What is the Safer Streets campaign
Published
Tuesday 21 May, 2024
Updated
Sunday 16 June, 2024
The safety of our residents is of utmost importance to us.
We want everyone to feel safe whilst living, working and visiting our town centres and that is why we have been taking targeted action to tackle antisocial behaviour (ASB), violence against women and girls, and neighbourhood crime in the town centres of Sheerness and Sittingbourne.
Our ambitious Safer Streets project has, through education, youth provision funding, active intervention and other preventative measures, worked to combat the higher levels of crime we see in these town centres and high streets.
The initiatives include:
- Safer Streets marshals
- youth club funding
- CCTV cameras
- antisocial behaviour workshops with school
- gardening and seed club
- improving the lighting of public spaces and target hardening
- security app for vulnerable women
- active bystander training
By tackling the issues from multiple angles and targeting the root causes of violence against women and girls and antisocial behaviour, our campaign aims to have a tangible and long-lasting positive impact on our community.
We worked with the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, through the Community Safety Partnership, to secure £265,000 from the Government’s Safer Streets Fund, which is funding these initiatives.
It would have been ideal to be able to implement these measures across the borough, but for our bid to be successful we had to target Sittingbourne and Sheerness due to the narrow criteria for funding.
