Policing and public safety

Community Safety Partnership

Community Safety Forum (Consultation Group)

The Forum has been in existence since 1995. Originally the Kilmarnock and Loudoun Accident Prevention Committee, it was renamed the Community Safety Forum in 1998. The Forum is a group with strong community representation and a clear role in:

informing and influencing local policies
disseminating good practice
supporting community safety actions within Community Planning; and
identifying gaps in strategies where community safety should play a major part.

The Forum, chaired by Councillor Jim O'Neill, meets quarterly and in an invaluable community link for the Improving Community Safety Implementation Group in particular and Community Planning in general.

Forum Members:

(a) Nine members of EAC (including Chair and Vice Chair of Community Services Committee)
(b) One community representative from each of the local area committees
(c) One representative from AAHB
(d) One representative from each of the two local Health Trusts
(e) One representative from Strathclyde Fire Brigade
(f) Two representatives from the East Ayrshire Sub-Division (one from the north area and one from the south area) of the Ayrshire Division of Strathclyde Police
(g) One representative from Ayrshire and Arran Tourist Industry Forum
(h) One representative from Ayrshire Enterprise
(i) One representative from Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce
(j) One representative from Kilmarnock Town Centre Management Initiative
(k) One representative form the North and one from the South Disability Forum
(l) One representative from the North Area and one representative from the South Area Crime Prevention Panels
(m) One representative from the Fellowship of Churches
(n) One representative from the Council of Voluntary Organisations
(o) Two youth representatives
(p) Two representatives of elderly forums
(q) Representatives of ethnic communities
(r) One representative of each Safer Group in East Ayrshire.
(s) One representative from Women’s Aid
(t) One representative from Victim Support.
(u) One representative from the Royal Society of the Prevention of Accidents
(v) from East Ayrshire Multi-agency Domestic Abuse Forum