Community Safety Wardens

Rugby Borough Council currently operates a team of four Community Safety Wardens who patrol the streets and open spaces around Rugby Borough between the hours of 3.00 p.m. - 11.00 p.m., seven evenings a week.

The wardens aim to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors to the Borough by providing a uniformed presence on the streets, which will reassure vulnerable members of the community and will help to deter anti-social behaviour.

The wardens aim to develop good working relations with the public, and will provide a contact and reference point for the whole community.

The wardens are a mobile force and will react swiftly to reports of anti-social behaviour to intervene in incidents as they occur. In such cases, they will seek to engage perpetrators to stop the anti-social behaviour, they will gather intelligence and evidence in potential prosecution cases, and they will have a range of enforcement powers at their disposal to tackle some of the issues that they encounter.

Over time, they seek to divert anti-social members of society away from their current destructive patterns of behaviour and into more productive and meaningful activities.

In their day-to-day work they will deal with a wide range of quality of life issues such as abandoned and untaxed vehicles, dog fouling, fly tipping, litter enforcement and graffiti. They also regularly report maintenance problems such as faulty streetlights.

The support and full involvement of the local community is fundamental to the effective implementation of the community safety wardens scheme.

Contact details

To contact the warden service/initiate a response to an anti-social behaviour incident please ring our reporting line on:

0800 096 8800

or e-mail us at: communitysafety@rugby.gov.uk

Alternatively, please feel free to stop the wardens whilst they are out patrolling your local area and speak directly to them.