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Safer Lambeth

Making Lambeth a safer place to live, work and visit is the role of the Safer Lambeth Partnership, which is made up of agencies including the council, the police and local Primary Care Trust (full list of partners below). Community Safety is the Lambeth Council-based team who work with other agencies, including the police, probation, NHS and youth organisations to make Lambeth a safer place to live work and visit. Click here to read our Safer Lambeth constitution which outlines our principles and ways of working.

The partnership, which was set up following the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, is responsible for delivering the Safer Lambeth Partnership Plan 2008-11, which outlines its priorities for tackling crime and anti-social behaviour.

The five key objectives are to:

Reduce serious violent crime
There will be a significant reduction of the number of victims of violent crime with attendant improvements in feelings of public confidence and reassurance.
Reduce the harm associated with drug and alcohol misuse
There will be significant reductions in the health and social harms associated with drugs and alcohol across the borough. There will be no visible drug dealing or drug use on our streets or in our housing estates and Brixton will have lost its reputation as a place where illegal drugs can be readily obtained.
Support young people
There will be improved cross service support for young people, with reduced youth offending and increased diversionary activities. Young people will develop positive behaviour and life opportunities. The involvement of young people in serious violent offending and gang-related activity will have been challenged and reduced. The overrepresentation of children being cared for by the council and black minority ethnic young people in the youth justice system will have been significantly reduced.
Support more resilient, cohesive communities
There will be improved service responses to promote community safety and raise public confidence and trust. There will be closer engagement with communities with measurable signs that groups within the borough are living and working more closely together within vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods. There will be closer work with communities to prevent violent extremism and reduce levels of hate crime.
Support safer and more respectful neighbourhoods
We will maintain reductions in levels of volume crime, such as burglary, business, vehicle and violent crime, and there will be a significant reduction in the number of victims of acquisitive crime with far less environmental and criminal damage. Greater respect for public space and other people will be demonstrated in significantly reduced levels of anti-social behaviour with tangible signs that residents are listened to and are reclaiming their neighbourhoods.

We also have a wide range of stakeholders, including registered social landlords and housing associations, businesses, voluntary organisations, community groups such as Tenants and Residents Associations, Safer Neighbourhood Panels, Neighbourhood Watch and special interest groups.