Blaby District Police Volunteers

Safe, Secure & ComfortableA Partnership Project of Blaby Local Policing Unit,

Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service, and Blaby District Council Community Safety Team

Blaby North Community ForumNovember 2010

Project Objectives

• Use Blaby Police Volunteer Team to visit vulnerable residents in North Blaby to make them:

‘Safe, Secure & Comfortable’.• In a single visit, deliver content of three separate

and independent visits by Leicester Fire & Rescue, Blaby LPU uniformed officers and Blaby District Council.

• Completion in three months.

Project Resources

• The Project acknowledges £4,000 from North Blaby Community Discretionary Funding to support essential travel and purchase of security aids.

• Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service provided Volunteer training, smoke alarms and leaflets– LFRS trained four volunteers to carry out domestic fire

surveys in place of their fire fighters.

• Blaby Local Policing Unit supplied Smartwater.

Target Addresses

100 completed questionnaire sets required from vulnerable residents in North Blaby area:

• Addresses expected to come from MOSAIC Database

• Supplemented by LPU ‘recent victims of crime’ and residents of ‘No Cold Calling Zones’ (NCCZs).

A total of 228 homes were visited to complete 101 questionnaires.

Partner Objectives

• LFRS: Standard Home Fire Safety Check, Firecare advisory referrals, contribute to annual target of 1000 domestic visits.

• Blaby LPU: Mark with SmartWater, advise on resisting Distraction Burglary. Check household security and provide advice, supply small security aids, reinforce NCCZs.

• BDC: Check help needed on benefit entitlements, mobility, personal care, keeping warm, repairs, registering for junk mail and phone call Preference Schemes.

Project was ‘Turnkey’

• Visit tracking & control for multiple teams

• Equipment sourcing

• ‘Kit’ to support visits

• Quality assurance

• Direct advice on Distraction Burglary

• NCCZ reinforcement

• ‘Lessons Learnt’ written

• Formal report for ‘Best Practice’

Project Management

Questionnaire Production

407 Volunteer hours used

338 individual visits made

228 houses visited

229 address entries produced for LFRS

101 questionnaire sets produced

50 smoke Alarms fitted

39 ‘Refused Service’

39 ‘Not In’ – Three visit rule

39 questionnaires referred to BDC

Main Project Statistics

Secondary Project Statistics

2.27 Addresses/questionnaire

3.35 Visits/Questionnaire

2.24 Miles/Visit

7.50 Miles/Questionnaire

4.05 Volunteer Hrs/Questionnaire

£17.55 Cost of Security Aids/Questionnaire

£21.63 Direct Expenditure/Questionnaire

23% of LFRS Annual Home Fire Safety target achieved

Expenditure Summary

Comparing Volunteers & Paid Staff

•Assumes staff cost of £30 per hour.

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