Crime Reduction and Community Safety

Crime reduction and
Community safety

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Describe how crime is recorded by the police. .....................................................................3
P2 Explain how the Crime Survey for England and Wales offers an alternative method of
measuring crime..........................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Describe the impact of crime and disorder on victims..........................................................5
P4 Explain the impact of crime and disorder on communities...................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Outline the main legislation that sets out organisations’ responsibilities in crime reduction.
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P6 Explain the role and responsibilities of a range of public services and related agencies in
addressing crime and disorder.....................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P7 Outline the factors that underpin crime reduction strategies.................................................8
P8 Describe a range of local and national strategies used to tackle crime and disorder.............8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERNCES:................................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Crime is the illegal activity that perform by a individual or group of person in order to
fulfil their purpose. For their activity government punish the person or group of person in order
to reduce criminal activities (Braga, and et. al., 2019). It is not good for society because it harms
people. It simply a behaviour that violates law and non-acceptable by the community. It is very
important for the community that crime decreases, for that purpose a separate department is
established in order to punish and reduce criminal activities. Every country has different and
department in which they make their laws in order to reduce the criminal activities and punish to
the persons who are responsible for that crime. This report covers method of measuring crime by
crime survey for England and Wales. It also covers the impact of crime on society.
MAIN BODY
TASK
P1 Describe how crime is recorded by the police.
It is identified that the crime recording system of England and Wales is the best system.
The police force of England and Wales is recording the crime because they make ensure that the
victim of crime get all services that they deserved (Wen, Hockenberry and Cummings, 2019).
They record crime because they want to inform government so that they should make policies in
order to reduce the crime activities. According to The Police Act 1996 Section 44 (2 and 3),
police of England and Wales used a process in order to record the crime that are mentioned
below:
 The first step is the police should record and reporting to the incident. That means they
firstly go the incident place where crime is done and take all collect all sources which can
be give the information about crime at that incident. They can be victims, third parties
and witnesses.
 After going at that place they should take an information so that they decide it is the
crime that need to recorded or not. Sometimes it is found that the crime is not need to
record.
 It is the time when police take a decision that they have to record the crime and for that
purpose they need to close incident report (Lawson, Rogerson and Barnacle, 2018). For