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Information Classification: CONTROLLED Tackling environmental crime together Community Enforcement Partnership Pilot Cornwall Council James Peck Neighbourhoods Directorate Information Classification: CONTROLLED Environmental challenges

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Tackling environmental crime together

Community Enforcement Partnership Pilot

Cornwall Council

James Peck

Neighbourhoods Directorate

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Environmental challenges

  • ‘You are not doing enough’- from local

councils

  • Residents survey results: 58% of residents

felt environmental nuisance* was a very

  • r fairly big problem in their local area’.

*Environmental nuisance: fly tipping, dog fouling, littering

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Environmental challenges

  • Large, rural county (1,376 sq miles)
  • 400 miles of remote coastline
  • 536,000 population
  • 213 Parish/Town Councils
  • 9 dog wardens reduced to 4
  • 7 Community & Environmental Enforcement Officers
  • Ongoing budget cuts to front line enforcement staff
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Understanding our communities

  • Attended Community Network Panel meetings
  • Combined visits with town and parish councils to

problem areas

  • Combined high visibility enforcement patrols with

town and parish councils

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Our aim

“To engage and empower local communities to better tackle environmental nuisance/crime and to create a more green and prosperous Cornwall”

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What our communities wanted

Education Reporting Enforcement

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Education

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Environmental Fixed Penalty Notices

  • DEFRA
  • Littering: £150
  • Dog Fouling: £100
  • Fly tipping: £400
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Campaign activity

  • Litterless Cornwall
  • 1,400 online pledges
  • Changing behaviour
  • Collects emails to retarget those residents with

important environmental messaging that they then share and amplify on social media.

  • Cornwall’s anti- litter movement
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Targeted Signage

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Reporting

(Community Involvement)

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Online reporting

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Online reporting

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Incident Report Cards for Town and Parish Councils

  • New non-contact Enforcement tool
  • Co-designed with Launceston and

Bodmin Town Councils

  • To record key details relating to a

littering, dog fouling or fly tipping incident

  • Can enable the service of a postal

fixed penalty notice if accurate detail is provided.

  • Further evidence: dash cameras
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Incident Report cards

The launch of the Incident Report Cards has been extremely well received by Launceston Town

  • Council. It is an excellent scheme and shows really

strong partnership working between the two

  • rganisations’

Chris Drake – Clerk for Launceston Town Council

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Incident Report Card - Testimonial

“This scheme enables positive action to be taken against those very few individuals who persist in this disgusting behaviour (dog fouling) which is a health hazard to all.”

Chris Bell – Clerk for St Day Parish Council

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What has been done so far

  • Hosted 14 countywide training events
  • Engaged with 82/ 213 town and parish councils
  • 33 local councils currently implementing the

scheme.

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Enforcement

(Increasing Capacity)

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Multi-skilled enforcement officers

  • Trained & authorised 9 Civil

Parking Enforcement Officers

  • Authorised to issue:
  • Penalty charge notices

(PCNs) for parking offences

  • Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs)

for littering, dog fouling and ‘dogs on beaches’

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Interest from communities to provide additional multi-skilled enforcement patrolling

  • 2019 - deployed 3 multi-skilled civil parking

enforcement officers funded by Hayle, St Ives, St Miner Highlands/Lowlands town/parish Councils

  • Interest from 10 other town/parish councils for 2020
  • Currently upgrading current parking-only SLAs
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Multi-skilled enforcement officer

Kim Tyler Woods- Multi-skilled officer operating in St Minver Highlands and Lowlands

“To be in one area for the whole summer has meant I’ve been able to build good relationships with the locals and tourists, who quite often come back year after year.”

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Multi-skilled enforcement officer

Louise Dwelly - Support Services Manager, St Ives Town Council

The multi-skilled enforcement service was a highly effective example of joint working. For the first year since their introduction, the dog control

  • rders were enforced.”
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Authorising Town and Parish council staff with fixed penalty notice powers

  • City, town and parish council personnel authorised to issue ‘on the

spot’ Fixed Penalty Notices

  • Name and address powers (Community Safety Accreditation

scheme)

  • Provision of monthly, full-day training sessions
  • ‘Dealing with violence and aggression’ training and officer

shadowing opportunities

  • On-line access to FPN and patrol activity statistics
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Achieved

  • Trained and authorised 120 city, town and

parish council personnel with fixed penalty notice powers.

  • Currently training on average 15 personnel

every month

  • Implementation of new enforcement support

courses.

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Authorising Town and Parish Councils

“The training was delivered to a high standard and this now allows me to assist our residents, educate the public, and most importantly, protect

  • ur town. I highly recommend the Fixed Penalty

Notice training delivered by Kevin.”

Sinead Burrows- Head of Administration and Library Services, Saltash Town Council

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Community engagement successes

  • Established closer working relations with town/parish councils
  • Shared ownership and shared solutions
  • Strengthened community power
  • Satisfied communities
  • Increased enforcement capacity
  • Changing community behaviours
  • Sustainable service delivery

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Many thanks