Listening to your feedback

Torbay’s Community Safety Partnership is known as Safer Torbay. We spoke to residents, businesses and visitors across Torbay. We asked about how safe they feel visiting Torquay Town Centre at night. We asked about the reasons why they feel safe, or indeed unsafe.

• 45% stated that they felt fairly or very unsafe in Torquay Town Centre in the day. 35% said that they felt safe. At night, 79% of participants felt unsafe
• 91% of participants disclosed that they had experienced threatening and intimidating behaviour

The three most frequently given reasons for feeling unsafe in Torquay were:

• signs of drug use (85%)
• groups acting in an intimidating manner (76%)
• lack of Police/enforcement officers (72%)

The top three things that make people feel safe when visiting Torquay Town Centre are:

• avoiding particular areas (71%)
• seeing police officers/street marshals/enforcement officers (69%)
• walking with someone in a group (56%)

Of the 576 people who completed the survey, 59% of the respondents were female. Almost half were aged between 18-54.