Tackling violent crime and antisocial behaviour with more law enforcers on the streets will be the focus of the city's crime and safety partnership.

Officers from the county and city councils, the police, and representatives from the health authority were speaking yesterday at the launch of the new Community Safety Strategy for Oxford.

The three-year strategy has been produced after consultation with more than 1,500 residents. It showed that people were most concerned about violent crime, hate crime, burglary, car crime, and antisocial behaviour.

Oxford Safer Communities Partnership, made up of authorities including the police, councils, and health workers, also performed an audit of trends in crime and crime-reduction strategies over the last three years.

Supt Paul Sullivan, the Oxford area police commander, said that despite a reduction in crime figures, fear of crime, and particularly violent crime, was increasing because of less serious crime such as graffiti and antisocial behaviour.

He said: "The biggest thing for me is how we try to improve our local services in the neighbourhood.

"In terms of making people feel safer, it is about police and our partners being more visible."

The increased presence will be made by police community support officers (PCSOs) and council street wardens, working alongside existing police community beat officers.

,Mr Sullivan said four new PCSOs had already been appointed and would be deployed within the next month. Funding from the county council had also been promised to recruit more.

Bruce McLaren, manager of the county council's safer communities unit, said the culture of standing by and watching as crimes were committed also had to be tackled.

He said: "Everybody has a part to play in making communities safer. Nobody can afford to stand back and wait for somebody else to sort it out."

Susan Brown, city councillor and executive member for crime and community safety, said the recent eviction and conviction of Paul Coombes, a problem tenant on Wood Farm estate, was an example of communities and the authorities working together.

As reported in the Oxford Mail, the 40-year-old was given an Asbo on Tuesday, evicted from his city council flat in Wood Farm on Wednesday, and jailed for 28 days by magistrates on Thursday after breaching the conditions of his Asbo by going back onto the estate.