PACT: Partners and Communities Together

PACT is a new Government initiative designed to tackle policing and safer neighbourhood issues within communities.

The Safer Neighbourhoods programme was officially launched in Warwickshire on 21 November 2006. Safer Neighbourhood Policing involves working with partner agencies (eg. the Parish, District and County Council and other bodies) to create safer and more confident neighbourhoods where the police and their partners understand the issues that concern local people and are able to tackle them together.

What this means in practice is that any resident can contact the Safer Neighbourhood Team via email, to report any issues that may concern the community. This is generally for those 'non-urgent' matters that no one feels are important enough to report, such as minor vandalism, dangerous parking etc.

There is also a web site where the SNT team have their own web pages.

The Police have also given an undertaking to attend (where reasonably practical) every Parish Council meeting to listen to any concerns from the general public. If an issue is considered significant enough, it can be taken on to a PACT Panel Meeting. At these meetings, the issues will be voted on to establish the top three and those three will benefit from a multi-partnership approach ie. all the bodies involved, the police, the District and County Councils etc. will pool resources to try to get them solved.

Parish Council Meetings are held monthly except for August and December. Please check the village notice boards or this web site for details.

If you have any issues you wish to raise with either the Council or the Police please do come along to the meetings.