Making Wiltshire Safer
Wiltshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Philip Wilkinson has launched the next phase of his Police and Crime Plan consultation – and he still wants you to use your voice to influence it!
Part of the PCC’s role is to produce a Police and Crime Plan for the county.
Making Wiltshire Safer, directly informed by those who responded to his Use Your Voice survey, is now available for people to comment on in a draft format.
This draft plan sets out the PCC’s pledges and priorities for Wiltshire as well as being the blueprint for Wiltshire Police’s strategic policing and crime priorities until mid 2025.
The PCC received just under 3,000 survey respondents from residents, charities, community groups, councillors from across all local authorities alongside interested stakeholders like Neighbourhood Watch and the National Farmers’ Union.
The PCC’s Youth Commission has also been surveying young people in Wiltshire and feeding their information back into his plan. So far in excess of 1,000 young people have used their influence too.
Since his election, the PCC has been clear that his new police and crime plan should reflect the needs and priorities of all our communities.
So, once approved, the new Police and Crime Plan will ensure both the force and the PCC’s office are working towards the same goals in a joined-up, co-ordinated, approach and delivering what the community wants from its police force.
It also will be the way the PCC holds the Chief Constable to account for delivering these priorities – your priorities.
Here’s the timeline
The first part of the PCC’s Police and Crime development – Use Your Voice survey – has ended.
From now, the draft Police and Crime Plan will be presented to the Police and Crime Panel on December 16 and there’s still time for you to Use Your Voice and influence the plan.
You will be able to download a copy of the draft Police and Crime from December 20 and during January.
The PCC will also be holding eight invited stakeholder focus group sessions alongside four public debates on the draft plan in January. All feedback will be considered and will shape the final plan.
The plan is then finalised during February and bought back to the Police and Crime Panel in March before it is formally adopted and Wiltshire Police begin delivering against it.
It is vital that all parts of our communities’ voices are heard and you can still use your voice to make Wiltshire safer. Get involved by using one of the methods below.
Other ways to get involved
You can still influence the plan and have your say by:
1. Downloading a copy of the draft Police and Crime Plan
It is a work-in-progress and is not fully formatted but you are as up-to-date with the process as us and the members of Wiltshire’s Police and Crime Panel!
You can still influence those priorities and suggest where funding could be allocated. You can also say whether you support an increase in the policing precept part of the council tax.
2. Joining one of our online events
Throughout January, the PCC will be taking his draft plan to four public meetings. We had planned for these to be in person but due to the pandemic these will be held online via Facebook Live.
The meetings will be held on 6, 13, 17 and 26 January 2022, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
You can submit a question to be asked at the meeting here.
We will publicise these events on our digital channels and in the local media.