The Bolton Vision partners

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Safe BoltonSafe Bolton

We all want to live in safer communities. Key crimes in Bolton have already fallen sharply – in the past three years, burglary has halved.

Both the number of vehicles stolen and thefts from vehicles have reduced by a third and serious woundings have dropped by almost 40 percent.

Despite these major improvements, big challenges around crime remain. That’s why Bolton’s Be Safe partnership is working hard to build better relations with all communities, listening to concerns and gathering more information on criminal activity.

You said:

  • crime is the most important issue in making our neighbourhoods good places to live
  • that whilst crime levels have fallen sharply, the fear of crime remains high
  • anti-social behaviour is the area of greatest concern for local people.

We will:

further reduce crime and the fear of crime

New neighbourhood policing arrangements will provide more reassurance to communities and will see police and other agencies working even more closely together with local people to tackle crime. We will:

  • reduce key crimes in Bolton (19,450 in 2006/2007) by 10% in 2010, 15% in 2012 and 25% in 2017.

prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour

Bolton’s 2007 Beacon award for preventing and tackling anti-social behaviour confirms our approach as one of the country’s best. As one of 40 Respect Action Areas we will continue to improve working with schools, families, and the community. We will:

  • reduce the number of Bolton residents who feel that young people hanging around is a big problem from 64% in 2006/2007 to 60% by 2010, 57% by 2012 and 50% by 2017
  • increase the number of local people who feel very or fairly well informed about what is being done to tackle anti-social behaviour from 19% in 2006/2007 to 40% in 2010, 45% in 2012 and 50% in 2017.

make our roads safer

Safer roads will save lives. All partners – from schools, police, health services and above all, parents and young people – will play a key role in reducing deaths and injuries. We will:

  • reduce the number of children killed or seriously injured on Bolton’s roads from an annual average of the years 1994/1998 (base year) of 36 to 16 or lower by 2010 - a 55% reduction on the base year and to improve this reduction in all categories by 2012 and 2017 above national targets.