Agenda item - Chair's Communications

21.1    The main thing I want to talk about is taxi marshals.  Following a successful bid to the Home Office to address the safety of women and girls in the night time economy, taxi marshals are going to be deployed on Friday and Saturday nights at East Street and West Street between 1am and 5pm.  They will be deployed from December 2021 until the end of March 2022 when the funding stops.  There has been positive feedback from the Police including assisting a woman who had reported an alleged sexual assault.  When I attended the Police and Crime Panel a few weeks ago, I raised this with the Commissioner, Katy Bourne, and she gave a positive response to my request that the funding be continued.