Police ramp up patrols to keep Eastbourne safe at night

Dedicated teams will be covering Eastbourne, Wealden, Rother, Lewes and Hastings on Friday and Saturday night, focussing on areas where people have reported feeling unsafe using the Street Safe app, throughout December and into the New Year.

The Street Safe app is a pilot service that allows people, particularly women and girls, to anonymously tell police about public places where they have felt or feel unsafe, because of environmental issues such as street lighting, abandoned buildings or vandalism and/or because of some behaviours like being followed or verbally abused.