Community Safety Partnerships work on the principle that no single agency can address all drivers of crime and antisocial behaviour, and that effective partnership working is vital to ensuring safer communities. We are the lead authority for the South Cambridgeshire Community Safety Partnership (CSP) and we work with:
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
- the Integrated Care System (Health)
- the Probation Service
- the Voluntary and Community Sector
Partners meet on a regular basis to agree action on local priorities and to share information about individuals engaging in anti-social behaviour and/or committing crime in the District to ensure action.
Please read our Community Safety toolkit and resources page for more help on keeping your community safe.
Please read our neighbourhood issues page for more information related to anti-social behaviour.
You can find out about levels of crime in the District by viewing the county Crime and Community Safety Atlas or on the police website.
If you need more details relating to policing where you live visit the Find My Police Team pages.
Prevention fund small grants
The CSP can apply for the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Prevention Fund - Small Grants to provide additional tools for work such as:
- local initiatives to prevent crime, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) or anti-social behaviour
- pro-active work with children and young people who are, or are at risk of becoming, involved in criminal or anti-social activities
- activity within specific community locations which demonstrate visible responses to local crime and disorder issues
- the empowerment of local communities to contribute to preventing crime and anti-social behaviour and increasing feeling of public safety.
The fund’s aim is to provide up to £5,000 for local initiatives which help to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour and increase feelings of public safety. Applications can be made by Voluntary and Community Organisations (where endorsed by a Community Safety Partnership or supported by a member of Cambridgeshire Constabulary), or by the Community Safety Partnership.
To discuss, please email communitysafety@scambs.gov.uk.
Community safety plans
For more information please read our Community Safety Plan 2025 to 2026 [PDF, 0.2MB].
The 2024/2025 CSP Strategic Assessment [PDF, 2.5MB] produced by Cambridgeshire County Council was used to identify strategic topics and themes for the current action plan.
Community engagement
Cambridgeshire Constabulary runs an open Community Policing Survey asking for your views and concerns about community safety, this information helps the local police team set their policing priorities for the next quarter. The Neighbourhood Policing team also run quarterly community engagement meetings which are your opportunity find out more about their service and help shape the neighbourhood policing priorities for the next quarter. Representatives from the Community Safety Partnership also attend this meeting to listen to the community concerns.
To register for attendance at a community engagement meeting please email communitymeeting@cambs.police.uk and quote "SOUTH CAMBS".
Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDR) - formerly known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR)
A Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDR) is a locally conducted multi-agency review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by:
- a person to whom he or she was related, or with whom he or she was or had been in an intimate personal relationship
- a member of the same household as himself or herself.
The formal renaming of DHRs to DARDRs was confirmed in Part 1, Section 19 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024. This change reflects a broader recognition of deaths linked to domestic abuse, including suspected suicides, which were not always captured under the term “homicide”.
DARDRs are a statutory requirement and are commissioned by the Community Safety Partnership. Their purpose is not to reinvestigate the death or apportion blame, but to:
- establish what lessons are to be learned from the death, regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims
- identify clearly what those lessons are, both within and between agencies, how they will be acted on, within what timescales, and what is expected to change as a result
- apply these lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures as appropriate
- prevent domestic violence homicide / suicide and improve service responses for all domestic violence victims and their children, through improved intra and inter-agency working.
The DARDR will usually draw upon information obtained from:
- interviews with family members
- interviews with significant people who may have known the victim
- obtaining information from participating agencies, either by way of an Individual Management Review (IMR), or by other means such as a chronology of events
More information and guidance can be found on the Home Office DHR webpage.