About the Community Safety Partnership
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 places statutory duties on agencies to come together to address crime and community safety within a Community Safety Partnership (CSP).
West Northamptonshire Community Safety Partnership brings together agencies who are working to make West Northamptonshire a safer place for local people and communities.
The West Northamptonshire Community Safety Partnership is well established, with a clear governance structure to deliver our statutory responsibilities as a collective to reduce crime and disorder and Anti-Social Behaviour.
Our vision
To make West Northamptonshire safer for our communities, businesses and visitors, by working in partnership to reduce the risk and harm of crime and anti-social behaviour. Working together we want to create a place where people feel safe and supported and the diversity of our community is valued.
We have condensed our vision, priorities and outcomes in the document below:
Governance
Priority 1: Work with our communities to ensure our neighbourhoods are safe spaces for everyone
- Support and influence approaches within priority neighbourhoods and vulnerable locations
- Establish engaged communities, improving community cohesion
- Create safer roads for all
Priority 2: Target those causing the greatest harm, tackling the causes of crime through prevention and early intervention
- Use partnership working to focus on early intervention, and utilising available powers and legislation to reduce antisocial behaviour, youth violence, exploitation and serious organised crime
- Provide increased Youth Offer to divert young people from opportunities to commit crime
- Improve understanding of Serious Organised Crime and gang related activity
Priority 3: Reduce incidents of serious violence including domestic abuse, sexual offences and knife crime
- Deliver the Domestic Abuse Strategy and the Serious Violence duty
- Use referral, education and prosecution to reduce the number of high-risk victims and offenders
- Reduce opportunity for violent extremism through the delivery of the Prevent and Protect duties
- Dismantle drug supply chains and effective treatment and recovery services through the delivery of the 10 year drug strategy
Priority 4: Protecting vulnerable people and safeguarding those at risk of exploitation
- Improve awareness and reporting for hate crime
- Contextual safeguarding to ensure victims and their families get the right support when they need it most
- Increase public confidence in reporting violence, particularly for those disproportionately affected
- Expand education and awareness amongst young people in relation to online abuse, gangs, knife crime, criminal and sexual exploitation and hate crime
Our partner organisations include:
- Northamptonshire Police
- Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Integrated Care Board
- National Probation Service
- Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
- Housing Providers
- Youth Offending Service
- Northamptonshire Children’s Trust
- Community, Voluntary and Faith Organisations
- Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership
Other strategies and partnership boards
Last updated 15 April 2026