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Community Safety
COMMUNITY SAFETY
Safety means different things to different people. It is not just about the level of crime in our community. It is also about how people feel in the community and about developing and implementing programs that can also prevent unintentional injury.
To improve community safety all sections of the community need to work together to create a safer environment in which to work, live and play. Auburn Council works in partnership with the local community, police and other organisations to address crime prevention and community safety issues of significance to the local area.
Council's Community Safety and Education Officer works towards ensuring a safer Auburn community through providing information, consulting with the local community and developing innovative community safety programs. For more information, contact Council's Community Safety and Education Officer on 9735 1209.
Please read on for some ways you can reduce the chance and impact of crime, as well as increase your general level and feeling of safety:
Community Safety and Education: The Community Safety and Education Officer is able to organise educational workshops on various safety issues. Please contact if you would like to arrange for a community safety workshop for your target group. Click here for a training needs assessment.
REGO PLATE LOCK
Rego Plate Locking Screws are one way screws that fasten your license plates to your car and cannot be removed except by an authorised remover (locally: myself and the police). This strategy is to reduce the number of license plates being stolen in Auburn and used for crimes such as robbery and petrol theft.
If you would like a set, just make contact with me to let me know your vehicle type and registration, I will also need your contact details (phone and address). Call me on 9735 1209 to organise a time to meet. The screws are easy to install you just need a screwdriver.
ADVANTAGES OF REGO-PLATE-LOCK
For You: Prevention of:
· removal, loss or theft of Registration Plates,
· inconvenience of applying for and cost of new Registration Plates
· the need to advise Insurance companies of loss
· owner not being able to use vehicle without Registration Plates
For the Community: A reduction in crime - Rego Plate Locking Screws can act as a deterrent for thieves making the stealing of license plates to use in criminal acts such as robbery and petrol fraud becomes harder.
COMMUNITY SAFETY AUDITS
In partnership with Auburn Police, Auburn Council recently conducted a
Community Safety Audit of the area surrounding
Lidcombe train station. Please click
here for the report on recomendations and findings.
The next Community Safety Audit is scheduled for November 26th and will be conducted in Regents Park. We will meet in the Regents Park Community Centre at 7.30pm. Please make contact if you are interested to participate 9735 1209.
The Living Library Program (Partnership project with Auburn Hospital)
Auburn Living Library is a community-based initiative designed to break down cultural barriers and encourage harmony and cultural understanding in the community. A Living Library works just like a normal library, where readers come to borrow a book, and then return their book to the library. The only difference is that the books in a Living Library are people, and the readers and books enter into a personal conversation.
Living Libraries provide a safe and friendly environment where you can meet people with unusual occupations and lifestyles or from different social, religious or ethnic backgrounds.
Auburn Living Library aims to work on three different levels and to help people find information and/or experience a different life (through speaking to Living Books) in three areas:
- Cultural Understanding/Exchange
- Community Safety
- Health Information
The final Auburn Living Library date in 2009 is :
- Friday 30 October
The sessions are held from 2-4pm and 4-6pm in the Exhibition Gallery. All welcome! Please click here for more information.
Stop Domestic Violence Action Group (SDVAG)
The Stop Domestic Violence Action Group (SDVAG), formerly titled the GMDVAG, meet monthly at Council to address issues regarding domestic violence in the Auburn Community. The group is made up of representatives from various local and government organisations.
The groups strategic framework is as follows:
Goal/Mission:
The ‘Stop Domestic Violence Action Group’ (SDVAG) aims at facilitating early intervention and prevention of domestic and family violence through action based partnerships and the application of multi-faceted and multi-level approaches.
Plan of Action:
Result-oriented the SDVAG is striving to deliver responsive and tangible outcomes throughout broad based networking, a holistic approach and an integrated model of strategies. These are articulated around 3 components: (1) Community Education and Awareness (empowering), (2) Action Research (documenting) and, (3) Advocacy (resourcing).
The SDVAG will target the most vulnerable elements of the Auburn and Strathfield Local Government Areas (LGAs) population – especially (yet not exclusively) Culturally and Linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities, and more particularly newly arrived migrants and refugees, both victims and perpetrators (incl. females, males and young people) and people at risk such as children.
Remaining meeting dates for 2009 are
- Wednesday 11th November 10am – 12pm
- Wednesday 9th December 10am – 12pm
Meetings are held in the Exhibition gallery (1st floor, Auburn Library) 1 Susan St, Civic Place, Auburn.
White Ribbon Day
(25th November)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Show your support wear a white ribbon! Make Violence towards women a thing of the past!!
For more information regarding community safety please contactLinda Boustani ph: 9735 1209 – linda.boustani@auburn.nsw.gov.au