• Expand 24/7 street security patrols and rapid response cleaning teams, ensuring high standards, fair pay, and a well-supported workforce dedicated to keeping the West End clean and safe.
• Roll out a 24/7 monitored CCTV network to improve surveillance, enhance incident response, and support crime prevention efforts.
• Explore a dedicated district app to enable issue reporting, direct contact with security, and real-time operational updates.
• Strengthen collaboration with the Metropolitan Police Service, Home Office, GLA, and Westminster City Council to tackle anti-social behaviour, deter crime, and improve public safety.
• Lobby for the existence of a dedicated West End Crime Team of police officers, focused exclusively on investigating crimes in the West End.
• Fund joint operations with the Metropolitan Police Service to support our members to trade in a safe and competitive business environment.
• Deploy and maintain acid attack, bleed kits and defibrillators across the district, ensuring they are mapped and accessible to emergency services in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
• Enhance intelligence gathering on Organised Crime Groups involved in retail crime and anti-social behaviour, strengthen our prolific offender’s database to track repeat offenders and support MPS with comprehensive evidence packs.
• Use targeted intelligence-sharing and hotspot policing to deter crime, leveraging real-time data to disrupt criminal activity before it escalates.
• Expand our Intelligence Hub with a dedicated analyst and 24-hour coverage, providing in-depth crime trend analysis, intelligence reports, and evidence-sharing to support businesses and police.
