Contents

  1. Foreword to the Bexley Community Safety Partnership Strategy
  2. What is the Community Safety Partnership?
  3. Achievements from the 2022 to 2025 strategy
  4. Key legislation
  5. Joint strategic assessment 2025
  6. What does the JSA tell us?
  7. Our community
  8. Community safety survey results 2024
  9. BCSP priorities 2025 to 2028
  10. Principals and cross-cutting themes
  11. Priority 1: serious violence
  12. Priority 2: domestic abuse
  13. Priority 3: anti-social behaviour
  14. Priority 4: community reassurance
  15. Working in partnership
  16. Delivery plan and measuring success
  17. Further information

3. Achievements from the 2022 to 2025 strategy

In the 2022 to 2025 BCSP Strategy, we set the below priorities:

  1. safeguard and support victims and families of domestic abuse and hate crime
  2. tackle identified anti-social behaviour in our communities
  3. continue to reduce residential burglary and its impact on the community
  4. early intervention to safeguard people against violence crimes
  5. reduce substance misuse related to crime and anti-social behaviour

We know that all of the above objectives are not something we can achieve in just three years, but we have made significant progress and are committed to continuing this work.

Key achievements toward these priorities in the last three years are:

  • we recruited a Local Authority Hate Crime and Violence against Women and Girls Coordinator, and Police VAWG and Hate Crime liaison officers. Together, they provided information, awareness and support to victims of hate crime and all forms of VAWG
  • increased awareness and number of people who can utilise antisocial behaviour disruption tools in Bexley, and improved our triage processes to make sure the concerns get to to the right partner who can take action, quicker
  • Bexley has remained the one of the top 6 safest London Boroughs throughout, and has the lowest rate of burglary with and a 24% reduction in the last year alone
  • we have commissioned and delivered a number of community projects to identify and intervene earlier where there are risks of violent crimes, from diversionary activity programmes for young people, to enhanced rehabilitation programmes for low-level and first time offenders. We also work partnership to run crime-type focus weeks and enforcement activities in hotspot areas
  • we are a key partner in the Combatting Bexley Drugs Partnership and work with our commissioned services to make referrals where we are concerned about substance misuse