Terms of Reference for the Crime and Communities Review
Engaging communities in fighting crime
A policy review reporting to the Home Secretary, the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families, the Secretary of State for Justice, the
Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of
State for Communities and Local Government.
The aim is to understand how local communities, the police, the local
criminal justice agencies and other local partners can best work together
to:
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reduce crime in their areas
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raise community confidence in local agencies
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lower the fear of crime.
A key strand of the review would analyse how to engage individuals,
including young people, across the whole range of issues that affect their
feelings of safety in the community.
The review should make recommendations on improving local accountability,
increasing local engagement (including willingness to support law
enforcement through the provision of evidence) and developing new
approaches to problem solving.
The review shall take full account of the Ten Year Youth Strategy, the work
already underway as part of Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s review of policing, the
current roll out of Neighbourhood Policing and work of the National
Policing Improvement Agency in this area, and shall examine how best to
build on the success of Neighbourhood Policing and transfer good practice
across all crime fighting agencies including local authority, the Third
Sector etc.
The review team will be drawn from all departments with an interest and led
from the Cabinet Office by Louise Casey.
The review will report by June 2008.
