Crime and Safety

• Wirral Residents’ Survey - Wirral residents consider low levels of crime and anti-social behaviour to be the most important aspect of a good neighbourhood and say this should be the Council’s highest priority. This is most important to younger residents. Key issues concerning residents are drug dealing and usage and groups hanging around the streets.

• Crime and Anti-social Behaviour - Wirral’s crime, anti-social behaviour and drug offence rates are the lowest in Merseyside (per 1,000 population).

• Safer Wirral - The Wirral Safety Partnership (Safer Wirral) is made up of local agencies who work together to make Wirral safer by policing, safeguarding and supporting the local community and individuals.

• Safer Wirral - Amongst services Safer Wirral provide are: Safeguarding communities and preventing criminality and anti-social behaviour; Wrap-around response for victims and offenders of child exploitation; Combat effects of domestic abuse; Integrated offender management; and Target and disrupt serious and organised crime.

• Safer Wirral - ‘County Lines’ is a term used when drug gangs from big cities expand their operations to smaller towns, often using violence to drive out local dealers and exploiting children and vulnerable people to sell drugs. A common feature in county lines drug supply is the exploitation of young and vulnerable people. The dealers will frequently target children and adults - often with mental health or addiction problems - to act as drug runners or move cash so they can stay under the radar of law enforcement. Through Safer Wirral, Merseyside Police is able to work with multi-agency partners in developing a whole-system approach which is vital to ensuring that vulnerable people are identified and safeguarded, understand factors behind demand for drugs, and recover proceeds of crime

• Wirral Neighbourhoods and Deprivation - Wirral’s neighbourhoods contain areas amongst the most and least deprived in England.

• Wirral Neighbourhoods and Deprivation - Deprivation is high in large areas of some neighbourhoods in Birkenhead and Wallasey, predominantly Bidston & James, Seacombe and Birkenhead. These neighbourhoods have higher rates of anti-social behaviour and crime (per 1,000 population).

• Wirral Neighbourhoods and Deprivation - West Wirral and South Wirral have large areas in some neighbourhoods with some of the lowest deprivation in England, predominantly Heswall, Greasby, Frankby & Irby and Clatterbridge. These neighbourhoods have some of the lowest anti-social behaviour and crime (per 1,000 population) in England.

• Neighbourhood Crime Statistics for Wirral Community Police Team - Hub One and Wirral Community Police Team - Hub Two (Currently data not available from Police UK)

• Wirral Violence Profile(December 2014) 
  This profile, was produced by Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, for Wirral's then Community Safety Partnership

• Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG): Merseyside and Cheshire Themed Report: Assaults in the home across Merseyside and Cheshire(2011/12 to 2012/13)
  This Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG) report provides an analysis of assault in the home attendances to Accident and Emergency Departments (AEDs) across Merseyside and Cheshire, reporting on patient demography and incident levels between April 2011 and March 2013.

• Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG): Trends in violence across the North West of England 
  This briefing for commissioners and providers is to look at violence-related attendances to all Emergency Departments across the North West of England, supplemented by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) data, providing a much more detailed picture of violence-related activity across the region.

Wirral JSNA: Crime and Disorder Summary provided by Wirral Community Safety Partnership

• Latest Summary - October 2015
  

• Previous Summary - January 2015