Community Safety Fora

Mid Beds Community Safety Partnership brings together Mid Beds District Council, Beds Police, Beds & Luton Fire & Rescue Service, Beds Police Authority, Aragon Housing Association and Bedfordshire County Council, to tackle crime and anti social behaviour in Mid Bedfordshire through the delivery of a 3 year Partnership Plan. This Plan has been produced through the assessment of those community safety related issues affecting the District as a whole, taking public concerns into account.

While it’s widely acknowledged that working in partnership brings benefits when tackling issues of common concern across the District, we know that we can also have a real impact at a local level. Local communities only feel safe when the specific issues of concern to them are addressed.

To bring the focus of the Partnership to a very local level in our Towns and Villages we aim to launch a Community Safety Forum in every local area. These meetings are supported by our local Partnership officers who together comprise a ‘Safer Neighbourhood Team’. Initially these Fora will be piloted in the areas of Ampthill and Biggleswade, which are advertised locally and held in the evenings, every three months. See the following links for more information:

• Ampthill Community Safety Forum
• Biggleswade Community Safety Forum

Have Your Say

Members of the Public are actively encouraged to come along to the respective meetings, but if they are unable to attend, they can contact Rob Parsons on 01462 611120.

Each meeting aims to:

• provide an opportunity for local residents who are concerned with crime, anti social behaviour, or any community safety related issue in their local community; to raise these concerns first-hand to local representatives from the agencies that form the Community Safety Partnership.
• Provide the community with information on the current local work of the Partnership’s agencies
• Seek Public support in tackling local issues
• Share the results of other recent local Public community safety consultation

The top three local priorities in each area will be agreed at each meeting and these will be the subject of the Partnership’s work with support from the Public over the next three months.
As the meetings develop and progress is made against these priorities, Partnership officers will provide updates and feedback at subsequent meetings.