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‘Our Scottish Borders, a safe place to live, work and visit’

 Whilst recognising that the Scottish Borders is a relatively safe community, we believe that we must guard against complacency and keep our area a safe place to live, work and visit without people living in fear for their own or other people’s safety.  Promoting and living in a safe community is not the responsibility of any one organisation, everyone within the community can play a part. 

 

New Safer Communties Team

Helping to build safer communities in the Scottish Borders is the key role of a new Safer Communities Team and a new Council Warden service. 

The new Safer Communities Team brings together the existing Council’s Community Safety and Antisocial Behaviour Units and the Police’s Safer Communities Department, creating a combined unit that will be located at the Council’s Headquarters at Newtown St Boswells. The aim is to provide a co-ordinated response to Community Safety issues in the Scottish Borders.

The focus will be on working with local communities to assist in building safer, stronger communities.

 

Safer Communities is responsible for:

Antisocial behaviour Community Wardens Scheme Drugs and Alcohol Domestic Abuse

Home and road safety Racial Equality Youth Issues Grant Funding

 

The Community Safety Partnership

There is no single organisation who has sole responsibility for making our communities safer, many organisations can help and that’s why the Community Safety Partnership exists.  The Partnership is a body which brings together a range of organisations with an interest or responsibility for making the Scottish Borders the safest place to live, work and visit.  

By bringing everyone together we can ensure our services complement each other, make best use of the resources and ultimately deliver better results. The Partnership does not belong to any agency, although it is presently based from Scottish Borders Council headquarters.

 

The main organisations which are part of the Partnership and work together under this banner are:

Scottish Borders Council         Lothian & Borders Police         Lothian & Borders Fire and Rescue Service         Victim Support         Drugs & Alcohol Action Team

Youth Organisations          Borders Housing Network          Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration          Procurator Fiscals Service.

Safer Community Team: (Police and Scottish borders Council)   Address Safer Communties Team Scottish Borders Council Newtown St Boswells TD6 0SA   Tel:01835 825058 Fax: 01835 826769 Online   Antisocial Behaviour freephone: 0800 028 5711 Online   Neighbourhood Disputes Mediation Service Online

Chief Inspector Kenneth Simpson Safer communities Manager   Inspector Carol Wood Safer Communities Liaison Officer   Sgt. Stephen Ross Antisocial Behaviour and Youth   Kerr Scott Antisocial Behaviour Team Leader   Colin Bain Antisocial Behaviour Officer   James Purves Neighbourhood Disputes and Resolution Officer   Jan Pringle  Policy Officer   Andrea Beavon Domestic Abuse & Violence Against Women Co-ordinator   Paul Richardson Community Safety Officer   Fiona Lackenby Road Safety Officer   PC. Alistair MacLean Drugs Awareness Officer   PC. Ross Hall and PC Clarke Tait Crime Prevention Officers   PC. Justin Hurlford Community Projects Officer   Jackie Ormiston  Partnership Analyst   Gordon Smith Antisocial Behaviour Information and Statistics Officer