Not in My Neighbourhood Week 2008
Not in My Neighbourhood Week 2008 has been deemed a huge success This year local partners from every region across England and Wales ran activities to show case the work that is being done to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. These activities brought professionals and local communities together to say no to crime in our neighbourhoods.
Local activity
Hundreds of local agencies and police ran activities during this year's Not in My Neighbourhood Week. Here is just a flavour of what happened locally.
A Police information bus was parked in Barnsley town centre together with officers from the Town Centre Safer Neighbourhood Team and Neighbourhood Watch volunteers.
Manchester is launched its Respect Action Neighbourhoods Programme which will see an intensive activity across 6 priority neighbourhoods in Manchester, for a period of up to 10 weeks.
Manchester launched a "How to Avoid Becoming a Target for Crime" booklet on the set of Coronation Street supported by Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and William Roache MBE who plays Ken Barlow in the popular TV Soap Opera.
Ryedale cracked down on under-age drinking and Safer Neighbourhood surgeries were themed around the dangers of leaving property in cars parked in rural car parks and promoting drug prevention, youth services and knife crime awareness. Operation Leveret, a crack down on poaching, also took place during the week.
Wolverhampton organised a football coaching sessions for 50 children aged between 7 & 14.
Redcar and Cleveland planted 766 bulbs to mark the number of people accessing drug treatment last year.
Chelmsford organised a clean up day in a residential area where fencing was replaced, litter picked up and garages painted.
South Wales police launched their Citizen Focus PACT Engagement seminars as part the forces commitment to delivering Citizen Focused and Neighbourhood Policing to the highest customer service standards. The content of the two day seminars include community profiling, utilising wide appealing engagement tools, innovation, building the South Wales Police brand, making communication happen, and leadership.
Aims of Not in My Neighbourhood Week
The key objective of the week is to inform local people of the action that is being taken in their area to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and to make their communities safer with the aim of:
- increasing public confidence in their local crime reduction partnership and police,
- to encourage the public to play their part, and
- provide reassurance to residents.
The week provides an excellent opportunity for local partners, including CDRPs, local police and residents associations to demonstrate the work that is being done to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and substance misuse in their area. Weeks of action like Not in My Neighbourhood can bring public and professionals closer together to provide greater knowledge, greater empowerment, and greater reassurance.
National activity
To launch the week the Home Secretary visited Henbury, Bristol to reinforce the message that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated and Vernon Coaker, Minister for Policing visited the Rushcliffe area of Nottinghamshire to launch a local Positive Futures Programme.
The Tenants Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) also organised 6 community engagement events across England and Wales which saw approximately 300 people attend to meet with local crime fighting professionals and discuss the issues that matter most to them.
The Home Office also produced a Not in My Neighbourhood Week 2008 handbook which provided regions with key messages to tailor for local use and practical advice
In addition regions were supported by the COI News and PR who helped local agencies generate a huge amount of positive media coverage.
Evaluation
If you took part of the Not in my Neighbourhood Week 2008, we are really keen to hear your thoughts and views on your experience of taking part. To do so we would like to encourage you to complete a Stakeholder Evaluation form and submit to the Home Office by Friday 14th November 2008.
We are aiming to produce an evaluation of Not in My Neighbourhood week 2008 by the middle of December 2008.
Downloads and further information
Extra material for Not in My Neighbourhood is available here to download.
Download the Not in My Neighbourhood logo.
Download the template Not in My Neighbourhood posters in English and Welsh.
For more ideas for this year's week take a look at information on last year’s week can be found on the 2007 Not in My Neighbourhood events page .
Last update: Wednesday, October 22, 2008