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 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 & 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

Local Education Authority/ schools

  • Truancy & exclusion data
  • '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
  • 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

  • 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 redeveloped or are
  • 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, e
    • 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
  • 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

 

  • 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

 

  • Secure car parks
  • Information on nos. of vehicle-related incidents reported as part of risk management system.

 

  • 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
    • create a climate of support for action aimed at reducing racially motivated incidents

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 anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations & bus stops, e
    • Increased passenger security/satisfaction.

Victim Support

  • Support for victims
  • Help in preventing revictimisation
  • Keep victim perspective on local partnership agenda

Race Equality Councils

http://www.cre.gov.uk/about/aboutcre.html

 

  • 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;

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

Courts

  • Data/intelligence
  • Support to prosecution witnesses
  • Raised community confidence in the Criminal Justice System
  • Assistance of local communities in securing successful prosecutions

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