In 1998 the Crime and Disorder Act was enacted which placed a legal obligation on the District Council, the Police and the County Council to work together to address crime and disorder issues throughout the District.

The Stroud Crime and Disorder Partnership was established in 1998, utilising existing resources with staff from the member organisations donating a few hours of their time to partnership development.

Since those early days the role of the partnership has expanded dramatically and the workforce has subsequently increased.

The first strategy was written and published in 1999 at the inception of the Act and the first three-year strategy superseded this strategy for the year 2002 to 2005. This has now been superseded by the strategy for the year 2008 to 2011. All three year strategies are available to download below:

PDF  Stroud Area Safer Stronger Communities Partnership Three Year Plan 2008-11 - 01/04/2008 : 259Kb

PDF  Crime and Disorder Partnership Strategy 2005 - 2008 - 27/04/2005 : 1809Kb

PDF  Crime and Disorder Partnership Strategy 2002 - 2005 - 18/08/2004 : 216Kb

This strategy has been written as a result of an audit of the agencies in the district or operating in the district and consulted upon with the public by written questionnaire to 3000 people across the district and to schools and older people and hard to hear groups.

Many people in partnership have contributed to the formulation of the new strategy and of course to all the work that has been carried out under the old Strategy.

End of Strategy Report 2002-2005

The document (available to download below) is a collation of work that has been undertaken by the Crime and Disorder Partnership over the last three years. The document does not cover all the work that all of the agencies are doing in the district under the banner of Crime and Disorder, mainly due to the fact that there is so much going on, on a day to day basis with the various agencies, that never comes to the notice of the reporting process. The document does however include a vast amount of work that has been going on within the district in order to reduce crime and the fear of crime, targeting those areas within the Strategy for the three year period April 2002 to March 2005.

PDF  End of Crime & Disorder Partnership Strategy Report 2002-2005 - 23/09/2005 : 189Kb

The Partnership

• Community Safety Panel
• Stroud Crime and Disorder Strategic Group
• Thematic tactical groups such as …
  • CCTV User Group Stroud
  • CCTV User Group Dursley
  • Substance Action Group
  • Racist Incident Group
  • Safer Estates
  • Valleys and Vale Neighbourhood Watch Association

Geographically based tactical groups…

Based on the boundaries of the three Neighbourhood Police Inspector Areas of -

• Stonehouse
• Stroud
• Dursley

PDF  Crime and Partnership Structure - 18/08/2003 : 542Kb

PDF  Community Safety Partnership 2004 Annual Report - 05/05/2004 : 263Kb