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Report of the Chair of the Safe City Partnership providing the Committee with an update on community safety in Southampton and the Safe City Partnership, attached.

The Committee considered the report of the Chair of the Safe City Partnership providing an update on community safety in Southampton and the Safe City partnership and information from the recently completed Community Safety Strategic Needs Assessment. 

Superintendent Heydari was present and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED:

(i)  That the Chair of the Safe City Partnership contacts the universities in Southampton to encourage them to re-inforce the message to their students with regards to expected standards of behaviour;

(ii)  That a breakdown of recorded sexual offences is circulated to the Committee to enable the Committee to factor in the rise in recorded non-recent offences; and

(iii)  That reflecting the ongoing problem with street begging in Southampton and feedback received by Councillors, Council officers:

a)  Investigate if the message being delivered that there is no need for anybody to be sleeping on the streets in Southampton is accurate; and

b)  Increase efforts to publicise the diverted giving scheme to raise awareness of the alternatives to giving to street beggars.