Who Can Help

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Partners

What can they contribute?

What’s in it for them?

Police

  • Data/intelligence
  • Law enforcement
  • Public reassurance
  • Advice on designing out crime
  • Problem-oriented policing
  • Intelligence-led policing
  • Schools liaison
  • Act as witnesses or evidence gatherers in supporting cases brought against problem tenants by local authorities & social landlords
  • Incorporate tackling youth disorder/anti-social behaviour objectives in Local Policing Plan/Force Strategy.
  • Police-community liaison
  • Apply for Anti-Social Behaviour Order
  • Can pick up children who are truanting from schools & return them to school or another safe place (in schemes agreed with the local education authority) under new powers of the CDA Act 1998.
  • Help from other agencies to reduce crime
  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
  • Potential impact on overall recorded crime
  • Responding to public concern
  • Public confidence in the police increases

Local Education Authority/ schools

  • Truancy & exclusion data
  • Alternative education/ vocational qualifications
  • Targeted work with persistent truants excluded pupils & young people at risk of offending
  • Targeted work with adults who have poor literacy, numeracy & IT skills, are unemployed and are at risk of offending
  • Education Welfare Service responsible for truants & excludees
  • Support from others to cater for/engage disaffected young people
  • Help in meeting literacy/numeracy etc targets
  • Links with citizenship programmes etc.
  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
  • Reductions in school truancy & exclusions
  • Reductions in school vandalism/bullying
  • Reassured pupils

LA Social Services

  • Targeted work with young people at risk of offending, including young people in the ‘looked after’ sector.
  • Data on vulnerable people e.g. older people & people with mental health problems

 

 

  • Compliance with DoH /Audit Commission advice to develop more emphasis on prevention and family support
  • Multi-agency support for vulnerable families
  • Fulfilling requirements of section 17 / Best Value.
  • Proposed new target to improve life chances of young people in the ‘looked after’ sector.

LA Youth Service and voluntary youth services

  • Youth diversion projects
  • Taps into young people’s interests.
  • Access to additional resources

Probation Service

  • Work to challenge offending behaviour.
  • Community service contribution to social & situational responses to tackling anti-social behaviour
  • Mobilising other agencies for effective interventions to reduce rates of reconviction.
  • Opportunities to enhance offenders’ basic skills/employability.

Youth Offending Teams

  • Intensive work with young offenders/young people at risk of offending, e.g. Youth Inclusion Projects/ interventions linked to the range of new orders introduced in the Crime & Disorder Act.
  • Mobilising other agencies for criminality prevention/ early intervention.
  • Opportunities to enhance young peoples’ skills & employability.

LA Regeneration

  • Social & economic data
  • Anti-social behaviour reduction measures and socially inclusive programmes which impact positively on crime reduction as part of wider strategies for regeneration/neighbourhood renewal
  • Less anti-social behaviour will help to foster neighbourhood renewal, vibrant & sustainable communities.
  • Fulfilling the requirements of Section 17/ Best Value

LA Environmental Services

  • Rapid removal of abandoned vehicles, using powers in Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978.
  • Noise / pollution control
  • Graffiti removal
  • Street cleansing
  • Improved lighting
  • Maintenance of open spaces
  • Prevention of repeat incidents
  • Noise / pollution control
  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value

 

LA Planning

  • Can require a crime impact analysis in any planning application
  • Crime prevention guidelines for developers
  • Design improvements
  • When neighbourhoods are rebuilt or new build
  • Better planned neighbourhoods may experience less crime/anti-social behaviour problems
  • Fulfilling the requirements of Section 17/ Best Value
  • Commitment in recent comprehensive spending review to require local authorities to screen planning applications for their crime implications with help from the police.
LA Authority Transport Department

Public transport operators /

Railtrack/

British Transport Police

  • Data/intelligence
  • Law enforcement
  • Public reassurance
  • Advice on designing out crime
  • Problem-oriented policing
  • Local Integrated Transport Plan incorporating security & safety
  • Reduced anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations & bus stops
  • Increased passenger security/satisfaction.

