A Guide to Community Safety & Crime Reduction Legislation

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Introduced multi-agency partnerships of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) and Youth Offending Teams (YOTs)

3 Key principals:

1. The purpose of the youth justice system is to cut off offending with a focus on prevention.
2. The Police, Local authority and community must work in partnership to cut crime.
3. Local authorities and other public bodies must consider the crime and disorder implications of all their decisions (for example in planning).

Each CDRP required to undertake a crime and disorder audit and strategy every 3 years

This act enlarged the group of partners required to work on community safety, adding Police Authorities, Fire Authorities and Primary Care Trusts

It also required CDRPs to include substance misuse in their work and allowed mergers with DAATs (Drugs and Alcohol Action Teams)

The Act requires CDRPs and DAATs to consider anti-social behaviour and the local environment within their audits and strategies.

Aims to ensure that local policing reflects local needs and is accountable to its communities.

Legislation / Policy

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Introduced the following

• Expansion of fixed penalty notices
• Schools, local authorities and YOTs can offer packages of support and sanctions to parents
• Police powers to close crack houses
• Restrictions on the use of air rifles and replica guns
• Offence to sell spray cans to under 16s
• Local authorities stronger powers against fly tipping, graffiti and fly posting
• Environmental health officers more power to shut down noisy clubs
• Improve the operation of ASBOs
• Powers for the police to disperse groups behaving in an anti-social way
  

Gives effect to the reforms of Children's services envisaged by 'Every Child Matters' which aims for every child whatever their background or circumstances, to have the support they need to:

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well being