Issue - meetings

Public Space Protection Order (PSPO)? (SL) or the Member Scrutiny Panel mtg held in June

Meeting: 09/10/2018 - Executive (Item 98)

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To consider the report of the Councillor Matthew Vizard and Councillor Laura Wright.

 

Place Scrutiny Committee considered the report at its meeting on 13 September 2018 and its comments will be reported.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Agreed

That the report be noted.

 

Reason for Decision:

 

As set out in the report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

Councillor Laura Wright presented the report which provided an update following implementation of the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in June 2017.

 

Members welcomed the decrease in the number of anti-social behaviour incidents by some 16% since the introduction of the PSPO.

 

Place Scrutiny Committee considered the report at its meeting on 13 September 2018 and its comments were reported.

 

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

 

 

 


Meeting: 13/09/2018 - Place Scrutiny Committee (Item 41)

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To receive a report from Councillors Vizard and Wright.

 

Inspector Simon Arliss, City Centre Policing Team from Devon and Cornwall Police will attend the meeting.  

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Councillors Vizard and Wright presented their written report of the review of the implementation of the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) undertaken in June 2017. The Spotlight Review Group included Members, City Council officers and representatives from the Police and considered the impact of the first six months of implementation. The Police had found the PSPO initiative to be a particularly flexible tool, and although challenges remained, more collaborative working through the PSPO would ensure that these could be dealt with more swiftly and effectively.

 

Councillor Vizard explained that the Review Group had rigorously reviewed the PSPO, and explored a number of issues around the perception, effectiveness and application and the effect on Police resources. The review showed that the PSPO was having a positive impact with the Police benefiting from using the Order as an additional preventative measure, which was borne out by the low level of arrests outlined in the report.  He hoped the public would start to see benefits from the PSPO, in the run up to the review in two years’ time.

 

Sector Inspector Simon Arliss attended the meeting and welcomed the opportunity to discuss this at the Review Group. He referred to the forthcoming University of Exeter Fresher’s Week and suggested that both the PSPO as well as guidance for students would provide a useful set of parameters for new students coming into the city setting out clear expectations on acceptable behaviour for all.

 

Place Scrutiny Committee noted that the current PSPO was working well in its current form and therefore should continue.