Co-operating, Engaging & Partnership Working with Police & other Agencies
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Our statutory partners currently include the PSNI, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast City Council, Youth Justice Agency and the Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership. They all have an important role to play in our community led partnership. Each organisation has responsibilities for dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour, so it is important that they all work together for the benefit of the Tigers Bay & Mountcollyer communities. Community representatives on the Tigers Bay & Mountcollyer Policing and Community Safety Partnership exercise a level of accountability with all the statutory partners by monitoring their performance when dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour to ensure that whenever possible, the statutory partners communicate and work in partnership with each other to reduce local crime and anti-social behaviour problems. |  |
Community representatives also have a responsibility to garner support and co-operation from local residents for policing and community safety initiatives and other related activities such as improving relationships between residents, police and other statutory agencies, encouraging residents to report crime, anti-social and suspicious behaviour and providing information to local residents in relation to crime prevention information and up to date crime statistics.
One of the ways our partnership keeps the community informed is by producing quarterly community safety magazines that detail the full range of responsibilities and services provided by Police and other statutory agencies when dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour. The magazines also highlights specific crime trends, anti-social behaviour hot spots and promote crime prevention advice. Click a link below to open a magazine in a new window
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POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND
 Neighbourhood Const George Kirk |  Neighbourhood Const Billy Millen |
 The Tigers Bay & Mountcollyer Neighbourhood Policing team is totally committed to partnership working with all communities in these areas. Policing and Community Safety Partnerships are fine examples of partnership work between the police, community and the statutory/voluntary sector. Multi-agency approaches to reducing crime and anti-social behaviour have certainly paid off in this area with statistics currently reflecting significantly reduced crime figures over the last few years. Local residents are now contacting police in greater numbers than ever before to report crime, suspicious activity and anti-social behaviour. This has allowed community police to develop a much stronger and meaningful relationship with the greater Finaghy community. |
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"Police will continue to support and work in partnership with the Tigers Bay & Mountcollyer communities in order to combat crime, anti-social behaviour and illegal drug activity to secure and ensure a safer Tigers Bay & Mountcollyer area for everyone"
Ian Campbell, Chief Inspector, York Road
BELFAST CITY COUNCIL
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Through our work we want to help build safer, shared and confident communities throughout Belfast. Our main functions are to:
| Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) was established in April 2012 and brings together the work of the former Community Safety Partnership and District Policing Partnership. It is facilitated by Belfast City Council and overseen regionally by the Department of Justice and the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Membership is made up of elected representatives, publicly appointed members of the community, and organisations which play a role in tackling crime and antisocial behaviour, such as the police. |
Belfast City Council want everyone to feel safe in the Tigers Bay and Mountcollyer areas, so we're working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and other groups to enforce alcohol bye-laws in public areas. The PSNI can confiscate alcohol, take the names of offending drinkers and then pass them onto us so we can prosecute them . This forms part of our ongoing work to reduce underage and on-street drinking. We also run education and awareness sessions in communities and schools throughout North Belfast.
When you're out and about, please be aware that anyone over the age of 18 caught drinking in a specified non-drinking area may be prosecuted and could face a fine of up to £500. Anyone under the age of 18 caught drinking will have their details passed on to the PSNI Youth Diversion Officer and have a letter sent to their parents. We may also use an acceptable behaviour contract as an early intervention method to encourage positive behaviour.
Street drinking in the Tigers Bay and Mountcollyer area is on the decline. Designated alcohol free zones have enabled Belfast City Council Community Safety Officers, supported by police, to deal more effectively with this particular problem.
Under age drinking is another focus. Faced with alcohol confiscation and a zero tolerance attitude, this activity is also in decline. Council staff also engage, educate and train staff from all the local off licences etc on the consequences of selling alcohol to underage persons.
LATEST NEWS!
Belfast City Council now has new Neighbourhood Officer Teams working across Belfast to help improve community safety. There are now two new Safer Neighbourhood Officers employed in North Belfast and they will be working with Mark Corbett (North Belfast Antisocial Behaviour Officer) to help residents deal with any problems they may experience within their community, as well as, celebrate the successes of any positive work. They both have a good working knowledge of North Belfast and are familiar with issues that exist in the area; including:
• on-street drinking,
• littering,
• graffiti,
• vandalism,
• dumping,
• dog fouling, and
• noise nuisance.
These new officers are really looking forward to building relationships with individuals and groups and assisting them in practical ways. The Safer Neighbourhood Officers are very happy to be working in your area they hope that together with local residents and other agencies they can make it feel safer and a better environment to live in. To get in touch with your local Neighbourhood Officers or to report antisocial behaviour call:
Mark Corbett: 07917 544365
NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSING EXECUTIVE
 | The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is a statutory agency that has a significant role to play in combating anti-social behaviour. The Housing Executive’s definition of Anti-social behaviour is; |