LA Fire & Rescue

  • Initiatives to reduce & respond to arson incidents involving vehicles, litter and vacant properties.
  • Powers to require rapid removal of vehicles deemed to pose a fire risk.
  • Arson data
  • Hoax calls data
  • Reduction arson incidents
  • Reduction in hoax calls

 

  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value

LA Housing /

Registered Social

Landlords

 

  • Gather & share information
  • Effective neighbourhood design and management.
  • Housing stock security
  • Good housing lettings policies aimed at meeting housing need & achieving stable communities where anti-social behaviour problems by youngsters are minimised.
  • Ensure that all tenancies have effective clauses to deal with anti-social behaviour & crime committed by young people, stipulating that breach can result in the tenant losing possession of his/her home
  • Establish dedicated specialist teams to tackle anti-social behaviour
  • Target tenants at risk of committing anti-social behaviour by providing support & resettlement packages to change their behaviour and sustain their tenancies.
  • Tenant management in social housing, incorporating community capacity building, and policies & procedures for tackling anti-social behaviour & crime
  • Role for area managers & neighbourhood wardens in providing information / identifying and dealing with nuisance
  • Victim & witness support
  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
  • Increased housing lets, with more rental income, due to reductions in anti-social behaviour problems

 

  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
  • Local communities have increased confidence in their housing service
  • Lower repair costs, especially voids & vandalism

LA Leisure Services

  • Role of Park Rangers services in giving advice / encouraging reporting / gathering information.
  • Targeted outreach/diversion activities
  • Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
  • Increased access to joint funding opportunities e.g. regeneration
  • Increased individual & community confidence, contributing to improvements in health, employment & educational attainment
  • Increased use of local leisure facilities, generating increased income.

Health Authorities and Trusts

 

  • Information on nos. of vehicle-related incidents/staff assaults reported as part of risk management system.
  • Assist in development of services for youngsters with drug, alcohol & substance misuse or mental health problems
  • Facilitate parent support groups/behavioural modification programmes
  • Cleaned data on accident & emergency statistics; drug/alcohol abuse; teenage pregnancies; mental health

 

  • Fulfilling requirements of NHS Executive Controls Assurance Standard For Security Management
  • Incorporation of the A & E Dept. into community policing/crime prevention activity
  • Reductions in staff assaults
  • Pooling resources

Drug Action Teams

  • Referral and treatment programmes
  • Commitment to reduce levels of repeat offending amongst drug & substance abusing offenders by 25% by 2005.

Local Media

  • Awareness raising
  • Deterrence
  • Naming and shaming
  • Data to identify suspicious cases
  • Positive news stories
  • Public interest

Neighbourhood watch/ crime prevention panels

  • Awareness raising
  • Property marking
  • Intelligence-gathering
  • Responds to public concern
  • LA Authority Transport Department
  • Public transport operators / Railtrack/

British Transport Police

  • Data/intelligence
  • Law enforcement
  • Public reassurance
  • Advice on designing out crime
  • Problem-oriented policing
  • Local integrated Transport Plan incorporating security & safety
  • Reduced youth types of anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations & bus stops & transport interchanges
  • Increased passenger security/satisfaction.

Victim Support

Practical & emotional support to victims of crime

  • Keep victim perspective on local partnership agenda

Courts

  • Data on processing young offenders from arrest to sentence
  • Raised community confidence in the Criminal Justice System
  • Assistance of local communities in securing successful prosecutions

Youth Offending Teams

  • Youth Crime Offending data by offence, ethnicity, age, gender
  • Recidivism data of young offenders
  • Rates of offending by children in need & those looked after by LA
  • Persistent Young Offending data
  • Youth Offending cases dealt with in the Youth Court & Crown Court
  • Programme interventions
  • Prevention of youth offending and re-offending
  • Swift administration of justice

 

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