{"id":343237,"date":"2025-12-30T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:13:08","slug":"two-in-three-women-feel-unsafe-in-preston-at-night-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343237\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in three women feel unsafe in Preston at night, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV has been extended to two of the city&#8217;s parks, while another is in line for a camera rollout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Improvements to lighting are also being made with additional lights being placed on main streets in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Street safety patrols carried out by council staff charged with helping tackle anti-social behaviour &#8211; often jointly undertaken with Preston&#8217;s Neighbourhood Policing Team &#8211; target potential problem spots, while regular checks are made on licensed premises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city centre has, since last year, also been covered by a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s cabinet member for communities and social justice, Peter Kelly, said the commissioner&#8217;s survey had &#8220;laid bare some staggering statistics&#8221; and highlighted &#8220;how important it is that we make our city safe for everyone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added:  &#8220;The council is involved in some fantastic collaborative work across the city to tackle some of the key issues that impact on the safety of our residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The LDRS approached the PCC for further comment on the survey results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCTV has been extended to two of the city&#8217;s parks, while another is in line for a camera&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-343237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}