- Introduction.
- Education - Prevention - Investigation / Detection.
2.1 Education.
2.2 Prevention.
2.3 Investigation / Detection.
- Help us to help you and your Community.
- Initiatives.
4.1 Think......Abandoned Vehicles.
4.2 Operation Scrap It.
- Leaflets.
- Strategy.
- Contact.
- Links.
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Arson reduction Team
(From left to right:)
Environmental Crime Enforcement Officer Ken Foster,
Fire Service Station Manager Mark Marsden,
Investigation Dog Handler Watch Manager Sarah Jones,
Sam (an accelerant seeking spaniel),
Fire Service Watch Manager Sean Murphy,
Information and Administration Co-ordinator Ginny Bishop
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1. Introduction
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The Arson Reduction Team is an initiative to tackle Arson and is supported by East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Crime and Disorder Partnership Forum and the Arson Control Forum.
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The team members are :-
- Fire Service Fire Service Station Manager Mark Marsden
- Fire Investigation Dog Handler Watch Manager Sarah Jones
- Sam (an accelerant seeking spaniel)
- Information and Administration Co-ordinator Ginny Bishop
- Senior Environmental Crime Enforcement Officer Ken Foster
- Fire Service Watch Manager Sean Murphy
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2. Education - Prevention - Investigation / Detection.
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2.1 Education.
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- Arson reduction information is included in the Fire Safety Education Team's talks to schools (primary and secondary).
- The Team attends community and multi-agency public events. An example is the Eastbourne 999 weekend on the Western Lawns (30th June and 1st July 2007).
- Education of children who have, or might, offend is managed through the Fire Setters Advisors Scheme and through the Local Intervention for Fire Education (LIFE) Scheme.
- Improving East Sussex and Brighton & Hove intervention schemes with 'at risk' youths, through closer working with partners, to ensure they lead more positive lives.
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2.2 Prevention.
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- The Arson Reduction Team are linked in with the 6 Community Safety District Partnerships developed under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act.
- There is a focus on arson arising from the nuisance of fires involving rubbish and waste materials, abandoned vehicles and empty insecure buildings.
- The Arson Reduction Team identifies types of arson through research and improved data sharing protocols.
- Problem profiles and operations will be formulated to reduce incidents, including high visibility campaigns.
- The team identifies and reports the most effective way in which police and fire resources can be focused to reduce arson.
- The team support high visibility patrols in areas of increased risk.
- Crimestoppers Arson Alert boards are deployed at significant arson incidents, requesting information.
- Schools in East Sussex are offered a free joint arson audit inspection where a Crime Prevention Officer and Fire Officer attend together, a report is then produced giving advice on arson prevention. Self-assessment forms are available here for schools to use to carry out their own audit (Arson Risk Audit Form1 [pdf] / Arson Risk Audit Form 2 [pdf] / Arson Risk Audit Form 3 [pdf]).
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2.3 Investigation / Detection.
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- The Fire Investigation Dog Team attends fires where arson is suspected and is a key part of the Arson Reduction Team. Further information is available on the Fire Investigation Dog Team Page.
- At significant or repeated arson incidents, joint investigation is made by Fire Investigation Officers and Police Investigators and Scenes of Crime Teams, and when required Forensic Scientists.
- The ART supports all fire death incidents, fires where serious injuries have occurred and major property fires where five or more pumping appliances are attending.
- The Police and existing Fire Investigation Officers are able to seek advice and assistance at scenes, from the Arson Reduction Team, where an automatic response would not normally be made.
- Improvement of awareness and skills in fire investigation is being made through closer partnership working with the Sussex Police Scenes of Crime Department and the Forensic Science Service.
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3. Help us to help you and your Community.
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If you have any information about arson (deliberate fires) or any other crime please call Crimestoppers free and anonymously on 0800 555 111 or click on the logo to visit their web site.
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4. Initiatives.
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4.1 Think......Abandoned Vehicles.
