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Medway police

Police in Medway target offenders who commit crime and display anti-social behaviour and aim to bring them to justice. Their success will lead to a safer society where human rights are respected, everyone belongs and preventing crime means working effectively in partnership.

Listening to your concerns, they will seek to increase the visibility of their officers by targeting their use to reduce crime and disorder, while also reducing the fear of crime and improving public confidence. This requires the identification of the locations where best use can be made of their resources, balancing visibility with other policing objectives.

Key policing policies

The National Policing Plan sets out the Home Secretary’s requirements for the service, giving the key policing priorities that police forces need to work on in partnership with both national and local agencies.

The primary objective for the police service is to deliver improved police performance and greater public reassurance, particularly around these key priorities:

o  tackling anti-social behaviour and disorder;

o  reducing street, drug-related and violent crime in line with local and national targets;

o  fighting serious and organised crime across force boundaries;

o  increasing the number of offenders brought to justice.

The success or otherwise of this plan is dependant on the performance and drive of all police staff, the partnerships they forge with other agencies and most importantly, the support and assistance of the communities they serve.

Our Medway police officers do a difficult, vital and all-too-often dangerous job to keeping our streets safe. It is challenging work, often in challenging circumstances, but they operate at their best because of a relationship with the public founded on consent rather than coercion.

This relationship is based on mutual respect – the police understand that they are public servants, charged with the responsibility to protect us and the public understand that police officers are able to do this when they are treated with the respect they deserve.