This week, I joined Inspector Luke Hughes on a walkabout in the City Centre, meeting and chatting to residents asking for their views on the centre and policing. After a consultation with businesses, residents, North Wales Police and Wrexham Council, I was extremely pleased to see that traffic limitation measures were put in place on the High Street in June. After a couple of months, it was great to hear such good feedback and that residents feel a lot safer in the evenings. During the walkabout, we spent time at the Bus station discussing anti-social behaviour and the use of dispersal orders, and as a result of this poor behaviour, the partial closure of the bus station during certain hours. I will be working with North Wales Police with the aim to ensure the bus station is open at all times.
Through four rounds of the Safer Streets Fund, North Wales PCC have received just over £3.6million worth of funding from the UK Government. At the start of this summer, Wrexham secured £30,000 from the UK Government to make our streets safer during the school holidays. It is pleasing to see these projects well underway and that they are providing young people with social and physical activities that otherwise would not have been on offer.