Crime & property
How to run your own campaign to reduce vehicle crime
The Home Office has produced a new training pack to help practitioners and community champions to run a successful vehicle crime reduction campaign. The training pack contains practical advice and tips including writing newsletters and press releases, engaging the support of agencies such as the local council and how to evaluate the success of your campaign.
Title: Running a campaign to reduce vehicle crime
Author: Home Office
Number of pages: 16
Date published: September 2005
Availability:
Download campaign guide (English)
PDF 467Kb.
Download campaign guide (Welsh)
PDF 443Kb.
Getting started
So that you can carry out a successful vehicle crime reduction campaign in your area you will need to devise a plan and answer some of these questions:
Is vehicle crime a problem in your area?
Are you concerned about it?
Do you or your community group want to do something about it?
If the answers to the above is “yes” you will need to think about the following:
What are you prepared to do about it?
Who are you going to involve?
Can you get key people and other residents interested? The list of partners could include:
other local community groups
young people
local authority staff
police
community members
Your beat officer will be able to let you have local vehicle crime figures.
Once you are happy that you can bring together the level of support you need you can start planning your campaign.
Think about:
How will you plan it?
How long will it run for?
What resources are available and what others will you need?
Is there a need to raise funds? If so, how will you raise them?
How you will monitor and evaluate the project?
How you will know your campaign was successful?
Getting a copy of the campaign guide
Download one of the files below.
Download Running a campaign to reduce vehicle crime (English)
PDF 476KbDownload Running a campaign to reduce vehicle crime (Welsh)
PDF 443Kb
The full training pack also includes a CD-Rom showing how a group successfully used the website resource materials to reduce vehicle crime on their estate. It is too big to go on this website, but copies can be obtained free of charge from the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS), by e-mail to info@tpas.org.uk, telephone 07870 747361 or by writing to TPAS, 5th Floor, Trafford House, Chester Road, Manchester, M32 0RS.
Last update: 16 September 2005