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Operation Crackdown is an abandoned vehicle removal operation for Sussex, sponsored by East and West Sussex Fire and Rescue
Services, Sussex Police, DVLA and all Local Authorities. It uses Police powers to get abandoned vehicles removed quickly,
which reduces the likelihood of arson and criminal damage as well as making communities safer. Please click on the link to
report an abandoned car:- Sussex Police - Operation Crackdown
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4.2 Operation Scrap It - Brighton & Hove abandoned and untaxed vehicle enforcement operation.
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The team continues to participate in this operation to identify untaxed and abandoned vehicles in conjunction with the Local Authority, Police, DVLA and Trading Standards. This continued operation is significantly reducing opportunity for arson and other vehicle crime as well as visibly improving the communities within Brighton & Hove.
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5. Leaflets.
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Arson Alert Leaflet.
Details of the Crimestoppers service which you can call, anonymously, with information about someone deliberately starting fires. Click here [pdf - 808 KB] to view this leaflet.
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The following leaflets provide a valuable guide to the detection,
prevention and risk management of how to reduce the possibility
of arson. They are produced by the Arson Prevention Bureau and
available on the Publications section of their web site at (www.arsonpreventionbureau.org.uk/Publications).
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How to Combat Arson in Schools Leaflet.
This guide is addressed primarily at school governors, head teachers,
school premises managers, LEAs and local authority risk managers.
It aims to alert those responsible for school premises to the
continuing dangers of arson attacks on schools, and suggests means
by which such a potential can be reduced. This leaflet covers
prevention, detection and protection. Click
here [pdf] to view this leaflet
on the Arson Reduction Bureau web site.
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Juvenile Fire Setting: How to Reduce the Risk.
The term fire setting is well used by those in the fire industry
but perhaps not so well know to most of us. Widely used in the
United States and adopted generally as the accepted term meaning:
"people who start deliberate fires". This leaflets covers
the types of fire setters, reducing the risk and where to go for
help. Click
here [pdf] to view this leaflet
on the Arson Reduction Bureau web site.
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Car Fires: The Growing Problem and how to Help Extinguish it.
Every year in the UK around 102,000 road vehicles (or about 280
every single day) go up in flames and over 58 people die as a
result. This leaflet includes a check list of precautions to take
to protect your car. Click
here [pdf] to view this leaflet
on the Arson Reduction Bureau web site.
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Arson Alert for Shops and Stores.
The biggest fire risk in shops and stores is from fires begun
deliberately. Arson is an ever-present threat but one which you
as a shop owner or store manager can do much to control. This
leaflet includes 23 ways to stop your business becoming an arson
statistic. Click
here [pdf] to view this leaflet
on the Arson Reduction Bureau web site.
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Arson: The Major Fire Threat to Places of Worship.
Most of the fires in churches are begun deliberately. This leaflets covers risk assessment, security and good housekeeping.
Click here [pdf] to view this leaflet on the Arson Reduction Bureau web site.
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6. Strategy.
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Reducing Anti-Social Deliberate Fires Strategy 2007-10 [pdf 916 KB].
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This strategy was launched in October & November 2007 at three free seminars in the Hastings & Rother, Brighton & Hove City and Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden areas by promoting the aims of the strategy and partnership working with those who have been affected by arson attacks.
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For further information contact Ginny Bishop at the Arson Reduction Team ESFRS HQ 01323 462814 email virginia.bishop@esfrs.org
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7. Contact.
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If you require further advice or information from the Arson Reduction Team please contact us by email:- art@esfrs.org
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Or write to the team at :-
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East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service,
Arson Reduction Team, HQ,
20 Upperton Road, Eastbourne,
East Sussex, BN21 1EU.
01323 462144
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8. Links.
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There are a number of Arson and Crime Prevention links available
in the Links section of our web site (see the Navigation bar at
the bottom of this page). In addition following web sites provide
a good source of additional information :-
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