Safer Chelmsford Partnership
The Safer Chelmsford Partnership includes representatives from:
- Chelmsford City Council
- Essex County Council
- Essex Fire and Rescue
- Essex Police
- the Probation Service
- Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
- National Probation Service
- other public and voluntary organisations, including CHP, Crimestoppers and Chelmsford Neighbourhood Watch
By law, these agencies have a joint responsibility to work together to make Chelmsford a safe place to live, work and visit.
They look to address:
- crime and disorder
- substance misuse
- the reduction of re-offending
The One Chelmsford Board is the strategic group for the partnership, and meets quarterly. The group has overall strategic responsibility for delivering against the priorities.
The main focus for this priority is:
- gangs, drugs and county lines
- knife crime
- high harm
- night-time economy (NTE) disorder
The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding multi-agency intelligence sharing meetings, holding events and delivering projects and schemes.
Meetings
- Violence and Vulnerability Operations Board
- Behaviour Attendance Partnership
- Community Safety Partnership Hub Tasking
Events
- Crucial Crew
- Parent awareness sessions
- Nights of action
Projects and schemes
- Purple Flag Accreditation
- Pubwatch
- Behave or Be Banned
- Chelmsford SOS Bus
- Taxi Marshals
- Street Pastors
- A&E data sharing
- CCTV
- School awareness sessions
- StoryLab Project
- J9 Training
The main focus for this priority is:
- youth nuisance
- improving communication with our residents
- anti-social behaviour (ASB) associated with rough sleeping
The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding multi-agency intelligence sharing meetings, holding events and delivering projects and schemes.
Meetings
- ASB Housing Forum
- Mental Health Forum
Events
- Days of Action
Projects and schemes
- Public Space Protection Order
- Best Bar None
- Partnership intervention hub
- Bedding sweeps
The main focus areas for this priority are:
- emotional health and wellbeing
- social isolation
- suicide prevention
- proactive approach to those at risk of exploitation
- hate crime
- violence against women and girls
- poor mental health
- high risk domestic abuse
The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding multi-agency intelligence sharing meetings, holding events and delivering projects and schemes.
Meetings
- Essex Safeguarding Adults Board
- Essex Safeguarding Children Board
- Independent Advisory Group
- Missing and Child Exploitation Group
- Stay Safe Group
Events
- Older People's Safety Day
Projects and schemes
- Operation Henderson
- Hate Crime Incident Reporting Centres
- Junior Warden Scheme
- Emergency Planning and Resilience Volunteer training
The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding events such as:
- joint Rural Days of Action
- rural crime prevention
- attendance at Rural Crime Partnership