Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Service Delivery, (copy enclosed).

The Committee received the report of the Director of Service Delivery reporting the progress of activities undertaken by the Maldon Community Safety Partnership (CSP) since the last meeting held on 29 February 2024.

The most recent Essex Police performance summary (to September 2024) was attached as Appendix 1 to the report.

The Community Safety Manager (CSM) took Members through the report and provided additional information and further detail by way of a presentation.

A lengthy discussion ensued during which a number of points were raised and in response the following information was provided:

·        Among the young people participating in the "make space for girls" project, netball emerged as the most favored option. It was also intended to encourage the young people participating to share their results in the form of a presentation to their parents and teachers.

·        The 33 prisoners released across Essex were being managed by Probation and Integrated Offender Management Team and where appropriate some had been tagged. The CSM confirmed that he wasn’t aware if any had reoffended since being released and would find out and feed this back to the Committee at its next meeting in February 2025.

The Chairperson moved the recommendation as set out in the report and this was duly seconded.

RESOLVED that the current progress of the initiatives undertaken by the Community Safety Partnership be noted.

Please note the following information provided post Committee:

The Essex response to early prison releases is called Operation Drakeful. Officers from the community safety partnership attend these strategic meetings. The first tranche of early releases in Essex was in September where fifty-five prisoners were released after completing 40% of their sentence. This has improved capacity within the prison estates. The second tranche will be in October, and it is estimated that this will be a further thirty-six releases in Essex. All early releases are being robustly managed and tracked for reoffending. In the event of breaches of release conditions, prisoners will be recalled to prison. Essex Probation has been invited to attend the Spring 2025 meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to provide an update to elected members.