Wealden is one of the safest places to live, work and learn in the country. The Safer Wealden Partnership is working hard to keep it that way and indeed make it even safer.
The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act sets out the statutory requirements for responsible authorities to work together with other local agencies, organisations, and people, to develop and deliver strategies to tackle crime and disorder and help create safer communities. These statutory partnerships are known as Community Safety Partnerships (CSP). In Wealden, the CSP is the Safer Wealden Partnership. The partnership meets three times a year
Our aim is simple: Improving people’s lives in Wealden’s Communities by working in partnership to reduce the levels of crime and anti-social behaviour and to manage the fear of crime.
The Safer Wealden Partnership includes representatives from the following agencies:
- Wealden District Council
- East Sussex County Council
- East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
- Sussex Police (external link)
- The office for the Police and Crime Commissioner
- Wealden District Association of Local Councils (WDALC)
- Education
Safer Wealden Partnership is required to refresh its priorities on an annual basis. The partnership does this by conferring with key members and agreeing on a list of priorities to focus on for the year ahead. The priorities for 2024/25 are:
- Working to ensure local people feel safe and secure and reducing the fear of crime
- Working together to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on Wealden’s roads and to improve road safety awareness
- Working to protect and divert young people away from crime and anti-social behaviour
- To work in partnership to reduce incidents of anti-social behaviour
- Working to reduce acquisitive crime
- Working with partners to understand the impact of serious violence in the district and begin work to reduce it
These are combined with other community safety partnership’s priorities across East Sussex to form the East Sussex Safer Communities Partnerships’ Business Plan .
Business Crime – DISC
The Safer Wealden Partnership provides funding for DISC to operate within the district. DISC is an online platform which allows business owners and staff, on an invitation basis, to report incidents of shoplifting and anti-social behaviour from within their stores, directly to police. In Wealden, DISC operates under the scheme name of the Wealden Business Crime Partnership. To learn more about how the scheme operates email das@littoralis.com with your questions.
To sign-up your business and become part of the fight against acquisitive crime, please contact the scheme’s administrator via email das@littoralis.com and provide the following information:
Business name – Contact Name – Contact Phone – Email address – Reporting (business) location: Crowborough, Forest Row, Hailsham, Heathfield & Horam, Uckfield.
Antisocial Behaviour
Find out more about Antisocial behaviour.
Domestic Violence
If you feel you have been a victim of domestic violence, there is help available.
Hate Crime
Information on what to do if you have been a victim of a hate incident or hate crime in East Sussex.
Joint Action Group
This operational group meets monthly to look at and clarify action on any current or emerging threats and risks to community safety from across the District.
Paws on Watch
If you are a responsible dog owner and live or walk your dog somewhere in the Wealden area, learn how you help to make your area safer.
Prevent
Members of the Safer Wealden Partnership sit on the East Sussex Prevent Board which assess the county-wide risk of people being drawn into terrorism , and co-ordinates Prevent activity in line with the requirements of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.
Road Safety
Information on setting up a Speed Watch scheme in your neighbourhood and see what our Road Safety Action Group’s initiatives are in our area.