Maidstone Business Crime & Safety Survey

As a business owner or professional in Maidstone, your insights are crucial in shaping the safety of our community.

We understand that business crime impacts your livelihood directly and indirectly. By participating in this survey, you can help us better understand your concerns and ideas related to safety and security.

Community Safety in Maidstone is not the sole responsibility of any particular agency but is instead delivered through the combined efforts of a wider partnership through a Community Safety Partnership Plan. By participating in this survey, you contribute to our next Community Safety Partnership Plan.

Our 2022-25 Community Safety Partnership Plan, built on local quantitative and qualitative information, focuses on four core priorities:

1. Protecting our communities against serious, violent, and organised crime (including modern-day slavery) through strong prevention and enforcement measures.
2. Keeping children and young people safe - because relationships change lives, not resources.
3. Reducing the harm caused by domestic abuse (including stalking) - because domestic abuse is everyone’s business.
4. Providing a safe town centre - a space where everyone can feel safe.

Click here to read the current Community Safety Strategy (2022-25)

Why are we consulting

The Safer Maidstone Partnership works with local partners and communities to understand concerns and deliver the 4 priorities.

To help do this, we want to know your about your businesses experiences of crime including:

• feelings of safety in the area your business is located
• your experience of reporting crimes in relation your business
• crime prevention measures

How you can get involved

Survey - Complete our short survey below on Community Safety and Policing in Maidstone.

Survey takes about 4-6 minutes to complete.

Survey closes: 25 August 2024 - extended to 6 October 2024

What Next

In May 2025, the Safer Maidstone Partnership will decide the next 12 months of partnership activities to help reduce crime. These will come from:

• your response to this survey – understanding your crime concerns
• a review of crime and community safety data – to help make sure we continue to focus on crimes with the highest risk of harm