Agenda item

To receive any verbal updates from Partners and Community Groups present, including:

·         Police – Neighbourhood Teams

·         Fire & Rescue

To note the following written updates attached to the agenda:

·         Fire

·         CCG

·         Healthwatch

·         Wiltshire Council – Housing site development plan

Note: Speakers are reminded that they each have a 3 minutes slot, unless they have previously discussed alternative arrangements with the Community Area Manager.

The Board noted the written updates attached to the agenda and received the following verbal updates:

Police – Matt Holland and Andy Fee

Andy covered the West Wiltshire area, from the A30 northwards including Tisbury and Mere.

CPT Officer’s pro-active at dealing with high risk offenders and repeat offenders. On Monday, we will be setting up a new team in the west of Wiltshire, Detective sergeant and 6 police staff, tasked by Andy who would hold a weekly tasking meeting with the team. Listening to parishes and looking at all the crime reported to make effective use of the resources. Looking at dwelling burglary in particular.

Matt – Community Policing coordinator for Wilton and Wilton Rural, highlighted that there had started to be some reports of hare coursing. PCSO Clarke was planning another rural operation during August. In Salisbury, to tackle the supply of class A drugs, a major operation was deployed where 100 Officers were out making arrests. Criminals local and from further afield were taken in to custody.

Questions:

·       Zeals is close to Somerset, what are we going to do about having a better relationship with Avon & Somerset Constabulary in catching criminals once over the boundary. Answer: Criminals don’t respect borders and we will work with bordering forces to tackle cross border crime. We also have regular information sharing meetings with our neighbouring colleagues. All of our tri forces sections are with Avon and Somerset, so quite often we have officers coming in from other areas to assist on operations.

·       Could we decide to prioritise from a parish point of view, if we liaise with you on issues we have identified. Answer: Absolutely, we are shaping our priorities by information that comes in to us, this includes local knowledge coming from the Parish Councils. The Community Ccordinators are key and our PCSOs are valuable in liaising with the community.

·       Do you give updates on the community messaging? Answer: Yes we do give update, the new Community Messaging system gives some updates, Matt still produces weekly and daily crime updates.

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service – Jason Moncrieff

A written report was attached to the agenda.

Tragedy at Grenfel Towers had occurred, since then all high-rise buildings were being revisited by the Fire Safety team to check that they were all safe the majority of those were not in Wiltshire. It had been confirmed that Salisbury District Hospital did not have the same cladding which had caused an issue.

The Stay put Strategy, is safe to use but it was based on effective fire safety measures, and Grenfel Towers had several issues. Further information can be found on the website.

Co-responding  for Mere and Tisbury had only been one incident recroeded for the perior. One significant RTC, with nothing on the A303.

The false alarms reported covers a range of buildings, such as a smoke alarm in a private house, or even in Wilton House. We do assess this and if there were evidence that too many were being recorded from one property then we would go and speak to them to address this.

Some new trainees were expected to finish training shortly and will be able to cover at Wilton which will improve availability.

The Board noted the written updates from NHS Wiltshire and Healthwatch.