Crime prevention and personal safety

Agreed on 16 July 2025. Updated on 12 August 2025

We are reaching out in the community to vulnerable members of the public to offer crime prevention and personal safety advice. To educate people about fraud through our fraud talks and reduce violence against women and girls through continued promotion of Street Safe.

For groups interested in booking a fraud talk, contact us via this form or by telling us in person at one of our events.

We have circulated information regarding crime prevention to the local Talking Cafe or you can visit our enquiry office at the Minehead Police Station, Stephenson Road, Minehead. The office is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00.

For more crime prevention advice, go to our website.

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12 August 2025

We have got a bike marking event at Minehead Police Station on 19th August. If this date does not work for you and you would like your bike marked, please contact us and we can do it for you.
29 July 2025

We have got a bike marking event at Minehead Police Station on 19th August. If this date does not work for you and you would like your bike marked, please contact us and we can do it for you.
15 July 2025

We actively welcome feedback from the public and encourage you to engage with us. Your input is vital in helping us understand the issues that matter most to you and your community. Whether it’s concerns about local crime, safety, or general policing matters, we want to hear from you.

Let us know what challenges you’re facing in your area, how we can better support your neighbourhood, and what kind of policing presence or initiatives you would like to see regularly. This could include ‘Talk to Us’ surgeries—informal drop-in sessions where you can speak directly with officers about local issues, receive crime prevention advice, and learn more about who we are and what we do.

We can also host Policing Masterclasses—interactive events designed to raise awareness and educate communities on a range of important topics, such as drug misuse, anti-social behaviour (ASB), fraud, child sexual exploitation, modern slavery, and more. These sessions also provide signposting to relevant support services and partner agencies.

In addition to community engagement, we encourage you to report any suspicious behaviour or share any information that could assist our investigations. Intelligence from the public is absolutely crucial—sometimes even the smallest detail can be the key piece of the puzzle we need to take action and protect others.
26 June 2025

We have hosted a Fraud Prevention talk at one of our local community groups to raise awareness of fraud and how to keep yourselves self online.
16 June 2025

We welcome feedback from the public and want you to engage with us. We want you to let us know about the issues you have in your area, how we can support your community and what you would like us to do in your area on a regular basis; that could be a ‘Talk to Us’ surgery were you can come along and speak to us about policing issues or to get crime prevention advice and find out who we are and what we do or we can run policing Masterclasses where we can deliver an event to educate communities about Drugs, ASB, Fraud, Child Sexual Exploitation, Modern Day Slavery etc. and provide signposting to support agencies.

This can also be to report suspicious behaviour and to provide intelligence to the Police, the intelligence we receive from members of the public is crucial to us and even a small piece of information can be the missing piece we need.
3 June 2025

We continue to attend the Talking Café once a month. If you miss us, do not hesitate to visit our enquiry office. We have lots of crime prevention advice leaflets we can give you to make you feel safer.
21 May 2025

We continue to attend the Talking Café once a month. If you miss us, do not hesitate to visit our enquiry office. We have lots of crime prevention advice leaflets we can give you to make you feel safer.
21 April 2025

We continue to attend the Talking Café once a month. If you miss us, please do not hesitate to visit our enquiry office. We have lots of crime prevention advice leaflets that we can give you to make you feel safer.
15 March 2025

We have engaged with local community members about keeping themselves safe, especially online. If you miss us at one of the local Talking Cafes, do not hesitate to visit us at our enquiry office if you need any crime prevention advice.

If you know of someone that may be vulnerable to being a victim of crime, contact us. We have a great deal of crime prevention leaflets to inform members of our community of recent scams, allowing them to be more criminally-aware.