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 and we will be continuing to fund the Truro Rangers security resource for five days a week this financial year (2026/27).
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 46 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.
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.
Truro Rangers Hot Spot Patrols
In addition to these Truro BID funded hours, 'Hot Spot Patrols' undertaken by our Truro Rangers have been taking place as part of a Government funded initiative since Autumn 2024.
We are pleased to say that 14 hours a week of Truro Rangers Hot Spot Patrols, taking place in the evenings and on alternate Saturdays, will continue for the next six months (until October 2026) as we've been awarded Police and Crime Commissioner Funding. To achieve the funding we were able to show evidence of the success of the Hot Spot Patrol scheme.
In addition, we provided the city with an online reporting system called DISC, which also reports to the police.