Reducing violence and serious harm is priority number 2 in my new #MakingWiltshireSafer Police and Crime Plan. 

This priority is essential to safeguarding the most vulnerable members of society, and we must address and mitigate the most serious forms of crime, particularly those that cause significant harm to individuals and the community.  

To deliver a police service that reduces violence and serious harm I will work with the Chief Constable and partners to deliver these commitments in the areas of violence reduction, violence against women and girls and domestic abuse, child abuse and child exploitation, and organised crime, county lines, and exploitation. 

My Police and Crime Plan supports the delivery of our obligations under the Serious Violence Duty, bringing together partners to take a public health approach to reducing and preventing violence in our communities, including knife crime and gang related violence.  

I will also ensure that Wiltshire Police responses are trauma informed with a child-first approach taken, as well as continuing to work with our Community Safety Partnerships in Wiltshire and Swindon to better understand the causes of serious harm so we can tackle the symptoms and consequences in a comprehensive manner, and to protect and prevent young and vulnerable people from harm caused through serious, organised, criminality.