Safety in our Night-Time Economy

We are committed to making the night-time economy (NTE) a safe place for all in Bath. In particular, we have a focus on ensuring Women and Girls are free from harassment, violence and other offences associated with the NTE.

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• 29 August 2025
  

  Friday 29th and Saturday 30th August – Partner Working with Royal Military Police

  Over the weekend of the 29th and 30th of August we were joined by officers from the Royal Military Police who helped boost our presence in the Bath City Centre Night Time Economy. We hope this is the start of a productive, proactive relationship between our two forces.

  Officers from the Neighbourhood Team, Response Team and Military Police spent the evening working alongside City Marshals from Bath BID, Bath City Pastors and the Suicide Prevention UK Welfare Team.

• 16 May 2025
  

  Friday 16th May – Nightclub Drug Trace Testing

  On the evening of Friday 16th May, assisted by the Bath Outers Beat Team, we carried out a drug trace testing operation at Labyrinth Nightclub in Bath City Centre.

  These operations are designed to detect and prevent drugs commonly used in drink spiking from entering our Night Time Economy venues. We also use these deployments as an opportunity to engage with customers and offer personal safety advice.

  Over 50 people were tested entering the venue, none of whom returned any trace for drugs. We’d like to thank the venue and staff for their collaboration in hosting us for this deployment.

   

• 26 March 2025
  

  ‘Ask for Angela’ Training for NTE Venues in Bath provided by Bath BID:

  Bath BID recently organised refresher training for venues in Bath around the ‘Ask for Angela’ campaign, a scheme that aims to help women discretely attract attention from staff in the event they need assistance, or need to leave.

  The training was attended by almost 100 people and was positively reported by BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d49146x40o

  The Bath City Centre Team continues to promote this training and recommends it as a simple, effective way of helping reduce potential violence against women and girls in the Night Time Economy

• 23 January 2025
  

  Bath BID have recently published a video highlighting the excellent work the Bath Safe Bus Team, and its wider partners do in our Night Time Economy. We continue to work closely with the Bath BID and Safe Bus Team.

  “Keeping people safe on a night out in Bath is a real team effort. This video created by Bath Spa University students and Bath BID highlights the important work and collaboration of all partners in keeping people safe and supporting the Bath Safe Bus project.
  Thanks for letting us be a part of the video!”

  Video can be viewed here: Bath Safe Bus – Bath Business Improvement District

• 8 December 2024
  

  Week of Action – 2nd to 8th December 2024.

  During the first week of December, together with a number of extra resources from across the Force we delivered a comprehensive week of action focused on VAWG and the Night Time Economy.

  The results included:

  • 13 arrests
  • 5 drug seizures (including 150 wraps of crack cocaine)
  • 1 County Line taken out
  • 1 Rambo knife seized
  • 35 alcohol licensing visits
  • 13 VAWG awareness events
  • 7 visits to high-harm victims and offenders with IOM (Integrated Offender Management)

   

  Full Story here:

  Proactive police operation tackles sexual violence in Bath nightlife | Avon and Somerset Police

• 4 October 2024
  

  September was a busy month for the Bath City Centre NPT as we welcomed a new cohort of students to the city, and undertook a number of engagement activities such as:

  • presenting workshops with Bath BID, teaching over 150 students and students union staff how they can keep themselves and others safe while out at night
  • holding a meeting with SU Officers at Bath Spa University Students’ Union to share all the projects we are working on that students might be interested in, including #WalkAndTalk and #StreetSafe
  • attending freshers’ events at Bath College , Bath Spa University , University of Bath and Norland College alongside the Bath Safe Bus, promoting this amazing project and providing crime prevention advice
  • continuing to promote the free Bystander Intervention Training offered by the OPCC to all night-time economy workers
  • joining Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bath BID and the Student Community Partnership on a round of joint Licensing Visits in the City Centre during #SpikingIntensificationWeek. We spoke to venue management teams about what they’re doing to keep their customers safe, made sure they were complying with relevant licensing legislation, and promoted Licensing SAVI, the only police-accredited safety award scheme for Licensed Premises
  • completing our first #ProjectVigilant deployment, resulting in two positive outcomes

  All told, we engaged with around 600 people over the month around the theme of night-time economy safety.