Tackling anti-social behaviour

In March 2010, a cross-government and cross-agency report: Safe and Confident Neighbourhoods Strategy: Next steps in neighbourhood policing, sets out expectations for the way in which the police, the criminal justice system and other local partners can work together to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. It acknowledges the importance of local flexibility and autonomy and recognises that the police alone cannot tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and need to work in partnership. Commitments set out in the strategy include:

• funding levels that maintain current levels of warranted officers and PCSOs until 2013
• professionalising the role of PCSOs through the introduction of an accreditation structure
• changing the name of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to ‘Community Safety Partnerships’
• starting a new anti-social behaviour case management system, which will establish national case management principles for anti-social behaviour
• introducing a ‘National Victims Service’, offering victims of crime joined-up care and support based on the impact of crime they have suffered.

For more information, please access the Improvement Network briefing: 'Safe and Confident Neighbourhoods Strategy' (PDF file, 7 pages, 476 KB).

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