Redruth Town Council works with partners to help keep the town safe and welcoming. We are part of the Safer Cornwall Partnership Board to ensure community safety issues are raised, escalated and addressed through partnership working.
Community safety staffing and support
The Council has part-funded an Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Caseworker, who patrols the town and works with local Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). The Council provides a room for police officers to use as a base while on duty in the town.
CCTV
Redruth Town Council is home to a CCTV monitoring service, which is based in Redruth and used by four councils: Redruth Town Council, Camborne Town Council, Truro City Council and Perranzabuloe Parish Council.
The service is all about community safety. It helps the police and other agencies to deter crime, and to ease worries about personal safety. Trained operators monitor the cameras and work closely with Devon and Cornwall Police.
The Council understands that CCTV can raise concerns about privacy. The service aims to balance those concerns with the benefits to safety. It is used to help solve crime only on the rare occasions when help is needed.
Confidentiality is at the heart of the service. Data is processed in line with UK GDPR and shared only with a small group of law enforcement agencies, and only for specific reason. The Council protects that data at all times.
Reporting to the police and to Cornwall Council
If you would like to report anti-social behaviour to the police, or to Cornwall Council, we have gathered the links for you to do this here.
Tackling business crime together
Redruth Town Council has paid for all local businesses to join UK PAC, a platform that helps businesses work together to tackle crime.
If a crime is committed against a business, the owner can upload phone or CCTV footage to the platform, so it can be used as evidence. Businesses that sign up also get access to the UK PAC WhatsApp group.
