Dane Anderton - Police, Crime and Civil Contingencies

Main roles and responsibilities of the portfolio

• To govern the delivery of the Deal 2030 priorities and pledges in the Wigan Council Recovery Plan
 
• To drive forward the Community Wealth Building approach working with our communities and partners to deliver safer neighbourhoods for residents to enjoy
• To support the delivery of our Climate Change Strategy, including encouraging communities and partners to consider their environmental impact
• To ensure that the council has an efficient and effective 24/7/365 response capability, plans and processes in place to discharge its statutory responsibility under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and associated legislation and guidance
• To support a programme to build both individual and communities of resilience (including businesses); enabling them to be better prepared and develop the capacity to absorb shocks and return to some form of normality quicker - sufficient resilience to prevent stress fractures or even system collapse
• To give advice and assistance on Business Continuity and Planning to council directorates, businesses, and community groups
• To support our Community Safety Strategy including:
  • Leading on the community safety portfolio and priorities for the borough
  • Ensuring effective partnership responses to community safety priorities through the delivery and oversight of the Place and Community Safety Partnership action plans
  • Strategic leadership of the community safety priorities and liaison with the Police and Crime Commissioners office on the delivery of PCC priorities within Wigan borough plans
  • Chairpersonship of the Community Safety Partnership Steering Group
  • Representation for the Borough on GM governance structures relating to Policing, Fire Services, and Crime
  • Liaison with Greater Manchester Police on the quality and delivery of Policing services to residents of the borough
  • Supporting the development of key intelligence to underpin the priorities of the Place and Community Safety Partnership Board, and oversee the development of a dashboard to report progress
  • Delivery and assurance of community safety priorities, including tackling anti-social behaviour, violent crime, domestic abuse, and acquisitive crime priorities
  • Respond to Home Office and Police and Crime Commissioner requirements and directives, relating to community cohesion and safety, including offender management, hate crime, Prevent and Channel management, asylum seeker and refuge support, and other related activities
  • Oversee the Police and Crime Commissioner investment and external funding grants to ensure that they are used online with the criteria provided and have a positive impact on reducing crime and increasing feelings of safety in the borough
  • Oversight of the adoption of the new Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the fulfilment by the Council of new statutory powers in 21/22. Oversight of a Domestic Abuse Strategy to be in place by 31 October 2021 and to give effect to related commissioning decisions around support and safe accommodation for victims.

Priorities for 2023/2024

• Oversight of the Place and Community Partnership Board in delivering against the 2022/25 strategy and agreed priorities
• Continue the roll out of integrated place-based working, including the integration of GMP
• Continuing support for Operation Bluefin to address anti-social behaviour
• Scrutiny to ensure delivery against the GM Police and Crime Plan “Standing Together”
• Completion of relevant Strategic Needs and Assets assessments for Domestic Abuse and Safe Accommodation
• Deliver a series of in Borough Action Counter Terrorism training courses in partnership with our Counter Terrorism Security Advisor, Counter Terrorism Policing Northwest, to both council and partner organisations staff - including the business community
• Deliver a number of tabletop and other exercises to test Community resilience plans
• Continue to work in conjunction with care home providers to increase early reporting of outbreaks and improve infection prevention and control within their establishments through education.
• Review of the ‘Borough Outbreak Plan’.

Functions covered by the portfolio

Community Safety

• Community Resilience Team
• Public Service Reform hub
• Domestic abuse community service contract
• Independent Domestic Violence Advocate
• Local Authority Asylum Support Liaison Officers
• Victim support service
• Prevent and Channel Panel management
• Community Cohesion and Hate Crime
• Management of the Place and Community Safety Partnership
• Service Delivery footprints, multi-agency responses to local crime and Ant-social behaviour hotspots.
• Public Protection orders
• CCTV and target hardening
• Liaison with Greater Manchester Police on joint responses to Police and crime priorities
• Liaison and representation at GM Police and Crime Panel and Steering Group meetings
• Implementation of new statutory requirements and responsibilities as required.
• Community Safety investment.

Civil Contingencies

• Facilitating the councils 24/7/365 emergency response capability
• Facilitating the councils 24/7/365 response to planned events, e.g. demonstrations, marches, celebrations, concerts
• Emergency Planning
• Humanitarian support
• Warning and informing the population
• Training and exercising
• Business Continuity
• Building Resilient Communities
• Co-ordinating the Council’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 strategy and response (section 36)
• Liaising and working with other Category 1 and 2 Responders 
• Facilitating the Wigan Borough Resilience Forum
• CCTV/security enforcement
• Neighbourhoods Town Centre
• Community safety/anti-social behaviour/police
• CCTV/security enforcement
• Joint Intelligence Unit and Data Management.

Council Appointments

• GMCA Overview and Scrutiny Committee
• Statutory Functions Committee
• Police, Crime and Fire Panel
• Police, Crime and Fire Steering Group
• Wigan Flashes Conservation and Community Group
• Adult Learning Board - Chair.