Survivors’ Network, which supports survivors of sexual violence and abuse in Sussex, is awarded £30,718.77 to deliver vital services for survivors in Sussex,
Survivors’ Network, which supports survivors of sexual violence and abuse in Sussex, is awarded £30,718.77 to deliver vital services for survivors in Sussex,
Last week the Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) Katy Bourne attended a PCC-led Ministerial Roundtable Discussion on serious violence. Nationally and locally there have been increases in serious violence and organised crime groups with vulnerable young people being targeted and exploited to carry out their criminal biddings, including carrying knives.
Katy Bourne, the county’s Police & Crime Commissioner, has welcomed the decision from Sussex Police & Crime scrutiny panel to support her plans to level an increase on the council tax precept to spend more money on policing by an extra £2 per month (for an average band D property).
Organisers of this year’s Pride festival join forces with Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC), Katy Bourne, to help make Sussex #NoPlaceForHate. In the run-up to this year’s event themed ‘Freedom to Live’, pubs and bars in St James’s Street, which are part of the Pride Village Party, will be using specially designed beermats to help publicise the Self Evident hate crime reporting app.
Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC), Katy Bourne, says she will “continue to make sure that Sussex Police takes a zero tolerance approach to hate crime”.
A new App to make it easier to record and report all strands of hate crime in Sussex is being developed with support from Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC), Katy Bourne and partners.
Katy Bourne the Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner will join police officers on the Brighton Pride Community Parade this, Saturday, August 1. The theme of this years parade is Carnival of Diversity. It will start from the Peace Statue on Hove Lawns at 11am progressing along the seafront past the old West Pier, turning left up West Street, turning right at the clock then left at Old Steine and out on the London Road to Preston Park for the main event.
Report It! was set up by the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender) Community Safety Forum in 2014 with supportive funding from the Police & Crime Commissioner’s Safer in Sussex Community Fund (SiSCF). The aim of the project is to make it easier for members of the LGBT community to report a crime and get the help and support they need.