Witham, Braintree & Halstead
The Joint Action Groups (JAG's) are Police meetings that involve
multiple agencies. There are three JAG's, one for
Witham, Braintree and Halstead.
The purpose of the groups is to work in partnership to address
Community Safety issues and assist with the delivery of the
Braintree District Community Safety Strategic Assessment Priorities
and Annual Partnership Plan.
The aims are to:-
Identify ‘hot spots’ (crime/nuisance/anti social behaviour)
within the three Police Sections.
Determine solutions and instigate agreed plans of action.
Act as a multi-agency problem solving forum to address issues
that matter most to the community; this will include priorities
identified and raised through the Neighbourhood Action Panels (also
known in some areas as Neighbourhood Meetings)
The first part of the meeting allows for all
colleagues to share non-personalised information on locality based
issues. Members attending this part of the meeting may
disclose the individual names of alleged perpetrators to Essex
Police personnel.
The second part of the meeting allows
for representatives from Essex Police, Registered Social
Landlords ((RSL) Housing Providers), Community Safety and other
relevant partner agencies to share personalised information
and discuss sensitive methods of addressing/curtailing the
behaviour of specific individuals.
(Neighbourhood Action Panels (NAPs) also known in some areas as
Neighbourhood Meetings feed their top three issues into the
appropriate area JAG).
The Groups currently meet monthly:-
Halstead – First Tuesday of every month (10.30am – 11.30am)
Townsford Mill, Halstead
Witham – First Wednesday of every month (10.30am – 11.30am) Town
Hall, Newlands Street, Witham
Braintree – First Thursday of every month (10.15am –
11.15am) 
Braintree Police
Station, Braintree