Cambridge

Led by Cambridge Community Safety Partnership, in 2008, a number of projects have been carried out to tackle drug and alcohol misuse issues. Below is the list of some exciting new and ongoing projects have taken place.

Enhancing the links with Addenbrookes Hospital

In 2008 the first joint seminar was held by the Community Safety Partnership and Addenbrookes Hospital. The purpose was to further enhance the Partnerships response to tackling alcohol related violent crime and to improve sharing of information with the hospital. Projects identified at this seminar included a pilot Taxi Marshalling project (subsequently funded through a Safer City Grant) and the need for a brief intervention project in both Addenbrookes hospital and Parkside Police Station.

Community Alcohol Partnership

Led by Trading Standards, the Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP) has been formed to reduce underage drinking in three wards to the East of the City. The project uses a number of different tactics including test purchasing in off license premises, high visibility patrols with police, licensing officers and trading standard officers and visits to local schools in the area.

Conditional Cautioning scheme

Conditional Cautioning has been extended to include low level alcohol related offences, this project increasing the opportunity for alcohol interventions to be imposed on an individual. The project takes a restorative justice approach to alcohol related offences.

Prolific and Priority Offender scheme (PPO)

The PPO scheme continued to run in 2008 to reduce re-offending. As always, the scheme targets those individuals responsible for the bulk of offending in Cambridge. However, in 2008 the scheme was realigned to increase the emphasis on the deter element of the scheme. In 2008 a specific cohort of young people were identified and they received extra support to reduce the opportunity for them to become offenders.

                                                                              Updated Jul 2009