Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Matt Storey is part of Cleveland’s Combating Drugs Partnership.
The partnership is now chaired and administered by Public Health South Tees.
The Partnership has produced a shared plan to deliver against the Government’s national objectives.
Members oversee the delivery and coordination of the Government’s From Harm to Hope drug strategy within the Cleveland Police area.
The strategy is a mix of help for individuals to recover and work to clamp down on the drugs’ supply chain. Its key objectives are to:
- Break drug supply chains
- Deliver a world class treatment and recovery system
- Achieve a shift in the demand for recreational drugs
The partnership’s membership is drawn from the criminal justice and health sectors.
Cleveland Combating Drugs Partnership Strategy 2023-2032 (application, 14MB)
From Harm to Hope
The Government’s From Harm to Hope strategy sets ambitious national targets for cutting the supply and misuse of drugs across England and Wales.
It also sets targets for better support to help addicts recover. Objectives include:
- Closing down an additional 2,000 County Lines supply chains within three years;
- Disrupting 6,400 activities of organised criminal gangs (OCGs;)
- Seizing additional cash and property gained as a result of drug-related criminal activity;
- Preventing up to 1,000 deaths from drugs’ misuse;
- Providing 54,500 high quality treatment places;
- Preventing up to 250,000 crimes committed as a result of illegal drug dealing or taking;
- Reducing drug use to a 30-year low over the next decade.