Community Engagement

We want to give members of the community the chance to make a difference to the future of policing, by providing effective and appropriate community engagement opportunities across North Wales.

Community engagement enables North Wales Police and the Police Authority to gather perceptions of how far our service meets the needs of communities across North Wales, and identify ways in which we can improve the service. It also gives the community the opportunity to give their opinion on crime and disorder, their policing priorities, and to tell us what problems there are in their communities.

The Force and Authority believe that communities should feel that we have not only heard their views, but we have genuinely listened to them and translated what we heard into action to the best of our abilities.

North Wales contains diverse communities, and we recognise that we will have to work hard to be as inclusive as possible in our activities, by tailoring our activities to the needs of different people. Where possible we will aim to work with our partners, both in the public and voluntary sector, to deliver appropriate engagement and to avoid duplication, but most importantly to ensure that the communities also recognise the valuable contribution our partners make to making North Wales a safer place.

On the 30th of September 2010 the Force and Authority adopted a new Community Engagement Strategy. The aim of this strategy is to establish a cooperate approach to community engagement,  but an approach which is also flexible enough to allow our neighbourhood policing teams to utilise their local knowledge to respond to the engagement needs of different communities.

Each Policing district in North Wales will develop local plans based on the overall approach identified in this plan, and the district plans will be made available on this website in the near future.

Joint Community Engagement Strategy