Safer Essex is the statutory county-wide Strategy Group for community safety, bringing together partners from across Essex, Southend, and Thurrock to coordinate the partnership response to community safety issues. Each District/City/Borough/Unitary council area in Essex also has its own Community Safety Partnership.
Every year, Community Safety Partnerships are required to carry out an assessment of crime and anti-social behaviour in the area and agree on a partnership plan that sets out their priorities and how they will address them. In doing so, they are also required to ensure that the views of their local communities are fed into this.
In 2025, Safer Essex continues to build on the success of its first Community Safety Survey launched in 2023. The survey aimed to help the Community Safety Partnerships gain the views of their communities in a way that increased engagement and enabled comparison across Greater Essex. The insights from the survey have informed the Community Safety Agreement and workplan for Safer Essex for 2026/27.
The Community Safety Survey 2024 can be found here (Safer Essex Community Safety Survey 2024 | Essex Open Data) , along with the recent Hate Crime Research 2024.
