Policing and public safety

Community Safety

Strathclyde Police Force year summary video for 2006/07.

East Ayrshire Council recognises that a lack of safety can have an adverse effect on individuals, families, communities and businesses. Community Safety is the protection of everyone's right to live without fear for their own or other people's safety.

East Ayrshire Community Safety Partnership brings together agencies, organisations and communities to identify and prioritise what needs to be done, and to plan, co-ordinate and deliver action to meet these identified priorities. Our guiding principles, as set out in the East Ayrshire Community Plan: Improving Community Safety

• Reducing Crime
• Improving Safety in our Neighbourhoods and Homes
• Improving Public Safety

will direct how we do this and make sure that community safety is consistent, and at the forefront of the partners' agendas, and continues to impact on people's safety through the communty planning process.

The Scottish Executive has made funding available through the Community Safety Awards Programme for Community Safety Partnerships in Scotland.

In 2003 the Council commissioned a Community Safety Audit which you can read here