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Community Speed Watch

Excess vehicle speed can have a real impact on people's quality of life. It can affect the severity of any road traffic collision and can have a genuine influence on the lives of people in our communities.

The challenge for Essex Police is to provide the right level of reassurance and enforcement. Increasing the existing methods and including the community by recruiting volunteers and involving them in the Community Speed Watch campaign will benefit the communities themselves in helping to reduce anti-social behaviour problems.

Community Speed Watch is a traffic monitoring scheme that is co-ordinated by Essex Police and supported by the partnership but it is managed and run by volunteers in the community.

The aim of Community Speed Watch is to address the problem of either real or perceived speeding. This is done in partnership with the community in order to reduce the number of injuries from road traffic collisions.

Community Speed Watch wants to reduce the number of speed related offences within 12 months. This will be in each of the police areas where Community Speed Watch is taking place.

 The benefits of this scheme include;

Essex Police will support the scheme via the use of police staff, neighbourhood policing teams, special constables and police community support officers.
The level of participation will be determined locally. 

For more information and interactive map, please see the Essex Police website at the following address: www.essex.police.uk/be_safe/speeding.aspx