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Partners
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What can they contribute?
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What’s in it for them? |
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Police |
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Intelligence-led policing
- Act as witnesses or evidence gatherers in supporting cases brought
against problem tenants by local authorities & social landlords
- Incorporate tackling disorder/anti-social behaviour objectives in
Local Policing Plan/Force Strategy.
- 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.
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- Help from other agencies to reduce & prevent crime
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Potential impact on overall recorded crime
- Responding to public concern
- Public confidence in the police increases
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Local Education Authority/ schools |
- 'Alternative education/ vocational qualifications
- Targeted work with persistent truants excluded pupils & young
people at risk of perpetrating racially motivated crime/incidents
- 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
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- 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
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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
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- 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.
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LA Youth Service and voluntary youth services |
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- Taps into young people’s interests.
- Access to additional resources
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Probation Service |
- Work to challenge offending behaviour.
- Community service contribution to social & situational
responses to tackling anti-social behaviour
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- Mobilising other agencies for effective interventions to reduce
rates of reconviction.
- Opportunities to enhance offenders’ basic skills/employability.
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Youth Offending Teams
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- 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.
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- Mobilising other agencies for criminality prevention/ early
intervention.
- Opportunities to enhance young peoples’ skills/employability.
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LA Regeneration |
- Anti-social behaviour reduction measures and socially inclusive
programmes which impact positively on crime reduction as part of
wider strategies for regeneration/neighbourhood renewal
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- Less anti-social behaviour will help to foster neighbourhood
renewal, vibrant & sustainable communities.
- Fulfilling the requirements of Section 17/ Best Value
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LA Environmental Services |
- Noise / pollution control
- Maintenance of open spaces
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- Prevention of repeat incidents
- Noise / pollution control
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
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LA Planning |
- Can require a crime impact analysis in any planning application
- Crime prevention guidelines for developers
- Design improvements when neighbourhoods are redeveloped or are
- new build
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- 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.
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LA Authority Transport Department
Public transport operators /
Railtrack/
British Transport Police
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- Data/intelligence
- Law enforcement
- Public reassurance
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Local integrated Transport Plan incorporating security & safety
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- Reduced anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations & bus
stops, e
- Increased passenger security/satisfaction.
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LA Fire & Rescue
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- 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.
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- Reduction arson incidents
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
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LA Housing /
Registered Social
Landlords
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- Gather & share information
- Effective neighbourhood design and management. Housing stock
security
- Resolve neighbour disputes
- Good housing lettings policies aimed at meeting housing need &
achieving stable communities where anti-social behaviour problems
are minimised.
- Introductory tenancies & starter tenancy agreements in
consultation with local communities, stipulating types of
anti-social behaviour which will not be tolerated & that breach
can result in the tenant losing possession of his/her home.
- Ensure that all tenancies have effective clauses to deal with
anti-social behaviour.
- 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.
- Place people who have been evicted or who have abandoned housing
due to anti-social behaviour in suitable accommodation, where they
receive intensive services to change offending behaviour.
- Tenant management in social housing, incorporating community
capacity building, and policies & procedures for tackling
anti-social behaviour.
- Role for area managers & neighbourhood wardens in providing
information / identifying and dealing with nuisance
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- 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
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LA Leisure Services |
- Role of Park Rangers services in giving advice / encouraging
reporting / gathering information.
- Targeted outreach/diversion activities
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- 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.
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Health Authorities and Trusts
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- Information on nos. of vehicle-related incidents reported as part
of risk management system.
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- 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
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Drug Action Teams
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- Referral and treatment programmes
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- Commitment to reduce levels of repeat offending amongst drug &
substance abusing offenders by 25% by 2005.
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Local Media
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- Data to identify suspicious cases
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- Public interest
- create a climate of support for action aimed at reducing racially
motivated incidents
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Neighbourhood watch/ crime prevention panels |
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- Responds to public concern
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LA Authority Transport Department
Public transport operators /
Railtrack/
British Transport Police
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- Data/intelligence
- Law enforcement
- Public reassurance
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Local integrated Transport Plan incorporating security & safety
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- Reduced anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations & bus
stops, e
- Increased passenger security/satisfaction.
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Victim Support |
- Support for victims
- Help in preventing revictimisation
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- Keep victim perspective on local partnership agenda
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Race Equality Councils
http://www.cre.gov.uk/about/aboutcre.html
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- Data/intelligence
- Resources
- take legal action against racially discriminatory advertisements,
and against organisations that attempt to pressurise or instruct
others to discriminate .
- advise or assist people with complaints about racial
discrimination, harassment or abuse;
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Assistance in achieving
Duties of :
Working towards the elimination of racial discrimination and promote
equality of opportunity
Encouraging good relations between people from different racial and
ethnic backgrounds
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Courts |
- Data/intelligence
- Support to prosecution witnesses
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- Raised community confidence in the Criminal Justice System
- Assistance of local communities in securing successful prosecutions
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