Safer Telford and Wrekin Partnership works towards improving your feeling of safety and reducing the fear of crime.

 

This web page aims to show you what the Partnership is doing to reduce the fear of crime and improve your standard of living, and remember crime is coming down.

 

Anti-Social Behaviour:

 

A special hotline has been launched by the Safer Telford & Wrekin Partnership to help tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) in your area. This is a major campaign to crack down on anti-social behaviour in Telford and Wrekin and has the backing of the Police, Telford and Wrekin Council, The Wrekin Housing Trust and other enforcement agencies and partners.

Nationally anti-social behaviour is perceived to be on a much larger scale than it is in reality. However, the fact is that it does affect people’s lives and this perception leads to fear. We are committed to tackling and eradicating anti-social behaviour in Telford and Wrekin.

We have also established a Joint ASB Unit between Telford and Wrekin Council, The Wrekin Housing Trust and the Police who are addressing and tackling ASB across the Borough.

To find out more about reporting ASB follow this link.

There are a number of projects that the Joint ASB Unit have been working on to find out more follow the below links:

• Fencing scheme to tackle anti social behaviour
• New safety scheme at Hadley Learning Community

 

Community Support Officers:

 

We have introduced Community Support Officers to the Borough. The Community Support Officers have a variety of roles - tackling low level disorder and anti-social behaviour and carrying out routine foot patrols to increase visibility, deter would-be criminals and in turn, bring reassurance to our communities.

Follow this link to find out more about the CSO Target Team.

 

Domestic Abuse:
 
Safer Telford and Wrekin Partnership in 2007 introduced Specialist Domestic Violence Courts and Telford Magistrates Court. The introduction of the Courts has been very successful, and have also been supported by 2 Independent Domestic Violence Advocates.

 

The Freedom Programme is also supported by the partnership.
The Programme is a 12 week programme that is open to any women who wishes to:

• Gain more confidence
• Recognise what domestic abuse is
• Help find support from other women and agencies
• Help to understand the beliefs held by abusive men, and which ones they have shared
• Look at effects on children

For more information please contact the domestic abuse co-ordinator on 01952 381920

 

Safer Night Campaign:

 

The Safer Nights Campaign is an example of partnership working in action the campaign included:

• Be Safe, Be Sensible Campaign which promotes safe and responsible drinking please follow this link to you Be Safe, Be Sensible web page
• Taxi marshalling in Wellington
• Sank.tuary offers people on a night out in Wellington a safe place to go, maybe whilst waiting for a taxi.  Sank.tuary is based in the community room at the Methodist Church.

To find out more visit www.sanktuary.co.uk 

 

Out of sight out of mind:

 

Our Out of sight out of mind campaign aims to remind residents across Telford and Wrekin not to leave valuable on display in their vehicles.  We run this throughout the year but also target peak times like Christmas in our local shopping areas.

To download a copy of the campaign poster follow this link

 

Business Crime:

 

The Partnership has developed the One Telford Safer Stronger Business Forum which brings together members of the business community together on an annual basis to look at any hotspot areas for business crime, share information and look at what businesses can do to prevent them from being targeted. If you would like more information on our One Telford Safer Stronger Business Forum please follow this link to our dedicated page.

 

Events

 

The Safer Communities Team attends many community events, giving advice and information on many key issues; look out for us at the Your Community Matters events taking place on the following dates:

 

Celebrate Safely Campaigns

 

Our Celebrate Safely Campaigns have been a recent success during the Halloween, Bonfire and Christmas periods.  These campaigns promoted having fun but acting responsibly with key safety messages.  Keep an eye out for our future Celebrate Safely Campaigns.

 

CCTV

 

There has been major improvements over the past 12 months to include the monitoring of the night time economy on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 

The Borough Towns Initiative has supported the Partnership to deliver comprehensive coverage of the new bus station in Wellington. 

Madeley also has seen vast improvements in CCTV coverage again due to the partnership working between Borough Towns Initiative, Parish Council and various partners across the Safer Telford and Wrekin Partnership.

Recently we have enhanced the mobile CCTV cameras working in partnership with the police to purchase 3 new WIFI cameras, which can be deployed short term to hot spot areas across the Borough.

 

CCTV provides not only the opportunity to detect and prevent anti-social behaviour and crime, but to provide reassurance to local residents.