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Negotiating Crime and Disorder Reduction Targets – Guidance for Crime and Disorder Reduction/Community Safety Partnerships
Following the Government's recent spending review and the publication of the Home Office's 5-year Strategic Plan, the Home Office has outlined 7 new Public Service Agreements (PSAs) that set their priorities to 2007/08. This is a guide for partnerships delivering these targets.
Title: Negotiating Crime and Disorder Reduction Targets – Guidance for Crime and Disorder Reduction/Community Safety Partnerships
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Partnership Performance and Support Unit
Date published: December 2004
Number of pages: 14
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Summary
This guidance takes partnerships through the crucial role they have in agreeing targets that support local delivery of the Governments PSA targets:
PSA1 - to reduce overall crime by 15%
PSA2 - to reassure the public, reducing the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour, and building confidence on the criminal justice system without compromising fairness
PSA3 - to bring 1.25 million offences to justice in 2007/08
PSA4 - to reduce the harm caused by illegal drugs including substantially increasing the number of drug misusing offenders entering treatment through the Criminal Justice System
PSA6 - to increase voluntary and community engagement, especially amongst those at risk of social exclusion.
Crime and Disorder Reduction/Community Safety Partnerships performance is vital to the successful delivery of these targets. This is particularly the case in relation to PSA1 - to reduce crime by 15%, and further in high crime areas, by 2007/08. The Home Office has asked each Home Office Regional Director to agree specific targets with each of the partnerships within their localities to support delivery of the overall PSA1 target.
The new PSA1 target – to reduce crime by 15%, and further in high crime areas, by 2007/08 – is substantially different from the previous Home Office crime reduction target. The previous Home Office target set individual national targets for burglary, vehicle crime and robbery, and required the gap between the highest crime areas and others to reduce.
The new target gives local partnerships much more flexibility to decide for themselves where their crime reduction priorities lie, taking account of local circumstances.
The guidance explains how the new PSA1 will be measured, the definition of 'high crime areas' and the expectations that the new PSA1 has of partnership performance in reducing crime. It includes the reductions that Government Offices will be proposing to each partnership, using a tiered or banded approach based on the quartile approach with which partnerships are already familiar.
The guidance also includes a worked example, based on real crime figures, of the way in which targets for specific crimes can reduce overall crime. The Home Office has developed a spreadsheet, available from iQuanta, which partnerships can use to work out the impact a reduction in a specific crime has had on the overall target.
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Last update: 14 December 2004