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COUNCILLORS are set to get extra training covering areas including hate crime and preventing the radicalisation of young people, it has been decided.

CUMBERLAND Council, alongside colleagues in the Cumberland Safety Partnership, is deciding how it will tackle domestic abuse.

The Cumberland Community Safety Partnership is drafting a really important document that sets out our approach to tackling domestic abuse.

Officers on dedicated Operation Enhance hotspot patrols made a dozen arrests whilst working to reduce anti-social behaviour and serious violence around the county.

An innovative new Community Alcohol Partnership highlighting the risks of underage drinking to children and young people is to be expanded to reach more children and young people across Cumberland.

Councils will now be able to take stronger action over illegal wild camping in the Lake District.

A partnership set up to tackle underage drinking in Workington has been given an award for its work.

A police team from Wales has visited Cumberland to learn from the success of Local Focus Hubs.

Cumbria’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (Commissioner) David Allen visited Cumberland’s Safeguarding Hub at Cumbria House in Carlisle this week, to see first-hand the effective partnership working between the Police, Housing, Health, Adult and Children’s Social Care teams.

Cumberland Council is launching an ambitious new campaign to tackle the littering problem that affects communities across the area.