Community Safety

The Community Safety team provides a focus for the delivery of community safety activity and plays a co-ordinating role within the County Council and across Leicestershire in crime & disorder partnership working.

The role of the team includes:

Providing training and support to ensure all County Council services are working to make Leicestershire a safe place to live, work and visit.
Working with each of the 7 District/Borough Community Safety Partnerships to reduce crime and disorder locally across the County.
Working with organisations including; the police, fire service, probation, health service and voluntary bodies, to develop and deliver projects for safer communities.
Co-ordinating specific areas of Community Safety work across the County, including Domestic Violence Reduction and Hate Incident monitoring.

More information on the Council’s wider Community Safety work is outlined in the current Community Safety Plan

More information on other areas of crime & disorder:

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Local Community Safety Partnerships

Crime & Disorder Research

Policing in your area

Leicestershire County Council also supports CrimeStoppers

Community Safety

further information