Safer Communities

(a) The functions and areas of policy and decision making responsibility are:

  • Strategic lead for safer neighbourhoods/community safety partnership
  • Public Protection including Trading Standards; Water and Food Safety; Environmental Protection; Licensing; and Animal and Housing Standards, Advice and Homelessness
  • Community Wardens, parking and public space protection order enforcement
  • CCTV, Security and Out of Hours Centre
  • Public Health Protection functions (e.g. environmental hazards, infectious diseases)