Safer Neighbourhoods

Tim Newcomb is Colchester2020's Lead Partner for Creating safer neighbourhoods and stronger, inclusive communities.

This priority will focus on reducing the incidence of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour within Colchester, but will also concentrate on how people feel about these issues.

We will work with the police, the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and other partners on long term initiatives to reduce offending levels.

By encouraging local citizens to take part in these initiatives we aim to influence their perceptions of crime-related matters and improve their confidence in the police and local authority.

We aim work with partners to:

Make the town centre safer, particularly at night
Through leadership given to the Public Service Partnership, make our neighbourhoods cleaner and safer
Encourage residents to take responsibility by creating incentives for them to organise self-help to increase community spirit and pride.

Click here to view the action plan which sets out how we look to achieve these aims in more detail.