Dear all,

The Fire Service provide free Home Safety Visits and will also fit smoke alarms free of charge if required.We particularly want to visit our vulnerable groups within the community,and some of your contacts may know who these groups and people are.This is essential as we recently had a fire death in our area, the person was known to social services but not to us.They did not have a smoke alarm fitted that could have given them an early warning of a fire and may have saved their life.
The contact details for this service are Freephone 0800 177 7069 Kind regards

The noise patrol operates every Friday/Saturday and  Saturday/Sunday (with the exception of the nearest weekend following Christmas) The times are 10pm -3am and the telephone number for the patrol is
 01273 293541.
 There is a further emergency out of hours number that is manned every night on 01273 292229 but this is only able to deal with widespread noise nuisances (e.g. Raves) and will only normally be
 activated following a police request. This number can also be used for out of hours noise complaints relating to malfunctioning intruder alarms and car alarms. In all other cases when noise nuisance occurs
 outside normal working hours other than the times the noise patrol operates the complaint should be referred to the Environmental protection team on 01273 294407 on the next working day.

The are now available from the downloads section,

 The noise patrol operates every Friday/Saturday and  Saturday/Sunday (with the exception of the nearest weekend following Christmas) The times are 10pm -3am and the telephone number for the patrol is
 01273 293541.
 There is a further emergency out of hours number that is manned every night on 01273 292229 but this is only able to deal with widespread noise nuisances (e.g. Raves) and will only normally be
 activated following a police request. This number can also be used for out of hours noise complaints relating to malfunctioning intruder alarms and car alarms. In all other cases when noise nuisance occurs
 outside normal working hours other than the times the noise patrol operates the complaint should be referred to the Environmental protection team on 01273 294407 on the next working day.

MINUTES OF THE CRIME PREVENTION FORUM HELD ON 25/02/2009.

ATTENDANCE. Chris El-Shabba, Maggie Smeeth, Cherry Channon, Linda Beanlands,(community safety) Jenny Knight, Dan Hartley, Tony Silsby, Andy Silsby, John Barry,(older peoples council) Alice Piper, Colin Tribe, PCSO Ali Azz aro,PCSO  Jacqui Cutter, PCSO Stuart Long, Brian Wylie,(Mears) Paul Allen, Bob Cristofoli, Doris Connaway, Lyn Bennett, Faith Matyszak, Cllr, Warren Morgan, Stephen Berry,(Probation Service) Betty Crabbe.
APOLOGIES.  Insp Bill Whitehead, PCSO Darren Parton, Sgt Paul Gossland, Cllr Gill Mitchell, Graham Page, Toya Regan.

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• MINUTES. Read and agreed.

• MATTERS ARISING. Stephen Berry from the probation Service said that 300 hours had already been worked in just 5 weeks, but is concerned they are getting work that BHCC should be doing which is not in the community payback remit. Praise from residents for all the hard work they are doing and what an improvement for the estate. Dan Hartley has a contact for paint if they can use it.

• COMMUNITY SAFETY. Linda Beanlands introduced Jenny Knight who is now the anti-social behaviour coordinator, Helen Dando dedicated service to East Brighton is to continue. The office is located in the city centre at New Road, and they have a whole range of services some on crime reduction, monitoring, planning special operations with the police, domestic violence and 13 other types of problems. They are willing to come to the Crime Prevention Forum as well as communicate with us. They have Victim Support in their offices as well as being linked to children and the young people’s trust. The ASB team have quite a few caseworkers and deal with all the work that comes up. Housing keeps a hold on cases that affect tenancy etc, Graham Page to attend these meetings. It was asked if we can build links for older persons and racial cases together, and Paul to try and take this up with housing. Residents are willing to help with integration, communication is the way forward. Debbie Corbridge-family pathfinders project,. Older People and Community Safety(20th March) to analyse crime from the age of 50, looking at offenders (mental health issues), and have been asked together information and produce a leaflet for distribution, and will have public meetings to lead to actions.

• POLICE REPORT.  There were no crime figures this month but in the 2 weeks up to half term there was no criminal damage. They hope to have their IT system up and running in the next 2 weeks so Swallow Court should be ready for them. Our Neighbourhood Office opened this on 5th February and launched book and reading buddy scheme to include numeracy. The author Peter James is to be patron of the reading buddy scheme. There has been a slow uptake on the use of Swallow Court but once the newsletter is published it should be better, Mears intend to have apprentices , work experience as well the normal repairs. Jacqui Cutter has won the High Sheriffs Award for Community Policing in 2008.Doris said 39-41 Coolham Drive have signage but this because they want to blend in with the neighbourhood. Paul Gorringe is the new Park Ranger. We can email police about anti social drinking on www,tellsussexpolice.com.

• ANY OTHER BUSINESS. Newsletter training starts on the 18/03/09 for 6 weeks at Robert Lodge. Andy said their consortium have had been success in their bid, WCPF need to be looking for funding. The council have finally post and roped the cricket pitch in East Brighton Park.

Meeting closed at 12.10pm
Date of next meeting which is the AGM is 29th April2009.

Sunday 15th March - Violence Against Women and Girls Bus Consultation, East of Brighton Pier – 9.00am – 4.00pm

If you are interested in how the government develops its national strategy on violence against women, please try to go to the seafront this weekend and get involved in the public consultation. There will be a big red bus parked all day at the east side of Brighton Pier with large writing saying “Have your say here, End Violence against Women”.  


Further details of the whole consultation process.

On Monday 9th March, the Home Office Secretary launched the largest ever, cross-government public consultation on violence against women and girls which will last until the 26th June 2009. The consultation document entitled “Together we Can End Violence Against Women and Girls” looks at how attitudes behind violence can be challenged and how to make women feel safer. For a copy go to http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-vaw/

 

Reaching out with LifeLines
10am to 2pm Friday 20th March at the Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street
All welcome!
LifeLines at Age Concern - empowering older people to improve
the health and well-being of all our city’s older people
Please come and join us to
*  find out what the LifeLines project at Age Concern is
*  meet our existing volunteers
*  celebrate the achievements of LifeLines so far
*  see how you can get involved with LifeLines in the future
There will be a variety of stalls and demonstrations to inform and entertain you, and free refreshments and
lunch will be provided.
For further information please contact the LifeLines team on 01273 765271 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
LifeLines is an innovative health and well-being   project being managed by Age Concern Brighton Hove and Portslade, funded by HM Treasury
and Brighton and Hove City Council, and working in partnership with the following organisations: