Community Protection Officers
The Community Protection Team is a uniformed service which was formed in August 2008. The team consists of two Team Leader and five Community Protection Officers.
The role of Community Protection Officer is to:
Engage in activities that promote early intervention, active citizenship, community resilience, empowerment and capacity building in relation to community safety issues. This includes the delivery of talks to local school children and community groups.
Community Protection Officers work in partnership with other council colleagues, officers from Police Scotland, members of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and a variety of community organisations. They undertake high-visibility patrols of housing estates, town centres and other public spaces with a view to preventing and detecting antisocial behaviour and crime.
Every Friday and Saturday evening between the hours of 6pm and 2:30am Community Protection Officers patrol areas affected by antisocial behaviour, assist in the monitoring of public space CCTV cameras and respond to calls received via the council’s Antisocial Behaviour helpline (01875 824 307).
The Community Protection Officers are also responsible for taking enforcement action in dog fouling, littering and fly-tipping cases. They also assist the council’s Dog Warden (Community Protection Officer) in collecting stray dogs and attending to dog barking complaints.