Operation Respect

Operation Respect, which is in it's second year, centres around keeping the city and those within safe over the festive period especially when there is an increase of people coming into the area for the Winter Festival events as well as to access the businesses in the vicinity.

There are a number of different aspects to the campaign, including increased police officer patrols, taxi marshals, street pastors and the security task team, who all aim to see a reduction in disorder in the city centre streets during December.

Also, in conjunction with Stagecoach, the operation will be providing a low-cost 'Night Bus' service starting this evening (03 December 2010) running from 23:30 hours until 04:00 hours every Friday and Saturday in December (apart from Christmas and New Year's Day evenings) to Culloden and Balloch, Kinmylies and Hilton.

Operation Respect is not just centred around safety in the evenings, and with the use of the Shopwatch scheme, the partnership aims to improve personal safety for shoppers and shop owners during the day and with Pubwatch, improve that in the evenings.

A number of businesses and organisations are involved in the preparation for Operation Respect including, Highland Council, Crimestoppers, Inverness Crime Prevention Panel (ICPP), Inverness Business Improvement District (BID), Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA), Inverness Taxi Association, Pubwatch, Street Pastors and Northern Constabulary.