Core Activities of the Group
The principal activities of the Group are:
To help ensure that members of the community are aware of current threat levels with regard to public safety
To help prevent individuals from becoming victims of crime or anti-social behaviour by ensuring that, through the activities of the Society, community awareness of advice (which may be based on that given by the emergency services and others such as local council authorities, Neighbourhood Watch, The Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Trading Standards, voluntary groups and social services) is enhanced. The main areas of concern are:
Burglaries, robberies, thefts, vandalism, anti-social behaviour and assaults
Telephone and online scammers and fraudsters (all levels of threat including international)
Consumer protection, particularly with regard to cold calling/door-to-door salesmen
Road safety and traffic discipline
In order to achieve this every two months the Group collates information from divers sources and summarises it in the form of a report to the Committee; others are then asked to ensure that relevant content from these reports finds its way to the Society’s members via the Society's Newsletter, the website, the Chairman’s Email Newsletter and the Society’s meetings
To provide the community with news of the activities of the local police, the Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service and other emergency services; to liaise with these services and with Herfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner as appropriate
To promote information regarding safety in the home with particular concern for the needs of the elderly and other vulnerable members of the community
To monitor crime in the town from limited independent sources in order to compare police statistics with public perceptions (the Crime Survey for England and Wales does likewise at the national level); this addresses concern at the national level, expressed with increasing frequency, that some crimes may be seriously underreported.
