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Sail project celebrates a year of reducing crime and disorder in Sunderland city centre.
Sunderland Echo
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06/12/2023
Sunderland Altogether Improving Lives brings together partner agencies under one roof, with the aim of making a real and lasting difference to people's lives.
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Neil Hall is the Community Chief Inspector with Northumbria Police.
00:03
Obviously, police priorities are a matter of public interest. Some people might say
00:09
that you should be going after the thefts, the robberies. This is all about
00:15
community policing. How important is that?
00:17
Yeah, it was vitally important. Community policing is dictated by what the community tell us they need.
00:24
I think in this instance with the SAIL team, we engaged lots with the stakeholders in Sunderland City Centre
00:30
who all told us that there was a big problem with youth ASB, with adult alcohol-related ASB in the city centre.
00:38
So we felt as a mobility agency that we needed a dedicated police and partner presence in the city centre
00:44
to combat those issues. So I think you talked about thefts, that's obviously something that is collateral
00:50
to the issues we've been facing and obviously we'll react to anything that happens in the city centre.
00:55
And what's the feedback been?
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The feedback has been incredibly positive. I think the data tells us that there's been reductions in reporting.
01:04
So, public disorder, commercial burglaries, street drinking, rowdy and inconstant behaviour, it's all halved in reporting.
01:14
So that's great. The most important thing is the feedback we've had from the community
01:18
who are telling us that it feels safer, it's a better place to visit, work.
01:22
And that for me is probably more important because that tells us that actually we're making a difference.
01:28
Councillor Graham Miller is the leader of Sunderland City Council. What's the thinking behind SAIL?
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The thinking behind SAIL is to make the city centre environment safe.
01:39
We're trying to bring the public, our residents, back into the city centre by bringing forward pubs, restaurants,
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cafes, support, the auditorium and the fire station, all the new entertainment that people have been asking for.
01:56
And if we don't bring in SAIL or something like it, we have an anti-social behaviour problem
02:02
and a low-level crime issue in the city centre.
02:05
So SAIL was brought in to deal with that and it has done a fantastic job of that when you look at the numbers dropping.
02:12
So that's why it's important.
02:16
Thornmouth Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness is here in Sunderland City Centre. What's the SAIL project about?
02:21
It's all about making Sunderland City Centre as safe as we can make it.
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We think that everybody deserves to feel safe when they move around.
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We want Sunderland to thrive and this approach brings everyone together to tackle everything from crime and anti-social behaviour
02:36
to street cleansing and prevention of crime and anti-social behaviour.
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And it's working, we're seeing absolutely brilliant results and we're seeing people feel more confident.
02:45
And that low-level disorder can have a real impact on quality of life can't it?
02:49
It does. Low-level disorder does have an impact on quality of life.
02:53
It impacts on whether people come into town or not, it impacts on whether people leave the house or not.
02:59
These are really, really big things and so seeing a reduction of around 80% in that behaviour is huge for Sunderland
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and people are telling us they feel safer.
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