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What is community safety?

The feeling of being safe and secure within one's own home, workplace or a public area is an obvious essential element of Community Safety.

It involves the protection of everyone's right to live in, work in, or simply visit Aberdeenshire in confidence, without fear for their own or other peoples' well being, and includes the protection of their property.

Community Safety can be about:

  • preventing crime and the opportunity for it to be committed;
  • creating safe communities for residents and visitors;
  • generally improving upon the quality of life for everyone.

But, it is also about:

developing partnerships between the council, police, fire brigade, coastguard, local businesses, organisations, other service providers, voluntary agencies and, most importantly, local communities.
 Crossing patrol


Fishing village
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A Community Safety Partnership for Aberdeenshire was formed in 1998. The Partnership is now firmly established and the Steering Group has representation from:
Aberdeenshire Council Police Scotland
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service the Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Grampian Racial Equality Council NHS Grampian
Procurator Fiscal Service British Transport Police
Crimestoppers Scotland Scottish Ambulance Service
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

The Partnership was expanded in May 2003 by the addition of the Procurator Fiscal Service and the British Transport Police.

Grampian Health Board is represented through Health Promotions on the Task Group and various voluntary bodies, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, are represented on the Community Safety Groups.
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Under the Community Safety Partnership, seven Community Safety Groups (CSGs) have been formed to represent the following communities, use the links to find out more about your local Group: Arch
The CSGs will address local safety issues and will, in collaboration with the Partners, initiate projects to resolve them.

Membership of the CSGs includes representation from neighbourhood watch, business associations, elected members and youth groups.

The aim is to make these groups as widely representative of their areas as possible.
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Business opportunities
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