The Safer Chelmsford Partnership includes representatives from:

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: 

  • serious violence
  • gangs, drugs and county lines
  • knife crime
  • 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
  • Safer Chelmsford Partnership Tasking

Events

  • Nights of action

Projects and schemes

  • Purple Flag Accreditation
  • Pubwatch
  • Behave or Be Banned
  • Chelmsford SOS Bus
  • Taxi Marshals
  • A&E data sharing
  • CCTV
  • School awareness sessions

The main focus for this priority is:

  • youth nuisance
  • anti-social behaviour (ASB) associated with rough sleeping
  • supporting our residents to solve local issues

The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding multi-agency intelligence sharing meetings, holding events and delivering projects and schemes.

Meetings

  • Safer Chelmsford Partnership Tasking

Events

  • Days of Action
  • Nights of Action

Projects and schemes 

  • Public Space Protection Order
  • Behave or Be Banned
  • Bedding sweeps
  • Pubwatch
  • Townlink

The main focus areas for this priority are:

  • domestic abuse
  • sexual offenses
  • violence against women and girls
  • monitoring community tensions
  • mental health
  • social isolation
  • suicide prevention
  • proactive approach to those at risk of exploitation
  • hate crime

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
  • On Your Team
  • Make Space for Girls

Projects and schemes 

  • Operation Henderson
  • Hate Crime Incident Reporting Centres
  • Emergency Planning and Resilience Volunteer training
  • On Your Team
  • Women's Safety in our City

The Partnership is addressing this priority by holding events such as:

  • acquisitive crime
  • joint Rural Days of Action
  • rural crime prevention

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