Welcome to the Community Safety and Partnership web page. This site contains an overview of the work that we do and some useful information regarding your safety. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service is committed to protecting our communities and reducing deaths and injuries from fires and other emergency situations.
Reducing such injuries is more than providing an efficient emergency response service. It is about providing education to prevent the type of behavior that leads to the situation in the first instance. The Community Safety and Partnership department provides this education via a number of initiatives. From FREE Home Fire Safety checks to youth engagement and Road Safety campaigns.
The department are also statutory partners of the local Authority Community Safety Partnership (CSP) and work with our partners to engage with Local Authorities, Police, Probation services and the Local Heath Board to effectively target those communities most at risk from fire and road traffic collisions.
More information regarding the services we offer and the initiatives we facilitate can be found by following the specific links on this site.
Group Manager Rob Morris - Head of Community Safety and Partnerships
Responsible Authorities have a statutory duty to work with other local agencies and organisations to develop and implement strategies to tackle crime and disorder including anti-social and other behaviour adversely affecting the local environment. In Wales, these statutory partnerships are known as Community Safety Partnerships.
The legislation that enables this work is the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, amended by the Police and Justice Act 2006. This promotes the practice of partnership working to reduce crime and disorder and places a statutory duty on police and local authorities to develop and implement a strategy to tackle problems in their area. In doing so, the responsible authorities are required to work in partnership with a range of other local public, private, community and voluntary groups and with the community itself.
Section 5 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, amended by the Police and Justice Act 2006 sets out whom the responsible authorities are:
Working with these other partners, the police and local authority will have to adhere to the following cycle of events, each cycle lasting three years:
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has a representatives for each of its ten Unitary Authority Community Safety Partnerships. They are as follows: -
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