Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Crime and Disorder Committee
17 Feb 2026 - 18:00
Occurred
Grand Jury Room
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Agenda

Part A
1 Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
2 Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
3 Urgent Items
The Chair will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
4 Declarations of Interest

Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other registerable interest or non-registerable interest.

 

5 Have Your Say!
Members of the public may make representations to Scrutiny Panel meetings on any item on the agenda or any other matter relating to the business of the Panel. This must be made either in person at the meeting.  Each representation may be no more than three minutes. Members of the public wishing to address the Panel must register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting. In addition, a written copy of the representation must be supplied by that deadline.

For more information on having your say, please consult the advice on our website: Have Your Say!
6 Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meetings held on 22 May 2024 and 11 March 2025 are a correct record.
pdf Crime and Disorder Committee Minutes 22 May 2024 (29Kb)
pdf Crime and Disorder Committee Minutes 11 March 2025 (62Kb)
7 Safer Colchester Partnership Report
This report provides the Crime and Disorder Committee with the opportunity to review the work of the Colchester Community Safety Partnership (CSP) during the periods 
• 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
• 1 April 2025 – 31 December 2025. 
Included within the report is background information and an explanation of the role of the CSP, work undertaken by the Partnership during the above periods, and plans for 2026/27. 

The report also provides the Crime and Disorder Committee with the opportunity to review the Strategic Assessment of Crime document, based on data between October 2024 – September 2025 (Appendix A), the Risk Matrix (Appendix B) and the draft wording for the Key Areas of Focus for the Colchester Community Safety Partnership for 2026-27. 
 
8 Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).
Part B

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Apologies
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Councillor Paul Smith  
Absent
NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

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