Truro Rangers - security for the city
As well as organising events, we provide services for Truro and Truro’s businesses. Since April 2023 we have provided the city with a security resource.
We have been working with our current provider since October 2023, and now call this resource the Truro Rangers. The team who wear red utility vests provide 56 hours of foot patrols a week. They are a highly visible deterrent against low level crime and violence against shop workers. They wear body worn video cameras to help in gathering evidence to support potential prosecutions.
The Truro Rangers now have Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS) powers. This means that the Truro Rangers who patrol the City Centre can now stop individuals and take down names and addresses of those related to anti-social behaviour incidents to identify offenders which can then be handed on to the police.
Three of the four Truro Rangers who regularly patrol the streets have been CSAS trained. The Truro Rangers have been working well alongside Truro's businesses, and Truro’s anti-social behaviour officer (Stephen Lennon). Truro BID helps to fund the Truro Anti-Social Behaviour Officers post, alongside Truro City Council and Cornwall Council.
We have also provided the city with an online reporting system called DISC, which also reports to the police.