Crime Reduction and Community Safety through Effective Policing Methods

Crime reduction and community safety

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task..................................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference list...................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
In the present scenario, the rate of criminal activities is increasing rapidly. In the past few years,
the society has faced a number of criminal activities, which has affected them in several ways. In
the United Kingdom, the number of crime rates is quite high in comparison to other countries.
Therefore, the government and police force of the country requires taking severe actions in order
to reduce the crime rate in the country (Hales, 2018). In this assignment, the different methods
that the police force of the country makes use of in order to record the crime will be highlighted.
Furthermore, the information, which can be utilized in order to measure the performance and
trends of the police, will also be discussed. The project will shed lights upon the effectiveness of
the different ways of recording the criminal activities.
Task
1. Analyze how public and directive expectations are met through current policing
methods. For this consider the current methods for recording crime, how the information
can be used to measure trends and police performance. Also, how having the information
will help to direct policing operations.
The UK police force makes use of a number of methods for recording the different criminal
activities. Some of the significant methods are:
Incident Recording and Reporting
In this method, the police records the crime based on the first information being provided by an
eye witness of the crime, the victim or any individual related to them. The criminal activity can
be both taken in written and recorded form (HMICFRS, 2018).
Deciding if the Crime must be recorded or not
In this case, the UK police record the crime after verifying if the report is worth being reported
or not. This happens when there is very little or no evidence available for the crime.
Recording as per the offense