Purpose

Avon and Somerset OPCC have been awarded a
Home Office grant and have allocated £230,000 of the grant to
Bristol City Council (BCC). The grant has been allocated to allow
BCC to implement agreed interventions that address ASB and SV
incidents that are occurring in specific hotspots.
The BCC element of this coordinated approach includes detached
youth work and mentoring, re-deployable CCTV and community led
action.
The priority areas have been identified by Avon and Somerset Police
and the OPCC and are as follows: East St, BedminsterMorrisons;
Hartcliffe; Newquay Rd, Knowle West; Cabot Circus; Stokes Croft;
Queen Charlotte St; St Augustine’s Parade; Gloucester Rd;
Queen’s Rd/Triangle; Park St; Corn St;Jamaica St; Broad Quay;
Union/Fairfax St; The Podium, Broadmead; Marlborough St Bus
Station; Pero’s Bridge; Broad Weir; Horsefair; Wine St;
Stapleton Rd.
All of the activity that this funding pays for is intended to
address ASB and Serious Violence incidents in these
localities.

Content

Accepting this funding will result in
significant resource being brought into the City within the
specified areas. This will in turn result in an opportunity to
bolster detached youth work provision in areas specified, improve
CCTV and engage and utilise the communities resulting in
strengthening social action. All of which will have a positive
impact on preventing and reducing serious violence and ASB.

Alternative options considered

An alternative option would be to decline this
offer of Home Office funding and in turn do not deliver on the
crime prevention and crime reduction interventions as outlined
above.