A new ‘City Safe’ hub aims to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in Newcastle

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Northumbria Police has partnered with Newcastle City Council and NE1 to launch the new ‘City Safe’ hub at the Newcastle City Library, on New Bridge Street.

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00:00 I think this is a really exciting opportunity for Newcastle, as you say, bringing partners together

00:04 in one office gives us a real opportunity to share intelligence, to work really collaboratively,

00:08 to make better use of our resources, to make sure we've got visibility right across the city.

00:12 Newcastle's got some complex challenges and issues that we really want to solve, that's

00:16 being fed back to us by businesses and by the local community and this project will give us

00:19 a real platform to tackle some of those complex issues. So obviously the members of the public,

00:23 City Safe, might not mean anything but what actually is City Safe? So City Safe will see

00:27 Newcastle local authority, we'll see Northumbria Police and we'll see anyone sat in the same

00:32 office which is within the City Library within Newcastle and we're here to deal with crime and

00:37 anti-social behaviour issues, issues to do with homelessness, begging and some challenging

00:41 individuals who have gone from our street community, as well as some retail crime issues

00:45 and serious violence but the project will cover daytime issues and night time issues including

00:50 our really vibrant night time economy. Obviously you mentioned that you know the vibe that's

00:54 obviously the night time economy, obviously it's lighter nights now as well. What can people expect

00:58 to see from sort of all three organisations, especially as you say the night time economy?

01:02 A lot of this is about visibility so we want to be as visible as we possibly can,

01:07 using all three organisations resources so being at the right place at the right time,

01:10 hopefully to be proactive and prevent offences from happening so the public should feel really

01:14 reassured when they see police officers. We've got access to officers who will be highly visible

01:19 in yellow jackets but we've also got plainclothes officers who operate as part of our night time

01:23 economy and again that should hopefully give the public reassurance that we're there to tackle

01:26 vulnerability, we'll look to tackle kind of offenders who come in to cause problems within

01:30 the night time economy and to prevent serious violence so a safer city that people can come

01:34 in and really enjoy what Newcastle nightlife has to offer.

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