What happens at a Safer Neighbourhood meeting?

A Safer Neighbourhood Neighbourhood Forum Meeting

Safer Neighbourhoods gives you the opportunity to set the agenda in your area and help implement lasting solutions.

Throughout the year your Safer Neighbourhood team attends a variety of open public sessions. These meetings give the community a chance to meet their local officers in an informal setting, presenting the opportunity for residents to bring up any concerns they may have or to simply make suggestions and comments.

These meetings can take two general formats: a Neighbourhood Panel Meeting or a Safer Neighbourhood Surgery.

Neighbourhood Panel Meetings

Neighbourhood Panel Meetings allow the public to raise and discuss any issues or problems within the area.

Panels can be made up of police officers, PCSOs, Special Constables and partnership members such as councillors, head teachers, park wardens and housing officers. Local volunteers, such as Neighbourhood Watch and Key Individual Network members, play an important part too.

The public are consulted on what they feel the main issues are in their area, such as anti-social behaviour or nuisance vehicles. The panel members then prioritise these issues for the next three months and set about tackling them.

At the following meeting the public feed back on how they feel the priorities have been dealt with in a rolling cycle of consultation.

The general public are welcome to attend the panel meeting to voice their concerns or to learn more about neighbourhood policing.

Safer Neighbourhood Surgery

In-between the Neighbourhood Panel Meetings your Safer Neighbourhood team may hold a surgery at various public locations - such as a library or local supermarket - so that members of the public can find out more about their team and any local issues they may have.

Any comments received during these informal drop-in sessions will then be fed into the Neighbourhood Panel meetings for discussion.