Crime Reduction and Community Safety

CRIME REDUCTION AND
COMMUNITY SAFETY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
SECTION 1.....................................................................................................................................1
SECTION 2.....................................................................................................................................3
Section-3: Effectiveness of Crime Reduction Strategies.................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Crime reduction and community safety are two most important factors that are required
to be focused upon so that occurrence of crime can be reduced and people of the community can
be protected in an appropriate manner (Crawford and Evans, 2017). Crime reduction and
community safety strategies helps in reducing crime, protect people from becoming a victim of
crime and disorder. Government has developed various legislations and policies for it and has set
some responsibilities of different organizations for protection of society and crime reduction.
This report will lay emphasis upon scenario of crime reduction statistics of England and Wales in
the 12- month period ending June 2020. This report has focused upon ways in which crime is
recorded, impact of crime on victims and communities, role of the public services involved in
community safety and crime reduction, and reviewing effectiveness of crime reduction
strategies.
SECTION 1
See the police recorded statistics put forward in the scenario – how do police record crimes and
how does this differ from the Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW)?
Crime recording is an extremely important procedure that help police to identify whether
there is change in crime rate or not, whether all kinds of crime occurring within city are being
recorded or not. There is a fixed appropriate procedure of recording crime by the police.
 First of all, any kind of crime is first of all recorded by police on the basis of statement
give to them by victims (Tilley and Sidebottom, eds., 2017). Then home secretary asks
chief constables to provide statistical data of crime.
 All the crime statistics are collected by home office on the basis of data returns submitted
by the police force. Then they check for any kind of anomalies within the data before
submitting it to office of National Statistics.
 Before publishing data UK Statistics Authority authorize production and publication of
official statistic for safeguarding correct official data.
 This helps UK Statistics Authority to authorise data provided by police records. UK
Statistics Authority further has authority of removing or restoring any police-recorded
crime data from official national statistics records in order to maintain authenticity of the
data.
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