Safer Slough Partnership

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What are we doing

The Safer Slough Partnership (SSP) is Slough's community safety partnership, which seeks to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and fear of crime. The SSP is accountable for compliance with the statutory responsibilities set out in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

The SSP works in partnership with other local agencies to address local issues including antisocial behaviour, drug or alcohol misuse, and re-offending.

Who we are

SSP partners.

SSP statutory duties and priorities

CSP duties include:

  • forming a strategic group that devises and implements strategies to tackle crime and disorder
  • engaging with and gathering the views of the public and have one public meeting per year
  • conducting an annual strategic assessment to inform/identify local priorities
  • setting out a partnership plan and monitor progress
  • ensuring there is effective information sharing across the partnership
  • commissioning Domestic Violence Homicide reviews.

Safer Slough Partnership priorities

In 2022 there was a review of local challenges taking into account

  • emerging legislation
  • Thames Valley Police, and
  • Office for Police Crime Commissioner priorities.

The SSP now has a focus on four key crime challenges.

Substance Misuse

This includes illegal drugs and alcohol is associated with violence, acquisitive crime, and anti-social behaviour.

The local approach is in partnership to:

  • break the drug supply chains
  • ensure those who need treatment receive appropriate services to recovery
  • achieve a shift in the demand for recreational substance through education.

Serious violence

Violence and associated risks are a cross-cutting theme and one of the core priorities is to safeguard those at risk of the most harm.

This includes addressing crimes such as:

  • knife crime
  • serious youth violence
  • violence against women and girls (VAWG) and
  • sexual abuse.

The local approach is to reduce incidents of violence in Slough by having a comprehensive approach to preventing violence, through education, intervention, and where necessary enforcement.

Anti-social behaviour

Anti-social behaviour takes many forms, varying from behaviour that is targeted at individuals, causing significant harm, to public nuisance where behaviour causes public nuisance, alarm or distress, and environmental harm in public spaces, including noise and fly tipping.

All such behaviour is unacceptable, causes disquiet, and may be costly to deal with.

The local focus across the partnership, is to

  • prevent ASB occurring in the first place
  • deal robustly with those who perpetrate ASB, and
  • ensure that those who are affected by ASB have a voice, are listened to, and receive an appropriate response.

Domestic Abuse

Domestic abuse affects all communities, having a devastating effect on the health and wellbeing of victims and their families, friends, and wider society.

We recognise that this is everyone’s business; anyone can be at risk, whatever their social background, age, gender, religion, sexuality, or ethnicity.  

The partnership aims to 

  • deliver cultural change, making domestic abuse totally unacceptable
  • work to ensure that early signs of abuse are recognised and acted upon
  • ensure that survivors and their children receive all the support that they need
  • ensure perpetrators are held to account.