Preventing extremism and protecting the elderly from scammers are two of the crime fighting priorities set by a High Wycombe police action group.

Wycombe Community Safety Partnership has agreed a list of crimes it intends to focus on in 2015, with late-night safety and anti-social behaviour identified for the second year running.

And now the safety group is calling for feedback on the choices, with residents’ views influencing the work of police in the Wycombe area.

The 2015 priorities are:

  • continuing the work of the Nightsafe Partnership
  • tackling anti-social behaviour and gang related activity
  • tackling property related crime, including shoplifting
  • protecting our communities from the focus being on protecting the elderly from being defrauded by bogus traders, tackling child sexual exploitation, preventing extremism and domestic abuse

The Wycombe Community Safety Partnership is made up of organisations including Bucks County Council, Thames Valley Police, the Bucks Drug and Alcohol Action Team and Bucks Youth Offending Service.

It has opted to continue its work to promote the Nightsafe Partnership, a programme working to tackle issues around having a safe night out.

Measures include a publicity and education programme aimed at 18 to 24 year olds and the use of policing operations, which in some policing areas has seen metal-detecting knife arches in the town centre.

The feedback survey can be found at http://www.wycombe.gov.uk/news/consultation/21nov14-wycombe-community-safety-partnership-consultation.aspx

Eden vouchers worth £25 can be won by returning the form.