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Funding for safer streets
11/12/2006
Extra funding of £600,000 to help ensure revellers enjoy safe nights out this Christmas and New Year was announced today, as the Safer Scotland pre-Christmas roadshow set up in Dumbarton, the first of 12 locations it will visit.
Four cities and eight towns will benefit from funding of between £40,000 and £100,000 each to provide enhanced services such as additional high profile policing, late night taxi marshalling, alcohol-free events for young people and increased support for domestic abuse services.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson said:
"This Executive is committed to building safer, stronger communities.
"Together with Community Safety Partnerships and the Violence Reduction Unit, we are driving down crime and tackling antisocial behaviour, ensuring that the people of Scotland are safer on the streets and in their homes.
"However, crime and antisocial behaviour still blights some town and city centres, particularly at weekends, holiday periods and in the evening when alcohol can often play a role in violence and disorder.
"That can be even more acute in the run up to the festive season.
"This should be a time for all people to come together and celebrate - not a time to come together and fight.
"Alcohol is sadly a factor in that and this extra funding should help authorities to minimise the impact of excessive drinking.
"This complements our other action on alcohol - including tackling binge drinking through the Licensing Act, promoting sensible drinking through education and campaigns such as Know the Score and Don't Push It and investing £20 million over 2005-07 for alcohol treatment and rehabilitation.
"This additional funding will enable local agencies to build on the existing community safety initiatives, focusing on those areas where there are large numbers of people out and enjoying the centres of their communities."
The allocations are:
- Clackmannanshire Community Safety Partnership (Alloa) - £40,000
- East Ayrshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Kilmarnock) - £40,000
- Inverclyde Council Community Safety Partnership (Greenock) - £40,000
- North Ayrshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Irvine) - £40,000
- North Lanarkshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Coatbridge) - £40,000
- Renfrewshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Paisley) - £40,000
- South Lanarkshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Hamilton) - £40,000
- West Dunbartonshire Council Community Safety Partnership (Dumbarton, Balloch and Clydebank) - £40,000
- Aberdeen Community Safety Partnership - £60,000
- Dundee Community Safety Partnership - £60,000
- Edinburgh Community Safety Partnership - £60,000
- Glasgow Community Safety Partnership - £100,000
The Safer Scotland roadshow will be visiting all 12 CSP areas that are receiving the additional funding. The roadshow truck will be staffed by CSP representatives such as ASB co-ordinators, police and fire officers. Members of the public will be able to get information and tips on how to keep safe this winter, including how to get home quickly and safely after nights out in town.
The roadshow will visit:
- Dumbarton today
- Paisley Dec 12
- Greenock Dec 13
- Irvine Dec 14
- Kilmarnock Dec 15
- Glasgow Dec 16
- Coatbridge Dec 17
- Hamilton Dec 18
- Edinburgh Dec 19
- Alloa Dec 20
- Dundee Dec 21
- Aberdeen Dec 22