RYDE CREW

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• RYDE CREW

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What key partners were involved?

• Health
• Education
• Social Services
• Housing
• Employment
• Community Wardens

• Police
• Probation
• Highways
• Youth clubs
• Connexions
• Trading Standards

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What planning was involved?

• Anyone for an Environmental Visual Audit?
• Planning meetings were held
• The inputs were recorded on an event matrix.
• A final wash-up was undertaken afterwards

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• What were the aims and objectives?
• Education
• Enforcement
• Environment

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What publicity did the CREW week receive?

• God bless the press!
• Regular briefings were arranged by our media
  services officer.
• There were interviews with Meridian TV, Solent
  TV, IOW Radio, Radio Solent, County Press and the
  local Beacon newspaper.

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What were the outcomes?

• The first ever joint on sales alcohol test
  purchases between the police and Trading
  Standards in Hampshire and the IOW.
• 12 arrests were made for public order offences.
• Trading Standards officers and the police did a
  series of test purchases for tobacco and off
  sales alcohol.
• Connexions staff completed a prize survey of what
  young people in the area would like.

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This is the alcohol that would have been consumed
by the under-age customer who posed as the test
purchaser.
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More Partnership Activity

• Fire safety checks were carried out on various
  premises.
• Community Punishment Offenders kept the streets
  tidy and repaired damage caused by vandalism.
• 48 young persons employment checks undertaken
• Noise limiting technology fitted to two premises
  in the CREW area.
• Daily patrols by dog and community wardens.

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Continued

• Joint agency checks on pubs that had Public
  Entertainment Licences, taxis, SIA door staff
  and street traders.
• Extra refuse collections were arranged.
• Combined drugs initiative using Iontrac and a
  passive drug dog
• Automatic Number Plate Recognition operation

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How were the results of the CREW week fed back
to the community?

• There were a number of write ups and reports in
  the local media.
• An IOW Radio reporter conducted a fly on the
  wall style report.
• The young persons survey was published.

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What were the main problems?

• The early release of information
• Keeping tabs on multiple agencies and their
  operations.

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What would we do differently next time?

• Use the analyst to target resources
• Have a press embargo
• More environment focused initiatives

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• Thank you to all those
• agencies who dropped in and
• joined the
• Ryde Crew