Community Safety

Dorset Community Safety Week is running from 3-7 June 2013, with events taking place across the county to highlight the work of the Community Safety Partnership.

Meet your local Safer Neighbourhood Team, find out about crime prevention, get advice on fire safety at home and much more, during a week of events around Dorset.

Community Safety is a term defined as:

"Delivering local solutions to local problems that have been identified by local people."

Community Safety is, as it says. It is about making safer communities, and in this instance it means safe with specific regard to crime and the fear of crime. Everyone should have the right to feel and be safe, whether at home or not, and it is the shared responsibility of the community as well as the public, private and voluntary organisations to ensure that this is possible.

Community Safety acknowledges that it is no one organisation's sole responsibility to deliver a reduction in crime and disorder and the fear of crime but something which needs to be tackled collectively and in partnership with others. Community Safety is a co-ordinated approach to tackling crime and disorder which takes into consideration what causes people to get involved in crime, as well as how victims of crime can be made less vulnerable.

• Dorset Community Safety Week 3-7 June 2013 - what's on

  Dorset Community Safety Week is running from 3-7 June 2013, with events taking place across the county to highlight the work of the Community Safety Partnership.

• Dorset Community Safety Partnership

  Community Safety Partnerships were formed in accordance with the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and subsequent legislation, and are committed to tackling not only crime and the fear of crime, but also the causes of crime.

• Community Safety Priorities

  In Dorset, the Community Safety Partnership have agreed five key priority areas which have been identified using information gained from our communities and through working with other agencies.

• Other Key Issues

  In addition to our five key priorities, there are other areas that may cause concern. These include: Hate crime and violent extremism and terrorism.