Drawing up a local strategy: Generating ideas

The next stage involves generating ideas on how to tackle the agreed priorities. It is possible to intervene at many different points to reduce the chances of a crime taking place. For example, interventions may involve:

• Introducing building design and security measures

• Targeted enforcement

• Targeted work with young people at risk of becoming involved in arson

Partners can produce a surprising number of options based on their knowledge of the area and their awareness of their own roles and responsibilities within the community. In plotting the different options it is helpful to distinguish between long and short term measures and between those that relate to:

• Offenders and/or those at risk of offending

• The victims or target

• The physical environment

• The social environment

Generating ideas can also be helped by going systematically through the generic list of interventions set out under ‘Interventions’ in the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity Sections.