  a g p Adopting a multi-agency partnership
 results. approach between the district council, county council, police, probation, health

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Crime and Disorder Act The Crime & Disorder Act was introduced in 1998. It placed a joint responsibility on the Police and Local Authorities, along with a wide range of organisations and the community, to work together to tackle crime and disorder. In Wear Valley this partnership is called the Wear & Tees Community Safety Partnership.

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The Act requires the Partnership

to look at levels and trends of crime and disorder in their area every three years and produce a report based on the findings, this is the Crime and Disorder Audit

to consult on the findings, and

to develop a strategy to reduce crime and disorder.

Review of last strategy The first strategy, covering the period April 1999-2002, sought to reduce the following:

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Opportunist crime/travelling criminals

Youth crime

Anti-social behaviour

Substance misuse

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Was the strategy successful? A high proportion of the short and long term strategic objectives were achieved. Some of these are listed in the audit report under specific crime categories.

Total recorded crime and complaints of anti-social behaviour have fallen during the audit period. This has continued during 2002.

However, it is not all good news, the number of violent crimes has increased.

The majority of these are minor assaults and public order offences.

Wear Valley Crime and Disorder Audit 1998-2001 This is the second Audit Report produced for the Wear Valley District. It looks at how levels of crime and disorder have changed since 1998.

• The total amount of recorded crime in Wear Valley has fallen over the last three years by just over six percent. However, not all crime categories have shown a fall and crime rates are  • not spread evenly across the district • House burglary has fallen by 14% during the audit period

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Vehicle crime has fallen by 5% during the audit period Criminal damage increased by 7% and accounted for 22% of all recorded crime during 2000/01. Violent crime rose by 21% during the audit period and mirrors the national trend. It accounted for 17% of all recorded crime during 2000/01. The majority of violent crime offences relate to minor assault and public order offences. Almost 60% of all violent crime is related to late night public disorder in Bishop Auckland and Crook Town Centres

Durham Constabulary’s positive enforcement policy and the appointment of a police domestic violence coordinator has led to a 50% increase in the number of recorded domestic disturbances during the audit period

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The partnership see this as a positive Looking at the total amount of recorded step forward, but nevertheless, this is crime does not necessarily give us the true still very much a ‘hidden’ crime picture. The most common reason for not reporting is that incidents are seen as too t A h c a c t  i t d h e e n   t  hi a g n h d e   s E t  m p e r r o g p e o n rt c io y  n  d a a t t t a e   n s d h i o n w g trivial to warrant police attention.  However, due to an assault are males aged 16-  not all serious incidents are reported either. The British Crime Survey estimates that 25. Males make up 69.9% of those  actual crime is over four times higher than attending due to assaults. The  the recorded rate. majority of male patients (75.4%) were assaulted in a public place In order to get as full a picture as compared to 55.5% of female victims. possible of crime and disorder and its 21.2% of female patients were  impact on local people, we have used assaulted in the home information from different organisations including the Police, Local Authorities, Theft from a shop is estimated to cost  Health, the Youth Offending Service and businesses in Wear Valley  other members of the Partnership along u £ s 3 i ,020, t 0 h 0 e  0  H d o ur m in e g    1 O 9 ff 9 ic 9/ e 0   0 R .  e   s T e hi a s r   c i h s with findings from community consultation. ng Study 217 ‘The Economic and Social The Wear & Tees Divisional policing Costs of Crime’. A high proportion of  area almost matches the district council shoplifting is drug-related boundaries of Wear Valley and Teesdale. The total number of offences However,  s t e h c e ti   o a n r   e st a r   a p d o d l l i e ced by the  r We  o st committed by youths aged 10-17 A W u e c a k r l   a V n a d l   ley and Teesdal s e  t .  h   e T  b hi o s u   n h d a a s  y the f resident in the Wear Valley district  effect that the crime figures reported for was 84.8 offences per 1,000 Wear  Valley are slightly inflated as they population compared to 55.1 for the  include all the crimes committed in the county. 82% of the offenders were  West Auckland Section. Due to the rural male and 54% were aged 16-17  e olice beats years old a n n at d u   r e e le  o c f t   o s r o a m l  e w  o a f r   d th s  e d  a o r   e n a o , t     th mat p ch.  It is not possible therefore to provide ward based data that can be rated per 1000 population.

