PCC Clare Moody urges you to take her survey and have your say on police delivery and funding
There are only five weeks left to do the Police and Crime Plan survey and give your views on how your local police service should be delivered and funded.
Clare Moody, Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Avon and Somerset, is consulting with you on her draft Police and Crime Plan and its five priorities. We are now halfway through our consultation period.
PCC Clare Moody also wants your views on how much extra you are willing to pay in your council tax bill next year to fund local policing.
Visit our website page here and do the survey online now. The consultation closes on October 21st
Agreeing a Police and Crime Plan is one of the legal duties of a PCC, it provides the strategic direction, or blueprint, for the police service area they oversee.
The survey asks you what you think of PCC Clare Moody’s five priority areas and her draft plan and your ideas on how the police and partners can deliver them.
Clare said: “I spent many months out and about, talking and listening to local people, during my campaign to be your police and crime commissioner.
“Since being elected, I have made it a priority to continue meeting and engaging with local people. I have formed my draft Plan priorities based on all the informative conversations I’ve had during meetings with local communities, the police, partners, services and practitioners.
“This consultation is on my draft Plan. I want to know what you think of the Plan, but more importantly I want your ideas about how the police and partners can actually deliver against my priorities to make a real difference that people can see and feel.”
PCC Clare Moody’s five priorities are:
- Strengthening neighbourhood policing to provide a visible police presence, engage with communities, and tackle ASB.
- Reducing violent crime with a focus on male violence against women and girls, and serious youth violence.
- Preventing crime, working together with other organisations and the public to build safer communities.
- Supporting victims of crime to get the help they need when they need it.
- Improving the standards of policing so that people receive a fair and effective service.
In addition, the survey will ask you to say how much extra, if any, you are willing to pay on the policing part of your council tax bill next year (2025/2026) to fund local policing.
Around 57% of the police budget comes from central government, the other 43% is raised from the policing part of your annual council tax bill, known as the policing precept.
Every year a key legal duty of the PCC is to consult local people on an increase to the annual council tax bill to fund local police services.
The consultation takes place until 21 October and there are several ways you can take part in the survey.
You can attend one of PCC Clare’s remaining Public Forums.
They take place in:
- Bristol Sparks in Broadmead on September 17 from 6pm to 7.30pm
- Weston-super-Mare Weston Museum on October 1 from 6pm to 7:30pm
- Yeovil Yeovil Town Football Club on October 9 from 6pm to 7.30pm
With forums already successfully run in South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset and Taunton.
We are conducting a range of focus groups to talk to people who are under-represented or lack confidence in policing. There will also be a postal survey issued to some households across Avon and Somerset.
Take part in the consultation and have your say www.avonandsomerset-pcc.gov.uk/about/police-crime-plan24-29