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Community Safety in Your Area


The East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership is made up of a variety of organisations and works together to make your community a safer place to live, work and visit. We would like you to tell us what the priorities should be for keeping you safe in your local area, and throughout East Sussex. By your 'local area' we mean the area within 15-20 minutes walking distance from your home.
To ensure that we concentrate on the things that are important to you and your local area please could you tell us which town you live in and your postcode
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Your Local Area


We would like you to tell us what the priorities should be for keeping you safe in your local area, and throughout East Sussex. By 'your local area' we mean the area within 15-20 minutes walking distance from your home.
Q1 How safe or unsafe do you feel when outside in your local area?
           
  After dark          
  During the day          
Q2 Do you feel safer in your local area now than you felt...
         
  12 months ago        
  5 years ago        
  10 years ago        
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Q4 Thinking about your local area how much of a problem do you think each of the following are?
           
  Noisy neighbours or loud parties          
  Teenagers hanging around on the streets          
  Rubbish or litter lying around          
  Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage to property or vehicles          
  People using or dealing drugs          
  People being drunk or rowdy in public places          
  Abandoned or burnt out cars          
Please tell us which three of the following types of crime you think are the most important for us to tackle in your local area. Please rank them in order of their importance to you, where 1 is the most important, 2 the second most important and 3 the third most important. Even though you may feel that two or more of these issues are of equal importance please choose only three options and give them each a ranking of their own
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Please tell us which three of the following types of anti-social behaviour you think are the most important for us to tackle in your local area. Please rank them in order of their importance to you, where 1 is the most important, 2 the second most important and 3 the third most important. Even though you may feel that two or more of these issues are of equal importance please choose only three options and give them each a ranking of their own.
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Q13 Which of these do you think is the main cause of anti-social behaviour?
 
 
Q14 Would you say that there is less or more crime and anti-social behaviour in your local area than 12 months ago?
       
  Crime      
  Anti-social behaviour      
Q15 Have any of the following influenced your feelings, either positively or negatively, about crime or anti-social behaviour? Please select any that apply
       
  You, or someone you know has been a victim of crime or anti-social behaviour in the last 2 years      
  You have witnessed crime or anti-social behaviour      
  You have had face to face contact with the local Police      
  You have read something written by the local Police e.g. poster, leaflet or website information      
  Neighbourhood newsletter      
  National newspapers      
  Local newspapers      
  National news on television or radio      
  Local news on television or radio      
  Television programmes such as Crimewatch or the Bill      
  The way your local area looks      

The Police and Other Local Public Services


It is the responsibility of the police and other local public services to work together to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour. We would like to hear your views about this.
 
Q16 Thinking about the police and other local public services, how much would you agree or disagree with the following?  
           
  The Police and other local public services are successfully dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour in my local area                              
  The Police and other local public services seek people's views about crime and anti-social behaviour in my local area          
Q17 Before starting this survey had you ever heard about the following partnerships? Please select all that apply
       
  Eastbourne Crime Reduction Partnership      
  Safer Hastings Partnership      
  Lewes Crime Reduction Partnership      
  Safer Rother Partnership      
  Safer Wealden Partnership      
  East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership      
Q17g If you live in Hastings have you seen any of the plasma community TV screens? If so where have you seen them?
 
Q17h If you live in Hastings have you ever read about the Safer Hastings Partnership in the Hastings Observer?
 
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Q19 Have you been a victim of crime or anti-social behaviour in the last two years?
 
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About you

The following questions help us to understand more about the make up of our community, which in turn helps us make decisions and target our services where they are needed. We have a statutory duty to collect this information to show that we are eliminating unlawful discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity and good race relations. You do not have to complete this section of the survey but it helps us if you do. Any responses you give will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Q20 Are you...
 
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The Disability Discrimination Act considers a person disabled if they have a longstanding physical or mental condition that has lasted or is likely to last at least 12 months, and this condition has a substantial adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Q24 Do you consider yourself to be disabled as set out in the Disability Discrimination Act?
 
Thank you for taking part in this survey your views are important to us.  We will be looking at the results of this survey at regular intervals throughout the year to check how we are doing and will provide regular updates on our progress. These updates will be available on the County Council and other partners websites.  An annual summary of the results will also be produced early in 2011. If you would like to be sent a copy of this annual summary please provide your contact details below.
 
Q25 I would  like to receive a summary of the Annual results
 
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