Get involved in crime reduction in the Havant Borough
There are so many varied and interesting ways to become
involved in your local community and make a real contribution to
reducing crime. Follow the links below to find out how your
help can make all the difference:
Join your local Neighbourhood Watch
Scheme...or set up your own! >>
Have your say at a community board
meeting >>
Join the Havant Borough Council Citizen's
Panel >>
Volunteer as a Justice of the Peace
>>
Use your time and talent wisely and
become a police support volunteer >>
If you are a PCC tenant, why not join the
Resident Participation scheme? >>
Age 11-21? The Havant Borough Youth
Council gets your voice heard >>
Neighbourhood Watch
You can help to make your community safer by joining your local
Neighbourhood Watch scheme. Neighbourhood Watch is one of the
largest and most successful crime prevention schemes ever,
with 3.8 million households in England and Wales taking
part. Neighbourhood Watch works not only to reduce crime but
to build community spirit and good relations, bringing local people
closer together with the common goal of tackling crime and disorder
and keeping an eye on each other's property.
Link to information on your local Neighbourhood
Watch >>
Community Boards
Havant Borough Council's Community Boards give a
voice to local residents and a platform from them to
share their opinions, aspirations, wants and needs. Their
members work as representatives of the local population and they
also invite members of the general public to their meetings.
Find out more about the Community Boards by following the link
below:
External
link to information on your local Community Board >>
Citizens’ Panel
Havant Citizens’ Panel has around 1,500 members across Havant
who are willing to give their views on local issues. Each
Panel member fills in at least three questionnaires a year and is
occasionally invited to take part in other activities such as focus
groups or special one-off consultations.
External link to
information on joining the Havant Citizens’ Panel >>
Becoming a magistrate
By volunteering as a magistrate you will gain new and
valuable skills whilst serving your community and making your local
area a safer place to live. Magistrates, or Justices of the
Peace, deal with around 95 per cent of criminal cases in
England and Wales, including many of the crimes that most affect
the public, such as anti-social behaviour. Some of your
duties may include determining whether a defendant is guilty
or not and passing the appropriate sentence, deciding on requests
for remand in custody and deciding on applications for
bail.
You need to be able to commit at least 26 half-days per year to
sit in court (employers are required by law to grant reasonable
time off work for magistrates). Magistrates are not paid for their
services. However, many employers allow time off with pay for
magistrates. You don't need legal or academic qualifications
to be a magistrate and full training is provided.
External link to further information about becoming a magistrate
>>
Becoming a police support volunteer
Police support volunteers are people with the time to give and
the enthusiasm to make a difference. You don't necessarily need to
have any particular skills - although specialists are always
welcome - just the right attitude and community values.
Having the support of people who give up their time and talents
to help their local police teams means that we can keep officers
and staff where you want them to be - out of offices and actively
working in your neighbourhoods.
Perhaps you want to increase your skills and become more
employable, perhaps you are recently retired with more spare time
and skills to put to good use, or perhaps you are simply motivated
to do something meaningful with your spare time. The hours can be
flexible to suit you and your commitments, and the roles vary from
administration support to victim contact work.
Follow the link below to find out more and apply online or call
0845 045 45 45.
External link
to the Hampshire Constabulary website >>
Portsmouth City Council Resident Participation Team
The Resident Participation Team promotes a range of
opportunities for council residents and leaseholders, ensuring
they can take an active role in developing and changing the
council’s housing services and make improvements to their local
area and community.
External
link to further information on the Resident Participation Team
>>
Havant Borough Youth Council (HBYC)
Havant Borough Youth Council was launched in 2002 to give the
young people of Havant Borough a voice within their community.
Since then HBYC has gone from strength to strength with Youth
Council members regularly meeting with the providers of services
and projects to influence and inform how they can best be
delivered. Havant Borough Council recognises the importance and
benefit of listening to children and young people in order to
change, improve and introduce new services.
Any young person aged between 11-21 who lives, works or learns
in Havant Borough and who wants to have a say in what goes on in
their community can get involved in Havant Borough Youth Council.
HBYC meets regularly every month either formally or informally to
discuss how their ideas and opinions can be heard.
For more information on becoming part of Havant Borough Youth
Council contact Tracy Vear on 023 9244 6625 or email
tracy.vear@havant.gov.uk
External link to the Havant
Borough Youth Council website >>
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