This summer Colchester Community Policing Team will be carrying out “Stroll with a Patrol” which is a new police engagement initiative to not only listen to our communities, but to give our communities the opportunity to discuss and show us what concerns them most.
Tuesday 21st June 6PM Meet outside the Sun Inn DEDHAM.
A PC and PCSO from CPT will be at the meeting location to greet those who have attended. We will then undertake an hour (or more) foot patrol with partners and members of the public. During this, while the officers will have a rough route planned, we can divert and visit locations partners or members of the public raise as a concern in this area, this could be related to ASB, Road Traffic matters, or area’s they feel uncomfortable walking through, the list is endless (obviously we will not be stood outside people’s houses gathering intelligence on said property and this will be part of the initial brief given by officers). We are keen to use this to make people feel safer in their communities (VAWG) so want people to say they do not feel safe in an area, and we can visit it, discuss what could be done to make them feel safer, and then feed back to the relevant agency. From this we can utilise cadets, active citizens, parish councils, councillors, housing partners and CBCs MAD days to try and facilitate what we can, where we can. We will be keeping a full returns and audit on issues raised and who we “refer” the issues to. Some concerns could just relate to an overgrown hedge that if trimmed back would make communities feel safer and visiting the locations with people can give us a lot of contexts to the concerns.
In events of adverse weather – we will remain at the meeting point as a “street Meet” undercover to discuss any local issues and we will look to re-deploy the stroll with a patrol in September.