Community Partnerships

The public have a fundamental role at the heart of policing in this country.

The police cannot do their job without engagement and participation from every part of every community, which includes partner agencies across the public health and safety sector. It is fundamental to the principles of policing by consent.

Our areas of focus

Increasing accessibility to policing in both urban and rural areas

helping communities take ownership of their areas by strengthening relationships with Neighbourhood Watch, Speedwatch schemes and volunteer groups;
reinvigorating engagement with community groups by using both traditional and digital methods; and
improving how volunteers, such as Special Constables, are used within policing.

Increasing the visibility of policing in both urban and rural areas

providing police officers with technology to allow them to spend more time on the frontline and less time on paperwork; and
joining forces with partners to collectively increase visibility through new modes of working.

Influencing local agendas

Health and Wellbeing Board

PCC Stephen Mold currently sits on the county’s Health and Wellbeing Board, where he provides a voice for policing around the impact and importance of these areas.

Commissioner Mold ensures that the impacts on policing from the wellbeing of people in the county is fully understood and that collectively issues that impact on crime can be dealt with together.