Winchester's Community Safety Team
The Community Safety Team is located within the City Council’s Active Communities Team. This team is part of a wider team that includes the Council's Neighbourhood Warden service.
Both teams offer support to a variety of external partners whose overall aim is to develop initiatives that have an impact on the overall reduction of crime and disorder. A key part of the team’s role is to offer advice to residents who are concerned about nuisance and crime issues, pulling together other agencies to tackle local concerns, organising community based events and delivering on the priority targets within the current action plan.
In addition the Neighbourhood Wardens each have a specialist role which enables them to deal with the following issues:
- Removing graffiti
- Fly tipping - investigation and removal
- Litter complaints
- Overgrown shrubbery
- Abandoned vehicles
- Untaxed vehicles
- Discarded needles and drugs litter
- Abandoned trolleys
- Neighbour nuisance
- Anti social behaviour
They also participate in the following community involvement activities:
- Working in partnership with both statutory and voluntary agencies
- Supporting residents meetings and forums
- Updating community notice boards
- Projects and education both in schools and the community
The Community Safety Team takes a strategic lead for delivering community safety priorities:
- consultee for crack house closure
- leads on the delivery of the Strategic Assessment
- supports the partnership in relation to resource allocation
- oversees the delivery of community safety related projects
- manages the strategic and practical delivery of ASB legislation
- provides support, intervention and enforcement for perpetrators and those consider themselves victims of ASB
- leads on community engagement activity
- provides performance updates to the public and partners
For further information about the team's role or to contact any member of the Community Safety team, please use the details provided below:
Tel: 01962 840 222
Email: communitysafety@winchester.gov.uk
The Neighbourhood Wardens can be contacted by telephone on 0800 389 6274 or by email neighbourhoodwardens@winchester.gov.uk
To learn more about Winchester’s Neighbourhood Warden Scheme please refer to the related content.