Horsham District Community Safety Partnership

The police have noticed a large rise in the number of thefts of hay and straw bales on account of the fact that there is a national shortage this year and prices have risen steeply.

HM Government recently published a consultation document entitled Policing in the 21st Century - Reconnecting to Police and the Public. This paper is centred around six key themes with proposals for the following:

1. Electing policing and crime commissioners to hold police forces to account and strengthen the bond between the police and the public.
2. A powerful new National Crime Agency to lead the fight against organised crime and strengthen our border security.
3. Greater collaboration between police forces to increase public protection and save money.
4. Phasing out the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)
5. Cutting bureaucracy, removing restrictive health and safety procedures and freeing up police officers' time
6. A clear role for everyone, including members of the public, in cutting crime through beat meetings, neighbourhood watch schemes and voluntary groups.

The consultation runs until the 20 September and the results will form part of the new Police Reform and Social Responsibilty Bill.

The consultation paper can be accessed online via the Home Office website. 

A good deal of work has been taking place behind the scenes at Horsham District's Community Safety Team to enable the residents of Horsham District to report more incidents, issues and problems online.

Firstly, in February we built ourselves this website - not just another website, but a Joomla! website, (as used by the UN, Harvard, HP and NASA, to name but a few). You may rest assured that if organisations like these choose Joomla! as their tool of choice for their website projects that there are many compelling reasons why they do so. Suffice to say that Joomla! is multi award winning CMS software, and, given these challenging economic times, Joomla! is open-source software and completely free for anyone to use - and then:

• We set up the reporting of 'hate' incidents (in their many manifestations) in March 2010.
• We followed that with reporting anti-social behaviour in May 2010.
• We followed that with reporting 'environmental issues' in August 2010.

To mark our progress we now have a new logo and the whole website has suddenly gone green.

(If you are visiting our new website for the first time, please tell your friends about us - and ask them to tell their friends too)!

The work of the Horsham District Community Safety Partnership continues on your behalf.