Safer Liskeard facilitates and supports a co-ordinated multi-agency approach to community safety issues to improve feelings of safety and public reassurance, reduce the risk of harm to the community and protect vulnerable groups.  Safer Liskeard involves community members in the work of the partnership and encourages social inclusion and community participation through being part of the problem solving process and having a sense of pride in Liskeard.

Photo: Liskeard in Bloom

Our aim is that Cornwall is a place where the people who live, work and visit here feel safe and are safe, through partners working together to tackle crime, alcohol, drugs, anti-social behaviour and their impacts. The Safer Towns Programme provides a targeted multi-agency response in ten towns across Cornwall, directly involving local organisations and community groups in examining local problems and what everyone can do to improve them.

Our Priorities

Based on the evidence presented in the Liskeard Town Profile and feedback from the Residents Survey, Safer Liskeard has identified the following community safety priorities for the town.

1. Drug related harm and recovery (including drug networks/ county lines).
2. Domestic abuse and sexual violence and reducing violence against women and girls.
3. Pride in Liskeard and improved feelings of safety
4. Community engagement and building resilience
5. Youth engagement

These community safety priorities are addressed through the live delivery plan.  Progress is measured through achievement of quarterly and annual milestones over the lifetime of the plan and key deliverables/outcomes are reported to the Safer Cornwall Partnership.

Safer Liskeard partners include;

Devon and Cornwall Police
Cornwall Council
Liskeard Town Council
Liskeard Town Forum
Housing providers
Liskeard Secondary School and Community College
Addaction
Community Mental Health Team
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
and the Voluntary and Community Sector

What we have achieved:

• Safer Liskeard is working closely to address anti-social behaviour (ASB) issues and conducting multi-agency patrols of certain areas alongside our monthly ASB target group meetings.
• Young People Cornwall have provided some assertive outreach with young people in the town.
• We have strongly supported Liskeard Town Council and the live monitored CCTV system which is proving vital to public safety and supporting criminal investigations.  We are continuing to work with the Town Council and police to ensure the effectiveness of the CCTV resource.
• We have fitted additional Public Space Protection Order signs along Fore Street and in Castle Park. This legislation provides Police and the Council with powers to prohibit alcohol consumption in specific areas of the town. The signs were fitted by offenders on Community Payback with Probation.
• We have also held monthly multi-agency pop-up shops in the center of Liskeard on the last Friday of every month.  We have also carried out several multi agency walkabouts to increase visibility and reduce the fear of crime.
• We held a multi agency environmental visual audit in a specific part of Liskeard and have more of these planned.
• We also continue to promote key messages about reporting and the official reporting routes not social media.

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