Share your views on crime and safety in Reading

Reading's Community Safety Survey runs every year and is a chance for you to share your views on how safe you feel and the crime issues affecting you in Reading. Your feedback will help us make Reading safer.

Crime and safety in Reading is tackled by Reading’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP). By law, every local authority (council), police force and other crime agencies have to work in partnership to tackle community safety and serious violence issues in their local areas. In Reading our CSP is chaired by the Commander of Reading Police and co-chaired by a Lead Councillor at Reading Borough Council. We publish a strategy every 3 years which details what we will do to make Reading safer.

The CSP's priorities between 2023 and 2026:

• Reduce crime in hotspot areas, including anti-social behaviour and hate crime.
• Reduce knife violence.
• Improve safety for women in public places.
• Reduce drug activity in neighbourhoods and tackle organised crime gangs that transport illegal drugs across Reading’s borders.
• Reduce repeat offending by people who commit crimes.

The CSP strategy can be seen in detail on Reading Borough Council's website.