Community Safety


Current Work

The Wirral Community Safety Partnership (Safer Wirral) is a collaborative approach among local agencies to enhance safety across Wirral.

The partnership's most recent strategy for 2021-2025 outlines ten priority themes aimed at improving community safety. These themes include addressing anti-social behaviour, violent crime, domestic abuse, drugs and alcohol, hate crime, modern slavery, prevention, road safety, emergency planning, and coastal and inland water safety. 

The previous full strategy document can be accessed for more detailed information.

A new strategy is currently being planned with the accompanying needs assessment (details to follow). Consultations are ongoing with elected members, stakeholders and Wirral residents.

This will focus on the current strategic priorities and whether they are still relevant, along with perceptions of safety. 


Recent projects and publications


Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership

The Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership (MVRP) is a team of subject leads and experts working together, with communities, to address the underlying causes of violence and prevent it. They adopt a public health approach, focusing on intervening in a positive way to help young people and families from before birth to young adulthood.

Strategic Needs Assessment

The Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA) for Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership (MVRP) allows MVRP and partners to understand what Serious Violence (SV) in Merseyside looks like, using both an evidence-based and public health approach.

Reviewing data and information from a range of sources gives a solid understanding for both the MVRP and partners to put interventions in place and have a big impact to reduce SV across the Merseyside region.

View Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership Strategic Needs Assessment 2024 - 2025

Representative Household Survey (April 2025)

-         Merseyside Violence and Community Safety (MerVCom) Representative Household Survey (April 2025) Wirral Local Authority Summary Report


EVOLVE Wirral 

The Clear, Hold, Build initiative, which is supported by the Home Office and known locally as EVOLVE Wirral, covers Beechwood and Ballantyne, Noctorum, and Woodchurch and aims to improve communities worst affected by serious and organised crime.

The Clear and Hold phases were launched following the murder of Elle Edwards on December 24, 2022 while the Build phase was launched on May 18, 2023 and is designed to build communities into more prosperous and safer areas resilient to gang-related activity.

Since then, police and partners have been working hard to rid the areas of criminality while supporting and strengthening communities.

Qualitative Insight Report (information to come)

-          Qualitative Insight Report (information to come)

Press Releases

To be added


Community Safety Strategy

The new Community Safety Strategy will run from 2026-2031 and the content will be updated here upon publication.

This will detail the strategic priorities for Community Safety, along with action plans for thematic areas.


Past Supporting Evidence

Previous supporting evidence

  • Neighbourhood Crime Statistics for Wirral Community Police Team - Hub One and Wirral Community Police Team - Hub Two (Currently data not available from Police UK)

  • Wirral Violence Profile(December 2014) 
    This profile, was produced by Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, for Wirral's then Community Safety Partnership

  • Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG): Merseyside and Cheshire Themed Report: Assaults in the home across Merseyside and Cheshire(2011/12 to 2012/13)
    This Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG) report provides an analysis of assault in the home attendances to Accident and Emergency Departments (AEDs) across Merseyside and Cheshire, reporting on patient demography and incident levels between April 2011 and March 2013.

  • Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG): Trends in violence across the North West of England 
    This briefing for commissioners and providers is to look at violence-related attendances to all Emergency Departments across the North West of England, supplemented by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) data, providing a much more detailed picture of violence-related activity across the region.

Previous content

Crime and Safety (December 2019)

Wirral JSNA: Crime and Disorder Summary provided by Wirral Community Safety Partnership