The Leicestershire and Rutland Safer Communities Strategy Board were scheduled to meet to discuss community safety and partnership working across Leicestershire and Rutland. The agenda included updates on community protection notices, HMIP inspections, domestic abuse related death reviews, and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. The board was also expected to discuss performance and future meeting dates.

Community Protection Notices

T/Chief Inspector 2991 Craig Smith-Curtis from Leicestershire Police was scheduled to present a report on the use of Community Protection Notices (CPNs) and Community Protection Notice Warnings (CPNWs) across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR).

CPNs are legal tools used to prevent individuals or organisations from behaving in a way that negatively impacts the community's quality of life, as defined in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014¹. A CPN can require someone to stop doing something, take action to rectify a problem, or take steps to prevent an issue from recurring. CPNWs are informal warnings that are issued before a CPN, giving the individual a chance to correct their behaviour voluntarily.

The report noted that there were inconsistencies in the use of CPNWs and CPNs across districts. For example, Charnwood issued 17 CPNWs, while North West, East Leicester, and South Leicester reported zero usage.

To address this disparity, the report put forward the following proposals:

• Develop and deliver partnership-wide training on the use of CPNWs and CPNs.
• Introduce a standardised decision-making framework.
• Nominate district leads to champion the use of CPN tools.
• Review and update local policies and procedures.
• Run a trial in Market Harborough NPA, supported by Leye Price, Community Safety Manager, and the force ASB Support Team.

The board was asked to consider these proposals and provide feedback.

Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner Update

Sajan Devshi, Partnerships and Commissioning Officer, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, was scheduled to provide an update on the work of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC).

The update included information on the Community Action Programme, a new initiative designed to empower local organisations to take action within their communities. The programme is underpinned by several key pillars including:

• Public Crime Prevention Advice
• Crime Prevention Toolkit
• Co-produced initiatives
• Community Action Fund

The Community Action Fund (CAF) provides targeted funding to smaller organisations and community groups. There are six themed grant rounds in total which will open throughout 2025/2026. The themes for this fund are based on the six delivery strategies within the Police and Crime Plan. These rounds include:

• Rural Crime
• Road Safety
• Violence and Vulnerability
• Business Crime
• Neighbourhood Crime
• Violence against women and girls (VAWG)

The update also included information on the Safer Street Summers work, which focuses on proactive efforts to address street crime, retail crime, and anti-social behaviour.

The OPCC requested that all Community Safety Partnership (CSP) funded partners give particular focus on rural crime and use funding towards this where appropriate.

The update also noted that the Police and Crime Commissioner has a statutory duty to regularly engage and consult with the public, and that he has created dedicated 'Community Days' to listen to the views of local people. The main themes that have come out of the PCC's Community Days are anti-social behaviour, business crime, and e-scooters.

L&R Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews

Holly Wells, Domestic Abuse Related Death Review Support Officer, Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Partnerships Business Office, was scheduled to present an update on the current Domestic Abuse related Death Reviews (DArDR) within Leicestershire and Rutland.

Domestic Abuse related Death Reviews (formerly known as Domestic Homicide Reviews) are carried out when someone aged 16 or over dies and their death has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by a person to whom they were related or with whom they were or had been in an intimate personal relationship, or a member of the same household as themselves.

The purpose of a DArDR is to establish what lessons are to be learned from the domestic homicide regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims.

There are currently twelve Domestic Abuse related Death Reviews in progress at various stages across Leicestershire.

The Safeguarding Partnership Business Office have been notified that there are significant delays in terms of reports that are submitted to the Home Office being heard by the Quality Assurance Panel of up to several months.

HMIP Inspection

Kaye Knowles, Interim Head of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Delivery Unit, was scheduled to present a report to update the Board on the His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) inspection and subsequent action plan for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Probation Delivery Unit (PDU).

HMIP visited in March 2025 and examined 71 cases which consisted of both Community Orders and Post Custody licences.

There were six overall recommendations made:

• Improve the quality of the work to assess and review risk of harm ensuring all available information is accessed and utilised.
• Conduct a learning analysis to understand the skills and knowledge of the practitioner group and implement a system to ensure gaps in learning are met.
• Develop practitioners' confidence and skills in the use of professional curiosity and challenging conversations to identify, analyse, assess, plan and respond to indicators of risk effectively.
• Devise and implement a strategy for returning to a sustainable level of service in which Senior Probation Officers are focussed on leading their teams and monitoring the quality of work produced by practitioners.
• Ensure effective management oversight is provided to enhance and sustain the quality of the work with people on probation and keeping people safe.
• Reinforce, publicise the process for the gathering of social care and Police information via the in-house safeguarding hub and ensure that all staff are aware of the process and rationale for utilising this resource.

ASB System - ECINS update

Gurjit Samra-Rai, Strategic Lead – Safer Communities, Leicestershire County Council was scheduled to give a verbal update on progress with implementation of the new Anti-social Behaviour recording system known as ECINS².

Prevent Home Office Sub Threshold Pilot Update

Gurjit Samra-Rai, Strategic Lead – Safer Communities, Leicestershire County Council, was scheduled to give a verbal update on the Pilot with regards to perpetrators of violence with no ideology which arose from the Southport attack in July 2024.

Safer Communities Performance - Quarter 1

Anita Chavda, Projects and Planning Officer, Community Safety Team, Leicestershire County Council, was scheduled to present a report to update the Leicestershire & Rutland Safer Communities Strategy Board (LRSCSB) regarding Safer Communities performance for 2025/26 Q1.

Key points of the dashboard are summarised below:

• Ongoing Reductions in crime
• Protect and Support the most vulnerable in communities
• Continue to reduce Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)
• Preventing Terrorism and Radicalisation