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

11. Priority 1: serious violence

Serious violence is broadly defined as violence that results in serious physical harm or has the potential to cause serious harm. It is therefore an umbrella term that encompasses a number of crime types, including:

  • gang violence
  • knife crime
  • gun crime
  • drug crime
  • murder and manslaughter
  • kidnapping, abduction and false imprisonment
  • grievous and actual bodily harm
  • exploitation and modern slavery
  • violence against women and girls, including sexual offences and domestic abuse

Most of these crime types are uncommon in Bexley, however, the BCSP considers serious violence a priority area because where it does happen, it causes the highest level of harm to victims and impact on community safety.

The BCSP has a Serious Violence Strategy which outlines in more detail the work being done, and a serious violence working group who oversee delivery against that strategy.