Latest news from PFCC Roger Hirst - 8th March 2024
Community Safety partners come together to share the many ways residents are being made safer in Essex
Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for Essex, hosted an audience of 250 invited guests at the Community Safety Conference.
The Expo, held last week at Boreham House, Chelmsford, brought together community safety partners, including Essex Police, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, the Violence and Vulnerability Unit, charities, community groups and council partners.
Among the speakers were Anna Firth, MP for Southend West, spoken word artist and youth worker Quinton Green and Julie Taylor, a bereaved grandmother fighting to protect people in Essex from knife crime.
PFCC Essex, MP and Council Leader visit Thurrock to see benefits of anti-social behaviour hotspot funding
Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, last week joined Dame Jackie Doyle-Price MP to view the impact anti-social behaviour hotspot funding has had on Lakeside shopping centre and Chafford Hundred Station.
In July last year the PFCC was able to invest an extra £1.1m in high-visibility patrols and targeted intervention to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) in 11 hotspots across Essex, later expanded to 13.
The area of Thurrock surrounding the Lakeside shopping centre and Chafford Hundred Station was one of 13 identified hotspots in Essex to receive a share of this funding.
The very latest year-on-year figures to the end of January show anti-social behaviour incidents in Thurrock district have decreased by 32%.
Response times, youth engagement and screening of current and future officers were issues discussed when Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, continued a busy schedule of public meetings in Harlow yesterday.
Roger was joined at the public meeting on Monday 4th March in the Moot House, The Stow, Harlow, by Ch Insp Paul Austin, Essex Police Harlow District Commander, Group Manager Steve Wintrip of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, Cllr Dan Swords, Leader of Harlow Council and Cllr John Steer, Portfolio Holder for Community at Harlow Council.
At the meeting audience members put questions to the panel on a range of issues including women’s representation in Essex Police and Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, the 101 telephone reporting service and memorials for officers from both services who lost their lives in the course of their duties.
