Woking crime crackdown — PCC Lisa Townsend and MP Will Forster on plans to tackle ASB and shoplifting - video Dailymotion

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00:00So the Surrey Summer Safer Streets initiative has been going really really well we've been

00:04working with partners including obviously the local borough council there's been some work as

00:08well with with county council also with adult social care and other services and it's really

00:13really good to be working today with our local MP Will Forster talking to the police force and

00:18talking to obviously the policing minister about the difference that visible policing is making

00:24out and about in our community talking to local shopkeepers as well and I know that Will's got a

00:28lot of experience as well with speaking to constituents speaking to local businesses about

00:32it yes so I'm the former deputy leader of Wokingborough council and the fact that your neighbourhood team

00:36from the police is co-located with the council really ensures that the council and the police

00:40work so well together trying to keep working as safe as it possibly can so policing and crime isn't

00:45the top issue in my postbag there are other issues there but it is a concern to people and we've had

00:50a really good tour around the town centre today yeah so as police and crime commissioner obviously

00:54policing and crime is the issue that people come and talk to me about whether it's at residence

00:58meetings whether it's hearing from obviously MPs like Will and other MPs in the county and I know

01:03that anti-social behaviour is something that people are worried about they are concerned about it but

01:08it's why initiatives like this are so important because I know that seeing police out and about on

01:11the streets it does deal with it it's a really really good preventative tool and it means that

01:16people are reassured as well by seeing that presence and also understanding that if something does happen

01:21they can come and report it to police and see something done about it

01:25the council are a really really important and crucial part of our partnership work that we do

01:30within Surrey police and as PCC and obviously Will as a former councillor has an awful lot of experience

01:35around this but we couldn't do it without the council because so many of the problems that we've

01:38been talking about everything from serious violence right the way down to anti-social behaviour has got more

01:43than just a policing requirement to it if we're going to prevent these crimes and we think you know we think about

01:48domestic abuse as well or serious sexual abuse all of these things require a real partnership approach

01:53well you did an awful lot of work when you were on the council around these areas as well

01:56yeah no so the police and the council do work really well together and Woking and Surrey is

02:01very safe but that's thanks to a lot of the colleagues that that work for you have done

02:06thank you

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