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Wear Valley in Context

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West Auckland 

Bishop  Auckland 

Wear Valley is one of seven district and
 The Department for Transport, Local
 Out of the 8,414 Local Authority wards
borough councils which form the County
 Government and Regions (DTLR) has
 in England the Government has ranked
of Durham.
 published an Index of Multiple Deprivation
 the top 10% of wards (ranked 1-841) as
IM whi nes measures of
The district extends from the centre of
( depr D iv ) ation i c n h     th c e o  f m ol b lo i wing domains:
t e h x e p   e o r v ie er n a c l i l n  I g n   d m e e x, a   s W u e ra ar b   le V   a d ll e e p y r   i h v a at s i   o 9 n   . o   f i O ts n

the county to the western boundary,
 21 wards o 1 ost
spanning over thirty miles. Almost half of
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Income
deprived w   a li r s d t s e   d n   at i i n o   n t a h ll e y     t as p  can 0  b % e    s m een
its 195 square miles fall within the North
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 Employm t  overleaf.
 , Pennines area of outstanding natural
 en 
beauty. The settlement pattern reflects

the high, rural nature of the area, which
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 Health and disability results in the vast majority of the
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 Housing
t p h o e p   ul d a i t s i t o ri n c   t, r   es w id h i i n c g h     i i n n   c t l h u e d   e e s a   s t t h er e  n  m pa a r r t k   e o t f

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Education, skills and training
towns of Bishop Auckland and Crook.  •
 Geographical access to services

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1500 2000 2500 National Ranking (1-8414) 5

1000

500

562

511

185 119

396

409

Willington East

Stanley

Henknowle

Coundon

St. Helen’s

Woodhouse Close

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3000

644

592

942

675

1319 1179

4000

2275

2648 2572

2008 1961 1951 1819

1745

3367

3500

Stanhope

Hunwick

Howden

St. John’s Chapel

Escomb

Wolsingham

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 Rank of Wear Valley Wards

Cockton Hill

Coundon Grange

Wheatbottom & Helmington Row

Willington West

Tow Law

Crook North

West Auckland

Bishop Auckland Town

Crook South

How does Wear Valley compare?

The Wear and Tees Community
Violence against the Person 2000/01
Safety Partnership is one of 376
CDRP
Family 6
Crime and Disorder Reduction
35
Partnerships in England and Wales. 31.2
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One way of looking at how Wear
Valley is performing is by comparing
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the rates of crime in the district to
other Crime and Disorder Reduction
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Partnerships in Wear Valley’s
15.1
‘family’
group. 15
11.1
These family groups have similar
social and economic situations as
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well as similar population sizes. 5 4.0

The aim of using family groups is
m arisons
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t b o e   tw m e a e k n e     si m mi e la a r n   i p n a g r f t u n l  er c s o hip p s.
miFa
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WearB
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toWDCPR Wear Valley is in family  group 6
Theft of a Motor Vehicle 2000/01
with 32 other partnerships across
CDRP
Family 6
England and Wales, including many
16 other partnerships from the North
East Region. (In the following
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13.7
rankings 1 is best, 33 is worst.)
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violent crime – ranked 27th
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vehicle crime – ranked 16th
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• house burglary – ranked 22nd
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6.4
 6 .2
Charts showing partnership
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average, highest, lowest and Wear
Valley
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2
1.4

0
CDRP
Best Family

Worst
Wear
Valley

6

40

35

30

25

Burglary Dwelling 2000/01
CDRP
Family 6

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17.9

15

10

5

7.3

37.3

17.1

0
CDRP
Best
Worst
Wear
Family
Valley

Theft from a Motor Vehicle 2000 / 01
CDRP
Family 6
18

16

14

12
10
8

6

4

2

9.7

0
CDRP
Family

4.7

Best

15.9

Worst

8.3

Wear
Valley

533

1998 - 1999

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Recorded House Burglary

533

1999 2000 -

458

2000 - 2001

Vehicle Crime

Nationally, thefts from vehicles fell by
6% between April 1998 and March 2001.
Similarly in the Wear Valley district this
crime type reduced by 5% during this
audit period, from 575 recorded thefts in
1998/99 to 545 in 2000/01.

In England and Wales, theft of a motor
vehicle has fallen by almost 9% in the last
3 years. In Wear Valley it has fallen substantially by 32%, from 568 crimes in
1998/99 to 387 in 2000/01.

Vehicle theft in the district was estimated to cost around £2.2 million in
1999/2000.

