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Policing our Community- PACT

Dyffryn Clydach is an area of relatively low crime and most of what there is is nuisance crime rather than serious crimes such as burglaries or assaults. South Wales Police are currently aiming to improve the way that they police every area and on June 18th, 2008 are introducing PACT- Partnership and Communities together. The inaugural meeting will be at the Dyffryn Clydach Memorial Hall and will commence at 6.30pm. It is an interesting time to be involved with your community as your community council, Neighbourhood Watch group, Area Housing Officers and yourselves will be working together to make positive changes. As PACT meetings are established here in Dyffryn Clydach the website will contain full times and dates and also be posting achievements and minutes of all the meetings.

Claire Rogers would be pleased to receive any queries regarding PACTon 01639 640297 or email Claire.rogers@south-wales-police.pnn.police.uk or use www.ourbobby.com

Your Police Community Support Officers are presently Gareth Bishop 07805301569 and Lian Gittus 07805301541.

PCSO 54399 Gareth Bishop (07805 301 569)

and Pcso 54279 Lian Gittus (07805 301 541). There may be one or
two new changes within the next few months and if they affect us
details will be amended.

We can all play our part in keeping Dyffryn Clydach a great place to live.

So what is PACT?

PACT is the name given to the neighbourhood meetings that will form the structure through which Neighbourhood Policing will be delivered.

PACT for Partnerships and Communities Together; the two should be used together and consistently in all material.

PACT meetings will develop into a forum where the partnerships that serve a neighbourhood are tasked. They will take place on every neighbourhood once a month in order to deal with the issues that effect the residents. They will be attended by members of every section of that neighbourhood and managed by neighbourhood residents. Partners will be tasked by and responsible to the PACT meeting for working with the community members and groups to resolving the identified issues. Initially these meetings will be organised and managed by the police.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PACT?

PACT gives a structure that will deliver the main requirements for Neighbourhood Policing to be effective

PACT is about delivering community engagement;

PACT is about problem solving policing of low level localised policing and partnership issues

Pact is about gathering community intelligence;

PACT means giving everyone the chance to see members of their neighbourhood team in person at least once per month;

PACT is about communicating with local people and telling them what their neighbourhood team is doing for them;

How will PACT MEETINGS be structured?

PACT meetings should be publicised during the last two weeks of every month in key locations.

PACT meetings should take place during the first week of every month.

PACT panels should also take place immediately after the meeting and be open to those who have attended the meeting.

PACT panels should initially comprise of members of the public who have attended the meeting and partners who can take action to deal with the priorities.

PACT should be developed over time by the neighbourhood team and the public so that the panels is comprised only of members of the public who task the neighbourhood team on behalf of the meeting.

PACT enables people to task their local bobby and other partners in their own neighbourhoods.

PACT panels should identify up to three top partnership priorities at a community level every month;

Partnerships and Communities Together

Partnerships and Communities Together (PACT) aims at prioritising your local needs and getting communities to know their local named point of contact from South Wales Police Force. PACT meetings are not surgeries to discuss individual issues or concerns, but are held to provide community members with the opportunity to decide on the most important priorities that they want community partners to deal with.

Why do we need PACT?

Despite the good news that overall crime is falling it has been recognised that our fear of crime and how safe we feel isn't falling in the same way. Each ward within the South Wales Police area has a named point of contact. That person may be a Community Support Officer or a Police Officer who will be a member of a larger team that has been tasked with dealing with your community's priorities.

The named point of contact from South Wales Police usually chairs PACT meetings, alternatively a member of the local authority or community may run the meeting. Up to three priorities will be decided during the meeting for the police, partners and communities to progress. At the following PACT meeting the opportunity will be taken to inform you of developments made in relation to the identified priorities. Hopefully you will see that communities working in partnership with the police and other agencies do make a difference.

This process needs your voice to ensure we concentrate on the issues relevant to your area, so please make every effort to attend the meetings. If you don't say, we can't listen.

To find out more about PACT meetings and Neighbourhood Policing, please contact the relevant individual, listed on the number shown below, during office hours. You may also wish to click on the following websites to find out more information on what is happening in your area.

Claire Rogers is the Frontline Support Officer and can be contacted on 07805301545 alternatively 01639640232. Claire's email address is claire.rogers@south-wales.pnn.police.uk.