Community Safety

Community safety is seen as being concerned with people, communities and organisations, including families, victims and risk groups, as well as with attempting to reduce particular types of crime and the fear of crime. Community safety should be seen as the legitimate concern of all in the local community.

Achieving community safety

This became a statutory requirement under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. This sponsored the creation in 1999 of 376 statutory local community safety partnerships throughout England and Wales. Each partnership is required to conduct an audit of crime and disorder every three years within its area, consult the local community on the findings, and then deliver a strategic response the Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy.