SaferPeterborough? Yes We Can.....

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose as community safety strategy manager introduces us to the revamped SaferPeterbough Partnership

TACKLING CRIME IN PARTNERSHIP



SaferPeterborough is a community safety partnership made up of several local organisations working together to reduce crime and lessen the fear of crime in our city, ensuring Peterborough continues to be a place where people feel safe to live, work, visit and invest.


It has a specific focus on tackling some key areas of concern they are:


• Serious acquisitive crime
• Anti-social behaviour
• Domestic abuse
• Violent crime (including alcohol-related crime and disorder)
• Sexual offences
• Road safety
• Hate crime
• Arson
• Substance misuse

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 The partners include Peterborough City Council, NHS Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, Cambridgeshire Police Authority and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation Trust. 

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose, as community safety strategy manager for the SaferPeterborough partnership, oversees projects and initiatives ranging from ensuring Safer Schools officers can resolve issues with young people, tackling anti-social behaviour to substance misuse. The projects extend to dealing with theft and burglary crimes through a new considered scheme that jointly manages and interacts with people who commit the most crime.


Chief Inspector Goose is also responsible for what is termed 'embedding justice' and introducing tighter licensing/ alcohol controls in the neighbourhoods. An essential part of the work is devoted to providing practical sympathetic support to victims, paying special attention to those who are vulnerable.  These will include people who have probably suffered long term domestic abuse and incidents of hate crime.


 “Quite simply I help deliver solutions to city crime issues by co-ordinating activity undertaken by the statutory organisations that make up the partnership and our voluntary sector colleagues. Together we believe we have truly made a difference to the quality of life in our city.


“For years each organisation had concentrated on its own individual issues. Everyone worked hard but crimes are still being committed, leading me to consider what difference we have truly made.  As a result, we now look at the causes of crime as well as dealing with the symptoms. This does not mean going soft on criminality. People have to take responsibility for their own actions and face the consequences, but unless something is done to deal with the problem it will just occur over and over again” he added.



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