Assembling Your Alcohol and Crime Team
Many Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships will want to tackle local alcohol-related
problems, where joint working makes a real difference. Your focus will be on achieving
sustainable reductions in alcohol-related crime at the neighbourhood or community
level.
Section 5 of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998 provides that the local authority should
act in co-operation with the police force, the probation service and the health authority
in producing a local crime & disorder strategy. Such partnerships offer the best foundation
and framework for tackling alcohol-related crime. As well as these statutory partners,
other relevant agencies should be involved including;
Crime & Disorder Partnerships should also consider offering the local Crown Prosecution
Service and magistrates’ courts service an opportunity to develop an alcohol–related
crime strategy.
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