Crime Reduction & Community Safety: Recording Crime, Community Policing, and Crime Reduction Strategies

Crime Reduction &
Community Safety

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1: RECORDING CRIME..............................................................................................3
The way police record crimes and manner in which it this differs from the Crime Survey for
England & Wales.........................................................................................................................3
Strengths and weaknesses of using police recorded crime and CSEW to measure crime rates
accurately.....................................................................................................................................4
SECTION 2: THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNITY POLICING..............................................5
Analysing the long term and short term impacts of crime on victims and communities............5
Analysing impact of news media on communities’ perceptions of crime and its relationship
with disparity between fear of crime and actual crime................................................................6
Explaining the philosophy of community policing and associated legislation............................6
Evaluating the impact of multi- agency policing.........................................................................7
SECTION 3: EFFECTIVENESS OF CRIME REDUCTION STRATEGIES................................8
Identifying one local and one national crime reduction strategy and evaluating their
effectiveness for increasing safety and fear of crime
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Crime can be defined as illegal activities that are initiated by person for which it can be
punished by law as it lead in causing harm or negative impact on individual living within the
society. Likewise, in recent scenario, there are around approximately 6.43 million crimes
recorded by the police in the United Kingdom. However, when it is compared with rest of the
world, the crime rate is low that lead in providing peaceful environment to people to live
(Borrion and et.al., 2020).
This report has represented crucial information pertaining to record crime and philosophy of
community policing. It has also covered detail of Effectiveness of Crime Reduction Strategies in
reducing crime and offering safe environment to people living across United Kingdom.
SECTION 1: RECORDING CRIME
The way police record crimes and manner in which it this differs from the Crime Survey for
England & Wales
Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) - and National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) are
two organization govern the police recording practice. These rules act as providing national
standard pertaining to the way offence will be recorded and notifiable by police force across
England and Wales (Ratcliffe, 2018). Furthermore, the crime recording process used by policy is
divided into six stages that can be explained in detailed as follows:
1. Incident reporting and recording: It is the report that maintained by police related to all
issue face by people including welfare, crime, public safety and many others. Policy
makes use of many ways to record the incident such as- witness is encouraged to tell
police officer about the what, why and how crime has occurred. Moreover, the incident
log and an incident log (sometimes referred to as a command-and-control log) and a
record on the force crime system is being maintained by policy (Lawson, Rogerson, and
Barnacle, 2018). Hence, opening code is being allotted to incident log that clearly explain
about the nature of incident and the way it can be make better.
2. Deciding if a crime should be recorded — It is very important that the crime should be
recorded. The information of the crime must be justified for recording but this cannot be

in all circumstances. There are certain forces which are recorded for the crime helping to
creating value such that all the calls are recorded and this helps in knowing that the crime
is being recorded in most effective and efficient manner possible (Ogutu and et.al., 2018).
3. Closing incident records — The incident records are closed when the case is solved.
The case is solved which helps in understanding that how effectively the case has been
solved. The incident records are being closed when once the case takes the plunge as to
how the crime is taken into consideration. The police records the crime and helps in
demoting that how effectively the steps are taken for resolving the crime which has taken
place (Zou, Lin, Yang and et.al., 2021).
4. Recording a crime — The recording of the crime is one of the major points of
consideration which helps in denoting that the crime has to be taken into consideration on
serious matters such that recording should also help in solving the case in appropriate
manner. The crime is recorded by the two major sources which are — Telephone
operated Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW), Crime Survey for England and Wales
(CSEW) Police recorded crime.
5. Closing crime records — The crime records are being closed when once they are closed
and this helps in knowing that how effectively and in appropriate manner the crime has
been recorded with all they essential details of the crime being mentioned.
Strengths and weaknesses of using police recorded crime and CSEW to measure crime rates
accurately.
There are certain strengths and weaknesses of using police recorded crime which is described as
follows -
Strengths of using police recoded crime — The police recoded crime helps in providing an
accurate picture and volume of the crime type. There are certain demands which are made on the
police which help in solving the case and provide an insight to what the case consists of along
with the efforts which are made in policing. These are the strengths of using police recoded time
(Greytak and Moore, 2018).
Weaknesses of using police recorded crime — The parties or participants may not be truthful
while recoding the crime which questions their validity. It becomes difficult to judge and analyse