Welcome to our website. This site includes information on the Wyre Forest Community Safety Partnership, our priorities and initiatives and helpful advice on how to reduce crime and disorder.
Tackling the district’s crime and disorder problems is a joint job for everyone and not just the police. More effective and sustainable solutions are often to be found through agencies working together.
The catalyst for partnership working was the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which placed a statutory responsibility on Wyre Forest District Council, Worcestershire County Council and West Mercia Police to form a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP). More recently the Police Reform Act 2002 extended this statutory membership to include Primary Care Trusts, the Fire Service and the Police Authority.
In Wyre Forest we call our CDRP the Wyre Forest Community Safety Partnership (WFCSP), which in addition to the above membership brings together representatives from a range of public, private, voluntary and community sector bodies.
All partners share one vision – ‘Wyre Forest – an even safer place to live, work, visit or do business in.’
In order to meet the requirements of the Crime and Disorder Act, every three years the Partnership is obliged to: