Identifying Problems: A checklist

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ISSUE

INFORMATION SOURCES

1.What types of burglary are occurring?

Attempts

Burglary without loss

Burglary with loss

Distraction burglary

 

 

 

 

 

Police (data / analysis of recorded crimes)

Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators

Landlords, Residents.

Community surveys/ consultations

(Information on unrecorded and non-reported crimes.)

 

Crime prevention panels.

 

 

Insurance companies

2. Where is crime occurring?

  • Are there particular hotspots (wards or streets)?
  • Are there particular types of location? e.g. houses backing onto open space.
  • Do locations share common physical features? E.g. ease of access/egress

 

 

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

NW co-ordinators

Crime prevention panels

Community surveys/ consultations

(Information on unrecorded and unreported crimes)

Insurance contacts: (risk assessments for different areas.

3. When is it occurring?

Is the risk of crime higher at certain times of the:

Day

Week

Year?

What trends can be detected?

 

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

Crime prevention panels

Housing managers

Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators

Community surveys/ consultations

(Information on unrecorded and unreported crimes)

4. How often?

What are the numbers and rates?

How do crime rates compare with other areas?

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

 

NW co-ordinators

Crime prevention panels

Community consultations

(Information on unrecorded crimes)

5. What is the impact?

What concerns the public most?

What is the impact on victims?

What items tend to be stolen?

What is the value of items stolen?

 

 

 

 

Community consultations

(Focus groups / Fear of crime surveys ,etc)

Housing Dept surveys

Police (data/analysis of recorded crimes)

Reparation schemes (feedback from victims)

General practitioners/ health authority/ hospitals, dispensing chemists

(e.g. feedback on stress-related illness)

Local insurance contacts

(Data on claims)

6 Who or what is the victim?

Do victims share common characteristics (eg age, gender, race /ethnic origin, students, type of property, household make-up,).

What types of houses are most vulnerable? eg student flats,

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

Insurance companies

Housing depts and associations

Voluntary orgs

7 Are repeats occurring?

 

Police (data / analysis of recorded crimes)

Insurance companies

Landlords, Residents

8 How are they doing it?

Do crimes tend to be committed in a certain way?

May give clues to the number /sophistication of

Offenders involved.

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

  1. Illicit markets

How are goods being disposed of?

What proportion of stolen goods are recovered?

Can patterns be detected in when and where stolen goods are recovered?

Police Intelligence

Crimestoppers

Trading Standards

 

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