Over the course of summer 2025, Surrey’s Safer Streets Summer Initiative is taking place in town centres across the county.
With a focus on the busiest areas of Surrey, the scheme will bolster crime prevention and community safety.
It brings together partners including:
- The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
- Surrey Police
- Schools
- Local authorities
- Business Improvement Districts
- Community organisations
Criminality targeted includes those types that typically increase during the summer months, including: anti-social behaviour; violence against women and girls; retail crime; and violent offending.
The aims of the initiative align with the priorities established in Commissioner Lisa Townsend’s Police and Crime Plan, including back to basics policing, preventing violence against women and girls, and strengthening safe and resilient communities.
Locations for extra activity span the country, including Staines and Addlestone in the north, Farnham and Camberley to the west, Dorking further to the south, and Caterham in the east.
Targeted activity will take place until September, although Surrey Police actively pursue all types of criminality all year round.
Anti-social behaviour
- Surrey Police’s Safer Neighbourhood Teams will increase resilience and visibility across the town centres to tackle anti-social behaviour
- Op Colt, in Guildford, will focus on youth-related anti-social behaviour on Sundays
- Enhanced activity, including Operation Shield, will take place in Epsom town centre
- There will be increased use of Community Protection Warning Notices, Community Protection Letters and Anti-Social Behaviour Warnings to target individuals offending in town centres
- Public Space Protection Orders are in place across towns including Epsom and Dorking to help police tackle offending
Youth engagement
- Youth Engagement Officers will be working alongside Kick X in Addlestone to support young people
- Voluntary services will provide summer holiday activities in Camberley
- East Surrey’s YMCA Reigate bus will be used in the town during peak times for anti-social behaviour
- Football clubs including Farnham FC and Dorking Wanderers will host days for young people during the holidays
- An Epsom boxing club will run campaign Gloves Up/Knives Down to mentor young people at risk of knife-carrying
- Walton Leisure Centre will offer free swimming lessons
Targeting transport networks
- In Dorking, the Roads Policing Team will target the anti-social riding of high-powered motorbikes
- Working with the Met Police, officers will target motorbike-enabled crime, particularly in Epsom
- Officers will work with licensed minicab drivers to spot signs of child exploitation
- Joint operations will take place with British Transport Police and rail enforcement officers to disrupt criminality at train stations
- In July, Surrey Police conducted one of its largest-ever multi-agency operations in Epsom and Ewell as part of Safer Streets Summer
Working with businesses
- Monthly retail crime days of action are planned, with plain-clothed officers patrolling high streets
- Officers will work with Business Improvement Districts to share intelligence and disrupt shoplifting
- Vehicles connected to rogue traders will be checked by the DVLA, Highways England and Surrey’s roads policing teams
- Designing Out Crime Officers will provide assessments of businesses and give advice to owners