CRIME PREVENTION & REDUCTION

Colchester has 2 key people who lead on crime reduction, community safety and quality of life issues. These people are:

Crime prevention embraces a wide range of many topics as you will find by exploring this significant section of our SCP website. But crime prevention is also about preventing yourself, family, visitor or business from getting conned, scammed or ripped off and looking at ways to ensure you have the information to stop you becoming a victim of crime.

The golden rule is that if it is to good to be true it usually is!

If there is a subject about crime reduction, cons/scams, rip offs, business crime or community safety that you would like to see included in this section or need advice about please contact the Community Safety Co-ordinator peter.carrington@colchester.gov.uk or by phone on 07946 232808.

Choose from a topic below

• Arson • Art & Antiques • ATM Cash Points • Bogus & Distraction Callers • Car Crime • Caravan Security • Child Care • Child Safety • Community Safety Alert • Computer Spyware • Computer Crime • Credit Cards • Crime Prevention • Cycle Theft • Date Rape • Drink Driving • Drink Spiking • Driving • Essex Police • Fake Crime Alerts • Farm Crime • Garden Crime • Going on Holiday • Home Security • ID Theft • Industrial Plant Machinery • Passports • Mobile Phones • Neighbourhood Watch • Performance Cars • Personal Safety • Pickpockets • Property Marking • Pub/Club Watch • Religious Premises • Reporting Incidents • Premises • Safer Christmas • Sat Nav Systems • Secure by Design • Security Products • Terrorism • Trading Standards • Wildlife Crime.