The next phase of Nottingham’s ground breaking and nationally replicated ‘Respect’ programme has been launched.

Respect for Nottingham was originally launched in 2003, since then it has evolved into a city-wide partnership committed to tackle low level crime and anti-social behaviour. Ongoing dialogue with local people, through the Week of Action programme and the Anti-Social Behaviour survey has informed the new strategy. This has ensured that ‘improving the quality of people’s lives’ remains at the heart of all its aspirations.

Crime has fallen by 28% across the City during the last 3 years and our target is to reduce crime by a further 25% by March 2011. Respect for Nottingham is one of the drivers which will be used to achieve this challenging target.

The 2008-2011 Respect for Nottingham Strategy will build on the partnerships achievements to date and prioritises the following issues:

• Begging
• Street Prostitution
• Drug Dealing/Drug Misuse
• Environmental Crime (such as flytipping and graffiti)
• Anti-Social Behaviour
• Alcohol
• Respect & Consideration

Click here to download the Respect for Nottingham 2008-2011 strategy document

Alan Given QPM, Chief Executive, Nottingham Crime and Drug Partnership said:

"Over the next 3 years Respect for Nottingham will continue to tackle the anti-social minority whose attitudes and behaviours affect the lives of others. We will use all the resources at our disposal to target the issues that local people say affect them the most.

The new strategy builds on the excellent partnership working that has been a key feature in the success of Respect, the strategy will deliver tangible and sustainable improvements in our local communities. Our commitment to drive down levels of crime and anti-social behaviour is unrelenting and through initiatives like Respect for Nottingham we will realise our aim to make Nottingham ‘Cleaner, Greener, Safer and Healthier’ for everyone." Councillor Jon Collins, Leader of Nottingham City Council said:

"The whole approach of Respect for Nottingham is to deal robustly with anti social behaviour, which has the knock-on effect of reducing the likelihood of more serious crime taking hold. I think the fact that we've seen a reduction of 9% in anti social behaviour over the last 18 months, a reduction of 28% in crime over the past five years, and a corresponding 7% reduction in the fear of crime, shows we are undoubtedly heading in the right direction.

"What the new Respect for Nottingham programme for the next three years does is re-focus our efforts on some of the key issues that affect people the most - and we have an excellent base to build from and can use many of the methods, such as Neighbourhood Policing, that have served us so well so far."

The Respect for Nottingham 2008-2011 strategy document will be available to download shortly, hard copies can be obtained from the CDP by contacting us.