Executive Summary
Background
The statutory requirement for Crime and Disorder Partnerships (CDRPs) to produce an annual JSIA came into effect in August 2007.
The purpose of a JSIA is to ensure a more intelligence based approach to business planning within CDRPs. The introduction of the JSIAs within North Yorkshire has been a catalyst for improving data sharing between partners enabling a meaningful, local analysis of the data has been possible.
The JSIA also incorporates analysis of local community concerns and so has a key emphasis on engagement with local neighbourhoods.
Due to the analysis undertaken, the JSIA clearly identifies current and future community safety issues. It provides information on what is driving the problem and helps to identify the appropriate response for tackling the issues. This ensures that interventions undertaken are based on evidence of effectiveness.
Key findings
The Local Area Agreement (LAA), a County wide North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership (NYSP) document, is made up of a series of targets across the priority themes agreed by the NYSP and Regional Government, one strand of which relates to community safety. Currently performance against NI 19, Rate of proven re-offending by young offenders aged 10-17 is failing to meet the county wide LAA target. Performance against NI 20 Assault with less serious injury and NI 45, Young offender's engagement in suitable education, employment or training, are currently 10% below the LAA target and the direction of travel is deteriorating. These are therefore all areas of concern.
Ryedale district is ranked fourth out of seven district in the country in relation to the rate of proven re-offending by young people (NI19), The district has the second lowest level of young offender's engagement in suitable education, employment or training work needs to be undertaken to identify why this is the case and best practice from other districts reviewed. NI 20 performance is the second best within the county when reviewing the rate of assaults with less serious injury per 1,000 population, the district is also one of three districts in the county to see a reduction in these offences when the current period (01/04/2009-30/10/2009) is compared to the same period of the previous year.
Although not part of the LAA the % of young people under the youth justice service in satisfactory accommodation is 96.4% in Ryedale, the second worst within the county. Despite this being a high percentage, there may still be merit in determining why Ryedale's performance is poorer when compared to the other CDRPs in the county.
Overall crime in the district has reduced 4% (80 offences) (01/10/2008-30/09/2009 compared to the same period of the previous year). All crime groups have seen a reduction in offences with the exception of violence and criminal damage which have both experienced increases and other crime which has seen no change.
Despite there being a reduction in domestic burglary offences, the fear of this crime type is noticeably higher than the fear in relation to other crime and disorder groups.
The majority of victims of crime are aged 40-49 years of age and males make up a higher proportion of victims than females.
The majority of offenders are aged 20-29 years of age.
In relation to road traffic collisions those killed or seriously injured has increase from 24 to 39 (01/01/2009-30/06/2009 compared to the same period of the previous year). Fatal casualties have increased from 1 to 3 and serous casualties have increased from 23 to 36. The main causation factor is ‘failed to look properly'.
There are 49 problematic drug users within the district.
There are 61 offenders under the Probation Service and 16 young people under the Youth Justice Service within the district.
Members of the public are most concerned about teenagers hanging around on the streets, litter or rubbish lying around the streets, cars driving too fast and drunk and rowdy behaviour when asked about anti social behaviour in their area.
The Analysis Unit within North Yorkshire Police continues to lack resilience, in charting all identified organised crime groups, however, it is hoped that the arrival of new i2 charting software will alleviate this problem.
Ryedale priorities
The recommended priorities for the CDRP are:
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Domestic burglary - due to the impact on local residents' fear of crime as well as the impact upon the victim. Many domestic burglaries also relate to holiday homes and so this could impact on local tourism and the economy
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Criminal damage, including anti social behaviour -due to the volume of offences and the economic impact. In relation to criminal damage offences have increased over the latest 12 month rolling period. In relation to ASB this is of public concern
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Violent crime, including domestic abuse - due to the volume and the economic impact. Serious violent crime has increased over the latest 12 month rolling period and the trends continue to be upwards. The full cost of serious violence in the district is over £3.6 million a year. Domestic abuse has been identified as one element of this due to its serious nature and the impact upon the victim, their family and the offender
- Alcohol related crime and disorder - the Place survey data highlights that 21.9% of local residents perceive alcohol related disorder to be an issue. Alcohol is also linked to areas such as criminal damage and ASB and more importantly to violent crime offences
The community consultation feedback highlights the main public concerns as:
- Transport - specifically cars travelling too fast through villages
- Anti Social Behaviour - specifically teenagers hanging around on the streets, rubbish and litter discarded on the streets and vandalism, graffiti or deliberate damage to property
- Fear of burglary
The Ryedale Partnership Plan will provide further information on how we will deliver against these priority areas over the coming year.
The 2010/11 Partnership Plan can be accessed at: insert a link
