Community Safety Practice Policy
Strategic Practice
The specific responsibilities for Developing a Strategic Assessment and its implementation are described in SI 2007/1830. The provision of information to undertake the strategic assessments are covered in SI 2007/1831. See also the Minimum Standards page on this site.
There are a number of problems in implementing statutory Strategic Assessment - in terms of aggregating the information for the purpose of providing multi agency strategic priorities. A number of areas - to avoid the production of dual assessments where agreement cannot be reached as to what is an acceptable priority CDRP's are adopting the more narrowly focused (but systematic) 'police control strategy' Strategic Assessments.
A useful tool to link the two - and get the best from both - is the Metropolitan Police developed Strategic Prioritisation Matrix. What this seeks to do is to provide a logical process for scanning, analysing and prioritising reported crime and selected crime and disorder related issues. It does not provide the whole picture; as it needs to be integrated with non-police information, community identified priorities and community consultation etc. But it is a help.
Operational Practice
Community Safety practice policy and specific practice examples are more easily found on the Crime Prevention page, the related crime and disorder topic pages - burglary, robbery etc and in the Community Safety Basics page.
However, there have been a couple of useful attempts by the UK government to prescribe good practice topics - translating general practice into systematically analysed and accessible information base. Information for Performance and Knowledge - the IPAK programme - being the most worked at attempt but although there is high quality research on practice available (see the Home Office RDS publications Development and Practice Reports). Guidance for practitioners in specific fields as yet this has not been distilled The regulation of practice has.
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UK Practice Policy Links
National Community Safety Plan 2008-11 : This is the updated version (December 2007) of the UK plan which describes the delivery of community safety services through partnership work within a statutory framework.
Safer Scotland Scottish Executive
Web pages with policies, contact information for the 32 Scottish community safety partnerships
Cutting Crime - A New Partnership 2008-11
The new (Autumn 2007) UK government crime reduction strategy
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships Mini-site
Home Office site providing guidance on effective crime reduction partnerships
This is the link to the circulars issued by the Home Office covering all aspects of its area - including crime and disorder reduction legislation and programmes of activity.
Web page with local government policy links, news, consulations etc from the English Local Government Association.
Web pages from the Scottish local authority community safety forum.
Northern Ireland Community Safety Unit
Web pages of the Northern Irish Community Safety Unit incldes information research, training and funding.
Wales - Community Safety - WLGA
Web page from the Welsh Local Government Association
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