Safer Saltash provides continued support to communities

Safer Saltash facilitates and supports a co-ordinated multi-agency approach to community safety issues to improve feelings of safety and public reassurance, reduce the risk of harm to the community and protect vulnerable groups.  Safer Saltash involves community members in the work of the partnership and encourages social inclusion and community participation through being part of the problem solving process and having a sense of pride in Saltash.

Based on the evidence presented in the Saltash Town Profile and feedback from the Residents Survey, Safer Saltash has identified the following community safety priorities for the town:

Our priorities:

These community safety priorities are addressed through the live delivery plan.  Progress is measured through achievement of quarterly and annual milestones over the lifetime of the plan and key deliverables/outcomes are reported to the Safer Cornwall Partnership.

What we have achieved:

Safer Saltash continues to meet virtually every four weeks to ensure that regular dynamic intelligence and updates about emerging community safety, crime and antisocial behaviour across the town is fed in and acted upon. This year we have:

• continued to address pockets of antisocial behaviour in the town through a balance of support and enforcement measures;
• offered ‘Bystander’ training to staff from the licenced premises,
• targeted work at the Waterside to address specific concerns;
• delivered several environmental visual audits in various locations in the town. These audits involved a number of partners from a raft of different agencies, coming together to assess the physical space and agreeing actions to improve the area in line with situational crime prevention strategies;
• we have worked with civil enforcement partners to focus activity in hotspot locations;
• advocated for the implementation of a live monitored CCTV system in Saltash;
• worked in partnership with the local youth provision organisations and Saltash Community School to bring in improvements for young people and their families and facilitated the sharing of intelligence with organisations responsible for road safety.

During National Hate Crime Week in October 2023, Safer Saltash delivered a ‘Say NO to Hate Crime’ campaign with over 65 businesses, traders and organisations in the town.  Hundreds of windows in Saltash town centre, taxis and community buses are now displaying the Safer Cornwall ‘Say NO to Hate Crime’ sticker that also contains a QR code to the Devon and Cornwall Police reporting hate crime page.  This is the first stage of a wider hate crime initiative that will feature a celebration of diversity event in the New Year that will aim to bring together Saltash residents to celebrate difference through food, music and sport

Further information and advice

Housing and benefits

• Cornwall Housing support; Cornwall Housing
• For advice on benefits;Cornwall Council – Advice on benefits
• Individuals sleeping rough can contact the Cornwall Housing Options Team on 0300 1234 161 or drop into an Information Service (formerly called One Stop Shop).