Resources

Where measures do require resources, the case for investment can be strengthened by:

• Demonstrating public concern/demand, eg as measured in local or national surveys.(Link to HO Research Findings 83: Concern about crime)

• Getting people to vote with their feet, for example by advertising hotspots with the worst robbery rate record.

• Demonstrating the impact the issue has on staff. (The fear of crime may be having an adverse effect on people working in or around a particular hotspot location.)

• Demonstrating wider benefits (eg impact on property values)

• Making links with other local and national policy objectives, eg

  • Youth inclusion

  • Neighbourhood renewal

  • School attainment

  • School attendance

• Access to/take up of further education or training.
  

Making these links may help to open avenues to a wider range of funding sources.

Funds have been set aside in the recent comprehensive spending review to support local robbery reduction initiatives in areas where robbery poses a particular problem. Details of how those funds are to be used can be found in the ‘Who’s Doing What?’ section.

Other relevant strands of the crime reduction programme are listed below:

CCTV

Targeted policing

Youth Inclusion