The Safer Streets summer town centre initiative will run from Monday 30th June until Tuesday 30th September 2025 in over 500 town centres and high streets across England and Wales.
The list of town centres that have signed up to the Safer Streets summer initiative is available on the Home Office website.
The focus of the Safer Streets summer town centre initiative is visibility, prevention and enforcement. Plans include increased visible town centre policing and ramping up the use of targeted enforcement powers against troublemakers – including banning perpetrators from hotspots.
It is also about what can be delivered in partnership with councils, schools, health services, business, transport and community organisations.
The overarching aim is to support town centres to be vibrant places where people want to live, work and spend time, and restore faith in community policing after years of declining police officer presence on Britain’s streets.
The summer initiative will also support young people, making sure there are activities across the 500 towns for young people to be involved in throughout the holidays.
Initiatives taking place this summer include:
o In Humberside, police are using real-time mapping to deliver dynamic patrols to target emerging problem locations while reassuring local communities.
o In Devon and Cornwall, police are embedding specialist anti-social behaviour lawyers to fast-track enforcement activity.
o In Derbyshire, police have developed a Night Time Economy Charter to help deliver consistent proactive policing and coordinated management across the four largest local town centres.
o In Wales, Dyfed-Powys Police are targeting seasonal, tourist towns through early police visibility, deterrence and community reassurance, and
o In Nottinghamshire, police have introduced a new diversionary intervention programme for Out of Court Resolutions with conditions attached for problem offenders.
For further information about the 2025 Safer Streets initiative, please click on this link to GOV.UK.
