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.
You can view a summary of the partnership's priorities below, or you can download the full Safer Chelmsford Partnership Strategy 2021/22.
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