Sections 5 and 6
Section 6 requires that responsible authorities shall carry out a review of the
levels and patterns of crime and disorder in their area and prepare and publish an
analysis of that review.
The Crime and Disorder Audit is to inform the partnership of crime and disorder
in their area and to formulate a strategy under the Act on how the partnership will
look to deliver and sustain reductions in crime and disorder locally.
The overall aim of sections 5 and 6 is to ensure that responsible authorities:
are aware of the nature of crime and disorder in their area;
are able to identify the methods of developing and implementing effective action
to help reduce that crime and disorder; and
formulate and publish a crime and disorder reduction strategy setting out the
findings of the audit and putting the strategy into practice
The awareness of local needs requires an understanding both of the nature of crime
and disorder and its causes in order to develop an effective programme to help deal
with it. Therefore, the audit should look to develop the wider perspective of how
crime impacts on the community and how the community can help impact on the crime.
Therefore, the audit should not rely on only one or two sources of information but
must instead look to a range of sources from local organisations, community
groups and national sources.
The Act makes it clear that the duty to ensure that the work of tackling crime
and disorder locally gets under way rests jointly on the police and local authorities
or as the Act entitles them, the 'responsible authorities'. But the Act provides
the ability for partnerships to be inclusive of the full range of agencies and individuals
in their area.
Click here for a comprehensive table showing
responsible authorities, co-operating bodies and invitees
to participate. This is taken from the 'Statutory
Partnerships: Pathfinders Sites Report' published by the Home Office in 1999 (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cdact/pathmain.pdf).
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