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LISBURN POLICING AND COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP

What are PCSPs?

PCSPs (Policing and Community Safety Partnerships) aim to make our community safer.

They are statutory bodies established under the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 and bring together, in one partnership, the functions and responsibilities of District Policing Partnerships (DPPs) and Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs), building on the most useful and effective aspects of each, while operating in a more streamlined and joined up way.

They are funded jointly by the Department of Justice and the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Each PCSP has a Policing Committee to take forward specific police monitoring and engagement functions, with the wider PCSP taking forward community safety related functions.

PCSPs may also establish Delivery Groups to address particular community safety issues that arise in their areas.

LISBURN PCSP

Who we are?

Lisburn PCSP has 10 political members and 9 independent members (appointment of independent members will be confirmed during April 2012).

The following are political members on the PCSP:

Councillor Stephen Magennis, (Chairman)	Councillor Thomas Beckett
Councillor Alan Carlisle	Councillor Pat Catney
Councillor Andrew Ewing	Councillor Jenny Palmer
Councillor John Palmer	Councillor Brian Dornan
Councillor Ronnie Crawford	Councillor Uel Mackin

The following are independent members on the PCSP:

Mrs Betty Campbell	Mrs Elizabeth Price
Mr Philip Dean	Mr Michael George
Mr Martin Busch (Vice-Chairman)	Mr Ben Mallon
Mr Colm Keenan	Miss Fiona McCausland
Mrs Barbara Horner

The Lisburn PCSP Manager is Mrs Angela McCann.

What we do?

Lisburn PCSP aims to make our community safer. We do this by focusing on the policing and community safety issues that matter most in Lisburn. We:

consult and engage with the local community on the issues of concern in relation to policing and community safety. The Policing Committee has a distinct responsibility to provide views to the relevant district commander and the Policing Board on policing matters;
identify and prioritise the particular issues of concern and prepare plans for how these can be tackled;
monitor - a Policing Committee comprising the political and independent members will monitor the performance of the police and work to gain the co-operation of the public with the police in preventing crime;
deliver a reduction in crime and enhance community safety in our district, directly through our own interventions, through the work of our delivery groups or through support for the work of others.

Policing Committee

Lisburn PCSP Policing Committee works with local police to develop the local policing plan and monitor their performance against this plan.

The role of the Policing Committee is to carry out the following specific functions:

to provide views to a relevant police commander and to the Policing Board on any matter concerning the district;
to monitor performance of the police in carrying out the policing plan in the district; and
to make arrangements for obtaining the co-operation of the public with the policing in preventing crime and enhancing community safety in the district.

Community Safety

Lisburn PCSP will work with the community to identify issues of concern in the local area and potential solutions, and will prepare a plan to address these concerns. The focus of the plan will be on delivering practical solutions.

We also work in partnership with those organisations that have a contribution to make to enhancing community safety in our area.