Community Safety Strategic Assessment

As well as taking on board the views of Wirral communities, the Community Safety Partnerships Strategy is also informed by an in-depth analysis of Wirral's crime and disorder trends.

The Community Safety Team carries out an annual Strategic Assessment of crime and disorder to see when and where issues occur. It also looks at the success of crime reduction activity. It monitors the reduction in crime and compares it to the targets set by the previous Strategy as well as crime rates in other areas of Merseyside and the North West.

The analysis includes reports to the Police, Fire Service, Community Patrol and Anti Social Behaviour Team as well as domestic violence and hate crime.

The different chapters of the Strategic Assessment can be viewed via the links below:

• Foreword, 2009 Recommendations review, 2010 Recommendations and Introduction
• Performance and regional comparisons
• Anti-social behaviour
• Criminal damage
• Violence and alcohol-related assault
• Alcohol harm reduction and Wirral's 'local alcohol profile'
• Domestic abuse
• Drug harm reduction and NI40 performance update June 2010
• Hate crime
• Serious acquisitive crime
• Registered Social Landlord Tenant Offenders
• Appendix 1 - Stronger Communities Initiative
• Appendix 2 - Probation Targets, Caseload Profiles and Crimenogenic Factors
• Appendix 3 - Wirral Community Safety Partnership Strategy Targets 
• Appendix 4 - The Economic Downturn and Recorded Crime
• Appendix 5 - Ethnicity in Wirral
• Appendix 6 - Cost of Crime
• Appendix 7 - Wirral Citizens’ Perceptions of Crime

The following four chapters of the Strategic Assessment have not been published for data security reasons.

• NI 15 Most Serious Violence
• NI 20 Assault With Less Serious Injury
• Gun Crime NI 29
• Knife Crime NI 28