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- What We Do
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- Who We Are
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- Annual Reports
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- Helping To Keep You Safe
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- Funding
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- Job Opportunities
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- Performance
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- Publication Scheme
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- Specified Information
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- The Office
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Police & Crime
- Police & Crime
  Explore the Commissioner's Police & Crime Plan priorities including an outstanding local police service, preventing harm, supporting victims and impactful partnerships.
- Police & Crime
  Explore the Commissioner's Police & Crime Plan priorities including an outstanding local police service, preventing harm, supporting victims and impactful partnerships.
- Police Performance
  Monitor the performance of Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service through public meetings, performance data and scrutiny by the Commissioner.
Fire & Rescue
- Fire & Rescue
  Discover the Commissioner's Fire & Rescue Plan priorities including an outstanding service, effective prevention and protecting people and places across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
- Fire & Rescue
  Discover the Commissioner's Fire & Rescue Plan priorities including an outstanding service, effective prevention and protecting people and places across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
- Fire Performace
  Monitor the performance of Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service through public meetings, performance data and scrutiny by the Commissioner.
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- T: 01785 232385
- Mon - Thu: 8:30am – 5.00pm
- Fri: 8:30am – 4.30pm
- Sat - Sun: Closed
- Weston Road Complex
  Weston Road
  Stafford
  ST18 0YY

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Taxi marshals in Newcastle-under-Lyme backed by Commissioner

A scheme that aims to improve safety for night-time economy users in Newcastle-under-Lyme will continue thanks to funding from the Staffordshire Police, Fire & Rescue and Crime Commissioner’s Community Safety Fund.

Local schools benefitting from targeted education sessions

More schools and colleges across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are benefiting from high-quality Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE) education support, according to the Pan-Staffordshire PSHE Education Service’s latest annual Impact Report.

New community safety projects approved for Staffordshire Moorlands

A series of new community safety projects aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour, violence against women and girls, fraud, and rural crime prevention are set to be delivered across the Staffordshire Moorlands.

Misconduct Hearing For Chief Constable Christopher Noble

Notice of a hearing to be held in public

Countdown to Staffordshire Space programme 2026

Plans are underway for the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Space summer programme 2026, which last year saw over 9,000 young people across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent taking part in a range of fun activities.

Statement from Staffordshire Commissioner regarding the Government’s plans to abolish the role

You may be aware that Government recently confirmed that Police, Fire & Rescue and Crime Commissioners will be replaced in May 2028. There will be appointed Deputy Mayors in areas where elected Strategic Mayors are in place, and Police & Fire Boards in those areas where Mayoral elections are delayed.

New protocol brings consistent approach to unauthorised encampments

Police and councils have agreed a new shared protocol designed to bring a consistent approach to the way unauthorised encampments are managed in the region.

Staffordshire Commissioner Ben Adams’ statement on the death of Her Majesty The Queen

Staffordshire Commissioner fBen Adams said: “This is a profoundly sad time for our nation as we mourn the death of Her Majesty The Queen.”