Council leaders have backed a new Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy to help make Tendring a safer place for residents, businesses and visitors.

The strategy, which has been put together in collaboration with the Tendring Community Safety Partnership (CSP), outlines a framework for reducing crime and disorder over the next three years, formalising the collaborative efforts between the CSP and the council’s Community Safety Team.

The key themes and priorities include addressing the underlying factors contributing to anti-social behaviour, focusing on violence against women and girls and domestic abuse, combating gang-related activities and county lines operations and responding to issues such as shoplifting, vehicle crime, arson, and criminal damage.

The strategy will be recommended to full council for adoption as part of TDC’s Policy Framework.

Councillor Peter Kotz, TDC Cabinet Member for Assets and Community Safety and Chairman of the Tendring Community Safety and Health and Wellbeing Board, welcomed the Cabinet’s support for the strategy.

“Through working together, TDC and the CSP have achieved many successes in reducing crime, disorder and ASB, protecting those who are vulnerable and making Tendring safe and secure for residents, businesses and visitors,” he said.

“Tackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for the Central Government and it is also forefront of the CSP’s agenda. Our ambition is to increase support for victims and survivors, increase the number of perpetrators brought to justice and reduce the prevalence of violence against women and girls.”

The council’s Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny Committee was told earlier this year that overall crime in the district was down 2.9% between October 2023 and September last year, while anti-social behaviour was down 5.1%.

The Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy document can be seen here.