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Recorded Theft of Motor Vehicles

371

387

1998 - 1999
 1999 - 2000
 2000 - 2001
575
Recorded Theft from Motor Vehicles
545
489

1998 1999
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1999 - 2000

2000 - 2001

Commercial
Premises 4%

Car Park 9%

Location of Vehicle Crime in Wear Valley 1998 - 2001
Licenced
Agricultural
Premises 1%
 Premises 1%
I d trial
 Other 4%
n us

Premises 1%

Private
Premises 24%

Public Road 56%

What are we doing?
half A   s (   5 c 6 an %   ) b   e o   f s   e v e e n  h f i r c o le m    t c h ri e  m p e i   e  o c c h c a u rt, over
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We have extended CCTV in Bishop
public roads. This includes theft o r f s     a o n n d

kcaldnuA from vehicles, vehicle interference and
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We have funding for two extra
criminal damage. CCTV cameras in Crook

Nearly a quarter of offences occur on
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‘Secure Car Park’
status awarded
private premises (24%). One in ten
to a large commercial car park in
vehicle crimes occurs in car parks.
Bishop Auckland

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•We give Crime Prevention advice to owners of vulnerable vehicles

Recorded Criminal Damage

1229

1998 - 1999

1169

1999 - 2000

1320

2000 - 2001

At a local level the costs of criminal damage to public property over the audit period amounted to:

1. Police data in relation to offenders needs to be interpreted with caution as the informtion has been extracted from the police custody system. Some individuals who might be included in this data may not be prosecuted. those who have been prosecuted may not have been convicted.

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Costs in excess of £191,463 for building repair on council housing property due to vandalism and criminal damage £91,103 due to malicious damage to street lighting £34,556 due to vandalism of school property £33,330 due to malicious damage to illuminated signs £3,975 due to vandalism of Art Galleries, Libraries and Museums

Location of criminal Damage in Wear Valley 1998 - 2001

Car Park 1% Licenced Premises 2%

Education Premises 7%

Commercial Premises 11%

Public Road 26%

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Other 10%

Private Premises 43%

Violent Crime During a three month period in 2001,
70% of those attending Accident and
Emergency for assault injuries were aged
‘Violent crime’
encompasses a wide
 16-35. The age with the highest
range of offences which differ from each
 proportion was males aged 16-25.
other greatly, in terms of both type and
seriousness. It includes three broad
What are we doing?
groupings: violence against the person,
sexual offences and robbery. Offences
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Proactive policing of violent crime
range from the most serious offences of
has lead to consistently high
detection rates. In 2000/01 the
murder and rape through to common
assault and public order offences. Wear & Tees police division had a
detection rate of 92.4%
The majority of violent crime offences
in Wear Valley relate to minor assault and
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We have Pub Watch Schemes in
public order offences. Almost 60% of all
Bishop Auckland and Crook
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We have Licensees Association in
Auckland and Crook Town Centres.
Bishop Auckland and Crook In line with national crime trends,
c V o io m le p n a t r   e C d r   i to m   e 1   9 r 9 o 8 s / e 9   9 b .
y 21% in 2000/01
Dtic
omes Recorded Violent Crime
Violence
974
944
It is not easy to measure the level of
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domestic violence effectively, since many
incidents go unreported. However, the
British Crime Survey has estimated that a
quarter of all violent crime measured is
domestic violence.
1998 - 1999
 1999 - 2000
 2000 - 2001
The number of recorded domestic
There was a high proportion of
 disturbances in the Wear and Tees
emergency calls to the North East
 Division has increased by 50% over the
Ambulance Service in relation to assault
 last three years. This increase is a
or trauma between 9pm and 3am. Bishop
 positive move forward and reflects the
Auckland Town and Crook South had the
 Constabulary’s positive arrest policy. highest number of calls between these
times.

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Domestic Disturbance in the Wear and Tees Division

450

555

680

1998 - 1999
 1999 - 2000
 2000 - 2001

What are we doing?
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We have set up a Dales multi- agency task group to tackle
domestic violence
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We have been awarded £15,000
from the Primary Care Group to
protect victims by making their
homes more secure, to purchase
and monitor alarms and to install
CCTV and door security on the
Refuge in Bishop Auckland
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Durham Constabulary has a
positive enforcement policy in
respect of domestic violence. • a policW ppointed
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e have a Domestic Violence Coordinator
which has encouraged more
people to report incidents.