Home Office Good Practice Seminars
Violent Crime Seminar
Keynote presentations - 15 September 2004
Overview of the Government's Violent Crime Strategy Jackie Westlake, Home Office
Jackie Westlake presented this overview, giving the context of violent crime and the levels of various types of violent crime. She highlighted the key strategic priorities and the way they will be delivered.
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Presentations and discussions on alcohol and the night time economy
Safer Swansea Partnership: Tackling alcohol and the night time economy in partnership with health
Phil Davies, South Wales Police, and Patrick Rees, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust
Phil Davies and Patrick Rees explained the problem of city centre violence in Swansea, showing video clips of the sort of behaviour encountered through binge drinking.
They highlighted the need for intervention to resolve high volume calls to police and ambulance staff together with the violence towards ambulance and A&E staff and presented the plan agreed through partnership with all the agencies involved. A triage centre has been set up close to the source of problems with paramedics and nurses to intervene early with clinical cases, preventing excessive ambulance journeys and streamlining workload for A&E. Police attendance assures staff safety and a multi-agency command room allows for monitoring of incidents from all perspectives and helps with police resourcing.
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Working in partnership with the Licensing Trade
Jan Brown and Steve Greenacre, Manchester City Centre Safe
Jan Brown and Steve Greenacre explained the challenges of the night time economy in Manchester and the reasons for the City Centre Safe initiative. These include and increase in licensed premises, competition for limited resources and a limited infrastructure to get people home. They highlighted the principles of the initiative and how all agencies worked together, detailing some of the strategies that make up the initiative. These include an alcohol bye-law, Safe Havens scheme, late night transport solutions and Taxi Safe scheme, social marketing and managing licensed premises.
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Keynote presentations 15 September 2004 (afternoon)
Keynote presentations 16 September 2004 (morning)
Keynote presentations 16 September 2004 (afternoon)
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