Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership

Priorities and Action Plan 2025/26

Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership – developing our priorities in the context of the Surrey wide strategy.

In two-tier local authority areas such as Surrey, there is a requirement for a County Strategy Group in order to bring together all district, borough and relevant partners responsible for community safety activity. In Surrey the Community Safety and Prevention Board performs this function.

One of its key tasks is to develop the Surrey Community Safety Agreement (CSA). This statutory document sets out how the responsible authorities will work together to identify and address shared priorities in relation to reducing crime and disorder.

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey sets out in its Police and Crime Plan for Surrey the areas that Surrey Police will focus on. Throughout the 2025 – 2028 Plan, there is a focus on improving partnership work to reduce harm and building safer, more resilient communities.

The MVCSP links into these Surrey-wide strategies. It also develops local priorities for local issues where it can add value.

A Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership (CSP) consultation ran from November to December 2024 to identify areas of concern among residents of Mole Valley and help shape the CSP’s local priorities and actions. It is planned to repeat the survey periodically so that the success of the CSP’s actions can be measured over time.

97 online responses and one hard copy response were received at the close of the consultation. The demographic questions identify that the majority were Mole Valley Residents, with a good geographical spread across the more urban parts of the district.

The results showed a small majority of people (55%) feel safe in Mole Valley, although also felt that crime and ASB had increased in the last year, and lacked confidence that they were being dealt with effectively.

Fly tipping, drug dealing and road safety were the top three concerns identified.

When asked about how well informed they were about the current local priorities, respondents did not generally feel well informed across all priority areas.

29% had been a victim of crime in the last year, with the highest type being vehicle crime, followed by bicycle theft, criminal damage and public order. 45% had been a victim of ASB, with the highest number suffering rowdy and nuisance behaviour and nuisance neighbours.

Mole Valley Community Safety Partnership Local Priorities 2025/2026

Protecting the Vulnerable

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police

Actions

To support the Rural Crime Team’s initiatives to tackle issues including livestock worrying, theft and poaching.
To work with local communities on rural crime issues

Outcomes

To increase sense of safety for rural communities

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police
Mole Valley District Council
Local Housing Providers

Actions

Provide the public with the knowledge of how to recognise hate crime and how to report it
Educational campaigns around recognising hate crime and how to challenge it
Promotion of schemes for supporting victims of hate crime
Training for colleagues to identify hate crimes where they are hidden in other issues like ASB or cuckooing
Reviewing staff reporting mechanisms as hate incidents involving staff often go unreported
Strengthening community connections to promote cohesion and mutual understanding

Outcomes

To increase confidence in policing when responding to hate crime
To improve the sense of safer town centres
To support the most vulnerable in the community

Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police
Mole Valley District Council
Joint Action Group (JAG)
NHS SARC programme (Sexual Assault Referral Centre)
NHS Stand Up To Harassment – Bystander Training (Susie Lamplugh Trust)

Actions

To tackle Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) both from strangers and through domestic abuse.
Use Safer Streets Data to review locations of concern.
Promote safeguarding campaigns such as Ask for Angela
Circulation of media campaigns to challenge public perception and encourage the challenging of poor behaviour

Outcomes

To improve reporting of violence against women and girls

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police
Mole Valley District Council
NHS SARC programme (Sexual Assault Referral Centre)

Actions

To refer to Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), Housing, Adult and Children’s services
To support Sanctuary scheme
To promote ways of reporting DA

Outcomes

To reduce the risk to victims and children of domestic abuse.

Safe and Resilient Communities

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Mole Valley District Council

Actions

To investigate and enforce incidents of envirocrime including fly-tipping, littering and abandoned vehicles consistently and robustly
To work with Surrey Environment Partnership on wider operations
To map hot spot areas for envirocrime to focus activity

Outcomes

Improvement in the environment
Reduction in level of offences from prolific offenders

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Community Harm and Risk Management Meeting (CHaRMM)
Joint Action Group (JAG)

Actions

To tackle prolific perpetrators of ASB
To address impact of ASB on vulnerable victims and communities
To use a multi-agency approach using appropriate enforcement and intervention

Outcomes

To reduce levels of ASB from prolific perpetrators
To reduce levels of ASB in most affected locations
To increase sense of safety for affected people and communities

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police
Surrey County Council
Surrey RoadSafe road safety partnership

Actions

To tackle anti-social and dangerous driving and riding through Op Downsway, Vanguard Road Safety Team
To tackle speeding through Operations such as Op Downsway, and support for Community Speed Watch Groups
To address areas of concern through the Road Safety Working Group by identifying and diagnosing collision hotspots and road safety problems and developing highway or enforcement solutions

Outcomes

To increase sense of safety for affected people and communities

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Fire and Rescue

Actions

To engage with local community groups with water safety advice
To identify high risk areas for water safety through data analysis and partnership engagement
To lead on water safety campaigns in high risk areas to educate and inform residents

Outcomes

To increase understanding of water safety risks and improve safety in higher risk areas

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Surrey Police
Town Centre BIDs and Shopping Centres

Actions

To investigate and enforce incidents of Shoplifting and Retail Crime
To roll out the DISC system to support more streamlined reporting of crime
To work with the BID and Business Crime Reduction Partnership to ensure joint actions to tackle crime.
Dedicated policing operations to tackle retails crime.

Outcomes

To increase number of convictions and other penalties for Retail Crime
To improve partnership working with Retail communities
To create safer town centres

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Housing Associations

Actions

To fund improvements in Community safety and resilience
Voluntary work in communities

Outcomes

To increase sense of safety for affected people and communities

Communication and Reassurance

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Mole Valley District Council
Surrey Police

Actions

Regular messaging of statistics showing MV as one of the safest places to live and work

Outcomes

Increased sense of safety as shown in regular surveys

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Mole Valley District Council
Surrey Police

Actions

Ensuring reporting methods are well publicised and accessible for all residents of Mole Valley

Outcomes

Increased understanding of ways to report ASB as shown in regular surveys

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Actions

Actively sharing partners’ communications

Outcomes

Increased awareness of activities of all partners

Proposed Lead Agency/Group

Mole Valley District Council

Actions

Widely accessible public consultations for PSPOs when made or renewed
Publicity following consultations explaining what PSPOs cover and how they are enforced

Outcomes

Increased awareness of PSPOs as a tool to address antisocial behaviour in public places

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