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Hertsmere Community Safety Partnership

Hertsmere Community Safety Partnership (CSP) is made up of local organisations, known as statutory responsible authorities who work together to make Hertsmere an even safer place to live, work and visit.

CSPs were set up under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 giving the responsible authorities a statutory duty to work together to implement strategies to reduce crime, disorder, anti-social behaviour, offending and drug and alcohol misuse.

Hertsmere CSP statutory responsible authorities are:

We also work closely with a number of non-statutory organisations including:

Read our useful contacts leaflet for the correct number to ring if you have an issue:

View our latest Hertsmere Community Safety Partnership Newsletter.

The Partnership aims 2023-2027 are:

  • To create safer environments by tackling crime and anti-social behaviour;
  • To protect and safeguard vulnerable people;
  • To build community confidence and wellbeing to increase feelings of safety

The Partnership priorities 2025-2026 are:

Priority 1 - Protect against violence, abuse and exploitation and support our most vulnerable residents

What we will do:

  • Work with partners to reduce knife crime and the use of offensive weapons with a focus on proactively engaging with young people at risk of offending, knife carrying or violence to divert them away.
  • Work with partners to ensure an effective multi-agency response to missing children, especially those missing from care or from black communities.
  • Take robust enforcement action against county lines and drug supply to reduce its harmful impact in Hertfordshire.
  • Raise awareness of the Hertsmere Cuckooing Process and support the review of the Constabulary’s Standard Operating Procedure.
  • Support young people through the Youth Multi-Agency Risk Reduction Group (MARRG) and make the appropriate referrals.
  • Raise awareness of cuckooing and the signs amongst professionals and in communities.
  • Deliver awareness sessions in schools, to professionals and in the community.
  • Deliver training on the National Referral Mechanism for partners.
  • Deliver Prevent training to professionals.
  • Raise awareness of the Safe and Well visits amongst professionals and increase the number of referrals for vulnerable residents.
  • Deliver a Crucial Crew event to primary schools across the borough.
  • Work with the NSPCC to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) amongst professionals and the community and develop a local campaign to help spot the signs, how to report and where to get support.

Priority 2 - Identify Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and crime trends and work with partners to reduce further incidents by dealing with perpetrators and applying the Hotspot policing model in hotpot areas

What we will do:

  • Use the Clear, Hold, Build approach to reduce serious and organised crime and help people reclaim their neighbourhoods from the impact of criminality, drug supply and exploitation.
  • Embed hotspot policing, with clearly defined hotspots for local policing teams and achieving greater activity in hotspots to reduce crime.
  • Monitor the Constabulary’s and council’s use of anti-social behaviour powers, including Community Protection Warnings and Notices.
  • Work with Neighbourhood Watch to keep local communities safe.
  • Work with communities most impacted by residential burglary to ensure prevention and awareness raising, with an understanding of different burglary motives, such as family gold and jewellery, or to facilitate the theft of a vehicle.
  • Local authorities to increase their use of prosecution powers for fly-tipping.
  • Support a partnership approach to preventing and tackling hate crime in Hertsmere, ensuring people have confidence to report.
  • Use Power BI to identify repeat callers and crime and ASB hotspot locations.
  • Embed the Hertfordshire Integrated Problem-Solving Scrutiny Panel in Hertsmere and review three cases per quarter.
  • Support national awareness days and weeks of actions, including ASB Awareness Week and National Hate Crime Awareness Week.
  • Deliver at least six JAG Engagement throughout the year in hotspot locations.
  • Deliver awareness training on drugs, alcohol and Naloxone.
  • Raise awareness of drug and alcohol services available in the community.
  • Work with CGL to support those with drug and alcohol dependencies who continuously come to the attention of partners
  • Work with local businesses to tackle retail crime, improve crime prevention and reporting of crime

Priority 3 - Prevent and disrupt Violence Against Women and Girls and Domestic Abuse

What we will do:

  • Work with partners and schools to deliver educational session on healthy relationships amongst young people.
  • Promote and encourage the use of the national ‘Ask for Angela’ and ‘Ask Clive’ schemes through Pub Watch.
  • Support National Campaigns including International Women’s Day, 16 Days of Action and Stalking Awareness Week.
  • Deliver training to internal staff, elected members and partners on subjects including Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment etc.
  • Raise awareness of the DA services available to support victims.
  • Work with MPAA to create a workshop for young people and deliver across secondary schools across the borough.
  • Identify the causes of the low positive outcome rates and low reporting of domestic abuse in the borough & review data with partners to agree actions to improve.
  • Promote the perpetrator programmes available and increase referrals for DA and stalking perpetrators into our Chrysalis programme.

If you would like to learn more you can request a copy of the Partnerships Plan by emailing community.safety@hertsmere.gov.uk.

The Annual Review is a document detailing the Hertsmere CSP's key successes during 2024 - 2025. If you would like to request a copy of the Annual Review 2024 - 2025, please email community.safety@hertsmere.gov.uk.

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