A neighbourhood approach to safety and crime reduction.
To ensure everyone working, living, and visiting Bankside can feel safe and secure, we drive partnerships, trainings, and specific projects to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. Better Bankside is tackling crime by working in collaboration and in partnership with businesses, council officers, and the Metropolitan Police in our Security and Resilience Theme Group. Our services which support your business to operate through disturbances include:
Better Bankside Wardens patrol the area up to 12 hours a day Monday to Saturday. The Wardens provide reassurance to people working, living and visiting Bankside to keep crime low and create a safe area.
The Wardens can be contacted as follows:
- Via online form – This will go directly to the Wardens, and they will respond when they are next on shift.
- Better Bankside Wardens Team Mobile 07725 625954
- Southwark Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) hotline 020 7525 5777
For more information on the support the Wardens can provide, visit our Warden’s page.
Safeguarding your business during public events. We are keen to support you keeping staff and your businesses safe, please find a useful guide which focuses on the following:
- Prioritise employee protection
- Protect your business premises
- Securing vacant premises
- Protests impacting on your business
- Reporting crimes to the police
Pubwatch schemes have been in existence nationally for over 20 years. The meetings act as a forum at which members can also hear about local events and receive advice and training on things such as dealing with drugs, football hooliganism and the threat from terrorism.
Resilience is the ability of an organisation to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper – in short: to be able to handle unforeseen events for example but not limited to, flood, fire, high temperatures, cyber disruption, or a terrorist attack. These events cannot be prevented from happening, but it is wise to prepare for those emergencies to minimise long term effects which could impact on your business. Better Bankside offer information on business continuity and trainings on counter-terrorism and cyber security.
Cyber Security training: The cyber threat to businesses continues to increase each year, with most ransomware attacks coming through a compromised computer. In order to equip members with the skills to minimise the risk of falling prey to hackers, we have partnered with the Police Digital Security Centre to deliver a series of seminars covering the basics of cyber security and identifying simple techniques to make businesses more resilient against a cyber potential attack.Â
ACT Awareness: The current UK threat level from terrorism is… SUBSTANTIAL meaning An Attack his Likely. There is no intelligence to suggest that your location/event might be targeted, but past terror attacks have shown that in the unlikely event of an attack, preparedness is key to protecting yourself and others.  ACT Awareness (Action Counters Terrorism) is a presentation that looks at the following four main topics:
- What the current Terrorism Threat Level is/where it comes from,
- Hostile reconnaissance/ suspicious behaviour and how to spot/ report it
- What to do about suspicious items
- Responding to a Firearms or Weapons Attack  – Run, Hide, Tell – what to do if caught up in a marauding terrorist situation
Self-Defence Training and Mental Health First Aid training: Check our events listings to see what’s on offer.
To get in touch with us please contact Diane Newton on 020 7928 3998 or dn@betterbankside.co.uk.
