Blaby District Police Volunteers Safe, Secure

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Blaby District Police VolunteersSafe, Secure
ComfortableA Partnership Project of Blaby Local
Policing Unit, Leicestershire Fire Rescue
Service, and Blaby District Council Community
Safety TeamBlaby North Community
ForumNovember 2010
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Project Objectives

• Use Blaby Police Volunteer Team to visit
  vulnerable residents in North Blaby to make them
• Safe, Secure Comfortable.
• In a single visit, deliver content of three
  separate and independent visits by Leicester Fire
  Rescue, Blaby LPU uniformed officers and Blaby
  District Council.
• Completion in three months.

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Project Resources

• The Project acknowledges 4,000 from North Blaby
  Community Discretionary Funding to support
  essential travel and purchase of security aids.
• Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service provided
  Volunteer training, smoke alarms and leaflets
• LFRS trained four volunteers to carry out
  domestic fire surveys in place of their fire
  fighters.
• Blaby Local Policing Unit supplied Smartwater.

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Target Addresses

• 100 completed questionnaire sets required from
  vulnerable residents in North Blaby area
• Addresses expected to come from MOSAIC Database
• Supplemented by LPU recent victims of crime and
  residents of No Cold Calling Zones (NCCZs).
• A total of 228 homes were visited to complete
  101 questionnaires.

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Partner Objectives

• LFRS Standard Home Fire Safety Check, Firecare
  advisory referrals, contribute to annual target
  of 1000 domestic visits.
• Blaby LPU Mark with SmartWater, advise on
  resisting Distraction Burglary. Check household
  security and provide advice, supply small
  security aids, reinforce NCCZs.
• BDC Check help needed on benefit entitlements,
  mobility, personal care, keeping warm, repairs,
  registering for junk mail and phone call
  Preference Schemes.

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Project Management

• Project was Turnkey
• Visit tracking control for multiple teams
• Equipment sourcing
• Kit to support visits
• Quality assurance
• Direct advice on Distraction Burglary
• NCCZ reinforcement
• Lessons Learnt written
• Formal report for Best Practice

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Questionnaire Production
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Main Project Statistics

• 407 Volunteer hours used
• 338 individual visits made
• houses visited
• address entries produced for LFRS
• 101 questionnaire sets produced
• 50 smoke Alarms fitted
• 39 Refused Service
• 39 Not In Three visit rule
• 39 questionnaires referred to BDC

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Secondary Project Statistics

• 2.27 Addresses/questionnaire
• 3.35 Visits/Questionnaire
• 2.24 Miles/Visit
• 7.50 Miles/Questionnaire
• 4.05 Volunteer Hrs/Questionnaire
• 17.55 Cost of Security Aids/Questionnaire
• 21.63 Direct Expenditure/Questionnaire
• 23 of LFRS Annual Home Fire Safety target
  achieved

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Expenditure Summary
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Comparing Volunteers Paid Staff
Activity Estimate using staff _at_ 30/hr Total cost using volunteers Saving
Deliver SSC process to single Client 243 26 217
Deliver SSC process to 101 Clients 24,633 2,248 22,348

• Assumes staff cost of 30 per hour.

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