Public Performance Reporting

Community Safety

• South Ayrshire’s Community Safety Partnership aims to create a safe, healthy and confident South Ayrshire, working with the Police, Fire & Rescue, NHS Ayrshire & Arran and others to develop services and projects that will help to achieve this.
• SafeAyr Zone is about making Ayr town centre a safer and more attractive place to go at the weekend. As a result taxi marshals clear the town more quickly and more taxi drivers want to work in that area. Additional policing in this zone has led to an increase in the number of crimes reported being successfully detected.
• SafeAyr Shore tackled antisocial behaviour on Ayr Seafront. During seven specific weeks in the summer, 2006, it succeeded in reducing the number of complaints from the public to the police about antisocial behaviour on the esplanade to 30, from 55 in the corresponding weeks of 2005.
• To raise awareness of the support available to women and children experiencing domestic abuse, stickers with contact details for information and support were put on household recycling bins.
• The Local Action fund supports projects that provide diversionary activities for hundreds of young people.
• There are now 14 Community Support Officers working with communities in Ayr North, Wallacetown, Maybole and Girvan.
• 11 cases have recently been resolved by the new Mediation Service which helps neighbours to sort out their differences in a friendly manner.
• Over 500 cases have been reported to the Antisocial Behaviour Service which offers free and confidential advice on: 0845 850 2825.