At a glance
Current 2026 position
Community safety priorities
Robbery, theft from motor vehicles, anti-social behaviour, and violence against women and girls.
July 2026 crime data
The website currently reports 31 violence/sexual offences, 26 ASB reports, 25 vehicle crime reports and 10 other theft reports for July.
Autumn Issue #1
The first Panel newsletter brings together policing contacts, priorities, crime context, safety advice and community information.
Purpose
Resident voice and accountability
The Panel exists to give Furzedown residents a place to raise concerns, hear from local policing and community-safety partners, help shape local priorities and follow what happens after issues are raised. The website supports this through meeting archive, Have Your Say form and You Said → We Raised → Response → Outcome format.
Priorities
What the Panel is focusing on
Robbery
Targeted patrols, school engagement and intelligence around key hotspots.
Theft from motor vehicles
Flexible intelligence-led patrols, including plain-clothes activity.
Anti-social behaviour
Prevention and enforcement with Council partners around local concerns.
Violence against women & girls
Prevention, safer public spaces, respectful attitudes and community action.
Communication & engagement
Keeping residents informed
Newsletter
The Autumn Issue #1 newsletter provides a printed route for residents who may not rely on social media or online channels.
Website & resident feedback
The website provides ongoing information, search, public actions, crime context, meeting records, a news archive and routes for residents to give feedback between meetings.
Crime context
Using data carefully
The Panel website retains the important distinction that the broad “violence and sexual offences” category does not mean every recorded offence is a sexual assault or domestic-abuse incident. Final annual reporting should continue to explain the limits of publicly available ward-level data rather than overstate what the figures show.
Governance & transparency
Building a public record
Meeting archive
Agendas, minutes and action records can be organised by year and clearly marked as pending, draft or approved.
public updates
Residents can see how concerns are raised and what follow-up is reported publicly.
Documents library
Newsletters, governance material and annual reports can remain available in one public place.
Year-end completion
What will be added before this becomes final
The final 2026 report should add confirmed totals such as meetings held, attendance, resident concerns received, actions completed, issues escalated, newsletters distributed, website reach and clearly evidenced outcomes. Those figures have deliberately not been invented in this live draft.