The Shire of Peppermint Grove covers an area of 1.5 square kilometres, has 10.6 km of sealed roads, and a population of approximately 1,652 in over 600 residential dwellings.

Shire of Peppermint Grove has a Community Safety and Crime Prevention Working Party. The Shire also attends Western Suburbs Community Safety Coordinators meetings and Metro North Road Safety Reference Group meetings.

Meeting Dates:

• The Working Party meets bi-monthly
• The W.S.C.S. coordintors meet monthly/bi-monthly
• M.N.R.S.R group meet tri-monthly

Working Party members:

• Shire of Peppermint Grove Council staff and an Elected Member
• WA Police
• Main Roads WA
• WALGA RoadWise Program
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Local businesses

Projects/Issues

Speed display trailer
Peppermint Grove’s Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan – one of the local priorities in the plan is to reduce speeding and travel speeds within the local community through education campaigns, the use of a speed alert mobile display trailer, enforcement and improving public infrastructure and other road engineering practices on local roads.

Child car restraints
The Shire has been working with the RoadWise Program, Road Aware, Town of Cottesloe, Town of Mosman Park and the local library to highlight the proper use of child car restraints with an educational display for parents and a colour-in competition for children.

Blow 0.00 and win
The Shire has also been involved in the Blow 0.00 and win competition where drivers are breath tested by WA Police and go into the draw to win a prize if they blow 0.00.

Road safety around schools
The Shire has been working closely with local schools utilising Road Safety Around Schools Guidelines to improve road safety in school zones. 

Care for Yourself and Your Community
The Shire has sponsored ECU Nursing Students for the last 4 years in the ‘Care for Yourself and Your Community’ campaign to conduct road safety sessions and other safety topics/sessions in local schools, aged care facilities, library and shopping centres within the local community.

Intersection safety
The Shire works with local residents and schools to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety at intersections along Stirling Highway that have access into Peppermint Grove, through their Traffic Management and Road Safety Advisory Group.

Easter Campaign 2012
The Shire has been working with RoadWise to highlight the impact fatigue and distraction has on driving, especially over the Easter period where travelling long distances generally increases for families.

The Shire works in partnership with Town of Mosman Park on various road safety projects.