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As summer winds down, I'm pleased to update you on recent community matters. Cllr James Courtney has diligently addressed concerns about visitor behaviour on the Seafront. His collaboration with local groups has led to improved monitoring and communication to ensure a peaceful coexistence.

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Summer on the seafront

DEALING WITH THE CHALLENGES Having been born and bred in Southend, I was delighted to take on the “community safety and public protection” portfolio at the end of May when the Conservative Group formed a minority administration at the council.

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Our seafront has always attracted a wide variety of people, some of whom have come down to let off steam. We’ve had great family events over the years, with the airshow, classic car shows, shakedowns, and carnivals as well as a wide range of businesses to keep families entertained all summer long.

The seafront also comes to life late into the evening, with many youngsters exerting their independence and hanging out with their friends. We’ve also had the mods and rockers in the late 50s and early 60s, and the punks and skinheads in the late 70s and early 80s, who historically caused some real

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challenges to an otherwise very busy but generally family-friendly area.

The message spreads easily Over the last couple of decades, we have seen significant and unacceptable levels of anti-social behaviour (ASB) at certain times over the summer. These are usually (but not solely) at the end of the school year and on certain days of the summer holidays. One of the downsides of social media is that there is now great levels of organisation to these events and the message spreads easily and quickly.

Over recent weeks we have seen a handful of days where the numbers of youngsters coming to Southend purely to cause trouble has been totally unacceptable. This has hugely impacted residents, visitors and businesses alike and lessons have been learned regarding the response. Social media is also not our friend here, with false

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LOCAL ISSUES reports of acid attacks for example spreading like wildfire. That they have been false is good, but the fact they are out there is damaging to Southend’s reputation – it understandably makes anyone think twice about taking their young family down to the seafront.

Quite simply, criminals, thugs and those over-stepping the line need to be dealt with and this behaviour will not be tolerated.

Operation Union Spearheaded by Essex Police, Operation Union runs over the whole summer period, bringing together dedicated police officers deployed to the seafront, supported by the Council’s CST and CCTV team, BTP, and the police’s community teams and operational support group (specialist trained officers in public order), to tackle problems on the seafront. The police have additional powers, such as dispersal orders, which they can deploy when necessary.

It is difficult for the police and the Council to always get the balance right.

The Council doesn’t like to issue fines just for having a BBQ or taking dogs on the beach, when a quiet word will do - just like the police don’t want to arrest everyone when things turn ugly. However, I am acutely aware of the need to protect those in the city I grew up in and am now raising a family myself - as well as protecting our reputation of being a great place to bring your family and to go out into the evening.

There are regular meetings between the Police, the Council and other agencies responsible for keeping us safe – not only on the seafront but across the whole city.

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I am always pleased to provide feedback – good and bad – from residents and businesses to the senior police officers responsible for policing our city.

Left-to-right: Cllr James Courtenay, Ch/Supt Waheed Khan, Ch/Insp Jo Collins

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This summit was the next step in a long period of campaigning in Parliament and working alongside groups such as Surfers Against Sewage and Southend Against Sewage to call for greater regulation on governing bodies regarding sewage discharges into the Estuary. I was thrilled that the summit, held in collaboration with Sir James Duddridge MP, secured Anglian Water’s public commitment to eliminating 75% of all use of storm over-flows in Southend by 2030, which is 5 years ahead of the Government’s National Target, as well as a further commitment to work with the various Southend-based chill swimming groups on a better electronic storm overflow alert system.

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A huge amount of public concern This is a crucial step to ensuring our waters remain safe to swim. Storm overflows, which are designed to act as safety valves when the sewerage system is at risk of being overwhelmed (such as during heavy downpours) in a short space of time, release extra wastewater into seas. There is, understandably, a huge amount of public concern that these are being used in non-emergency situations. Last year, Anglian Water used its storm overflows in Southend West at leas 13 times, resulting in diluted sewage being pumped into our waters for at least 24 hours., which is obviously completely unacceptable.

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