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The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 placed a legal duty on specific agencies (known as ‘responsible authorities’) to form Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs). In Sunderland, the CDRP was called the Community Safety Partnership. The responsible authorities include the Police, Local Authorities, Police Authorities, Fire Authorities, and Primary Care Trusts. They must work in partnership with a wide range of other organisations from the voluntary, community, statutory and business sectors to tackle crime, disorder and the misuse of drugs.
Drug Action Teams (DATs) were set up in 1995 following the publication of the White Paper Tackling Drugs Together. In 1998, the National Drug Strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain was published, which strongly emphasised the role of DATs in delivering national strategy targets at a local level.
In 2002, the Police Reform Act required CDRPs and DATs to work more closely together. In Sunderland, this resulted in the joining together of the Sunderland Community Safety Partnership with the Sunderland Drug Action Team to create the new Safer Sunderland Partnership (the ‘Partnership’).
Every three years, the Partnership must:
- Conduct an in-depth study of the levels and patterns of crime, disorder and drugs misuse in their local area – this is called an ‘audit’
- Carry out extensive public consultation, and
- Produce and deliver a 3-year crime, disorder and drugs
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last updated 25/10/05
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